Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 08 2010:
Union minister of minority affairs Salman Khurshid will lay the Foundation Stone of an Industrial Training Institute (ITI), at Lilong in the Thoubal District tomorrow February 9 .
State Chief Minister will grace the foundation laying ceremony.
The proposed ITI specially for the minorities is to be established with an approved fund of Rs 7.91 crore under Multi-sectoral Development Programme ( MsDP ) for the welfare of Minorities.
Half of the approved amount for this ITI has already been released as the first installment to the state government.
Thoubal is one of the six Minority Concentration Districts ( MCDs ) of Manipur, where the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is running the Multi-sectoral Development Programme ( MsDP ) for the welfare of Minorities.
District Plans of all these six MCDs have already been approved by the Ministry.