New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Customized Crash Course programme for COVID-19 Frontline workers’ with a short film on Friday, June 18.
Addressing the event via video conferencing, PM Modi said, “Coronavirus is still very much prevalent among us. We need to remain vigilant.”
Stressing the need for a skilled manpower pool as key to achieving all goals, the prime minister said, “One lakh youth will be trained under this course and will be completed in 2-3 months. Top experts of our country have designed crash courses. Critical care, sample collection skill, re-skill and upskill is the mantra. This pandemic has shown us. Corona warriors have re-skilled themselves.”
The programme aims to skill and upskill more than one lakh COVID warriors in the country. The PIB released the short film during the launch of the programme via a tweet.
Watch this short film on ‘Customized Crash Course programme for #Covid19 Frontline workers
The programme aims to skill and upskill over one lakh Covid warriors across the country. pic.twitter.com/5eeMzm3UPV
— PIB India (@PIB_India) June 18, 2021
Training will be imparted to COVID warriors in six customised job roles namely home care support, basic care support, advanced care support, emergency care support, sample collection support, and medical equipment support.
The course has been designed as a special one under the central component of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0, with a total financial outlay of Rs. 276 crore. The programme will create skilled non-medical healthcare workers to fill the present and future needs of manpower in the health sector.
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