CHENNAI, India ¨C When Sukhwinder Singh, Mitali Sinh and Raman Sorout signed up to train as solar technicians, they had hoped to find jobs in India¡¯s growing solar-energy sector. But none of them did.
Trained under the Suryamitra program ¡ª a flagship project of India¡¯s Skill Council for Green Jobs ¡ª all three spent months looking for work in the solar industry but drew a blank.
The program¡¯s main objective is to train high-school leavers and vocational diploma holders as field technicians, to operate and manage solar energy projects that are key to meeting India¡¯s goal of achieving 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
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