Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a series of youth-focused initiatives worth more than ₹62,000 crore in New Delhi on Saturday. The programme, designed to give a major push to education, skilling, and entrepreneurship, will also feature the fourth edition of the National Skill Convocation, Kaushal Deekshant Samaroh, where 46 All India Toppers from Industrial Training Institutes will be felicitated.
A key highlight of the event will be the launch of PM-SETU (Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs). With an investment of ₹60,000 crore, the centrally sponsored scheme will modernize 1,000 government ITIs across the country under a hub-and-spoke model. The upgraded clusters, to be managed by anchor industry partners, will offer advanced infrastruc