The Union Environment Ministry has launched its Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP), to train over 5.5 lakh workers in environment and forest sectors in the country, via 30 courses by 2021.

The GSDP was launched a year ago, as a pilot project in 10 districts of the country where 154 youths were trained as parataxonomists and biodiversity conservationists.

Environment minister Harsh Vardhan stated, “After the pilot project, now we are going to launch GSPD on a large scale and 80,000 youths in the country will be trained at 80 institutions in next one year. The number will be raised to over 2 lakh in the following year and by 2021 a total over 5.5 lakh youths will be trained as green skilled workers.”

Furthermore, these certificate courses have duration of 80 hours to 560 hours and its admission will open from July and the app can be used for more information and applying to the courses.

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