Minister for Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood C.N. Ashwath Narayan virtually inaugurated the regional office of the International Immigration Centre located at the Urwa Market building in the Mangalore. The immigration centre has been set up to provide skills necessary for aspirants to get jobs in healthcare and other sectors abroad. “We are opening its first regional office in the city.

The Minister also virtually launched an English Language Lab, which has been opened at the Government ITI for Girls. He said that the lab has so far trained more than 300 students in English speaking skills, which is necessary to get jobs, in the last three months. Managing Director of Karnataka Skill Development Corporation Ashwin D. Gowda said that the corporation is in talks with industrial bodies and units of Dakshina Kannada and trying to involve them as partners in training youth from the region in skills that the units want.

MP Nalin Kumar Kateel,  Mangalore City South MLA D. Vedavyas Kamath, Mangalore City North MLA Y. Bharath Shetty and Founder of Robosoft Technologies Rohith Bhat were present.