Adventure-Sports Training will be Given to one Thousand Youth Every Year in Haryana

• 24 Jan 2022

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• On January 23, 2022, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khater announced that 1,000 youth of the state would be trained in adventure sports every year by the state government so that they could get employment.

Key Points

• The Chief Minister made this announcement while addressing the youth at the concluding ceremony of the training program named 'Yuva Udyami' under 'Milkha Singh Adventure Sports Club' organized by the Sports and Youth Affairs Department of Haryana.
• Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khater said that in addition adventure-sports would be started in the hills of Kalesar, Dhosi, Aravalli and Mewat, where three to five 'adventure-sports camps' would be organized every year. An amount of two crore rupees will be spent every year on training in the above camps.
• It may be mentioned that such camps are being organized in Morni, Panchkula. During this training program youth between 16 to 29 years of Morni area were trained about entrepreneurship related to 'Adventure-Sports and Home-stay'.
• Calling upon the youth to become 'job givers' instead of 'job seekers', the Chief Minister said that the state government would endeavor to uplift the poorest of the poor by organizing Antyodaya Rozgar Melas.
• The state is sensitizing the poor about credit facilities and various avenues of self-employment, which include starting poultry farms, fish farming, animal husbandry, etc. to enhance their income.