Date:20/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/20/stories/2008082052951600.htm

Business

Corporation for skill development soon

NEW DELHI: The Union Government, in order to give boost to the manufacturing sector, is likely to form National Skill Development Corporation — a joint venture between the government and industrial associations for skill development of workers — within a month. “Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has indicated that the NSDC could come up by September 1,” CII President K. V. Kamath told reporters here on Tuesday.