Gokarneshwar Municipality Empowers 30 Youth with EV Repair Training

Kathmandu. Kathmandu's Gokarneshwar Municipality, under its Mission Employment campaign, has been teaching skills to youth and facilitating their employment. With the support of the municipality, an electric vehicle repair training program has been completed at Shankharapur Polytechnical Institute. Thirty youth from Gokarneshwar participated in the 65-day (390-hour) long training.

At the closing ceremony held on Friday, Gokarneshwar Municipality Mayor Deepak Kumar Risal claimed that the city has been facilitating self-employment and job creation based on expertise by running the Mission Employment campaign to teach skills to those who lack them. He said, "We have been working in a different way. It is the responsibility of the local government to produce skilled manpower in sectors that are marketable and in demand and to create an environment for employment."

Gokarneshwar Education Department Chief Bir Bahadur Khadka stated that since having a skill opens secure doors for self-employment, jobs, and foreign employment, the city has taken the lead in this initiative.

Pradip Raj Basaula, head of Shankharapur Polytechnical Institute, suggested that the youth who received the training should work together in a cooperative spirit to open a workshop for electric vehicle repair and become self-employed. 

Gokarneshwar Municipality has been providing technology-friendly training to give a concrete shape to the "one house, one job" goal by becoming more contemporary. Certificates were also distributed to the training participants during the closing ceremony.