Skill Letts
VIEWS, VOICE & WAYS OF SKILLS
An in house journal of Additional Skill Acquisition Programme
Kollam, with its long coast line, inland lakes and many sources of water body, is well known for its Cashew industry and is rightly known as‘ Cashew Capital of the World’. Kollam is a moderately industrialized city. Some of the major employers in the public sector are Indian Rare Earths Limited( IRE), Kerala Metals and Minerals Limited( KMML), United Electrical Industries Limited( UNILEC)( popularly known as the Meter Company), Kerala Primo Pipe Factory, Parvathy Mills Limited, ALIND Kundara and Kerala ceramics. Apart from Cashews, Kollam is also famous for its sea food industries, and is the largest pencil slate manufacturing hub in India
Kollam team is led by Mr. Shanthanu Pradip, under the supervision of Smt. Suseela James Head Technical Division. The District has 9 Skill Development Centres. The District has exhibited a steady growth in terms of number of institutions enrolling in ASAP and is looking forward for a spectacular year ahead. The Team members include Senior Programme Manager Smt Shoby Das, leading GHSS Mangad SDC, Sujith J, in charge of GHS Keralapuram SDC, Aleema Asif, in charge of SDC GHSS Chathanoor, Raja A, in charge of SDC GBHSS Kottarakara, Vineeth Kumar Vijayan, in charge SDC GHSS Punaloor, Sarin S Panicker in charge of SDC BJM GC Chavara, Lekshmi Priya in charge of SDC GHSS Poruvazhy K, Anoop Chandran Ramachandran in charge of Jawahar HSS Ayur SDC & Ansiya Sainudheen in charge of SDC GHSS Kadakkal.
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