"It was the money that attracted us to the training," says Jitendra (he gives only his first name), an assistant shuttering carpenter trainee. He is talking about Mission Kushal Karmi, the Delhi government's scheme to improve construction workers' skills. The state government has promised to pay ₹4,200 to every worker who completes the 15day training programme, which was launched on July 6 with the aim of upgrading the skills of 200,000 construction workers in a year.
Unemployed for three months, Jitendra and his brothers who came to Delhi from Madhya Pradesh with their families in tow to work as construction workers-were among the first to enrol in the inaugural batch. They were lured more by the money than the "skilled worker certificate" and labour card. But after completing the training, the brothers are unemployed again.
Altogether 200 people enrolled for the scheme. Training for the first batch of the pilot project ended on July 26. Those who cleared the assessment test have received the skill certificate and labour card but are awaiting the *4,200 wage-loss compensation.
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