Dehradun: Uttarakhand Sill Development Mission under ‘India Skill-2018’ held a hair dressing competition for Garhwal region at Oren International, here on Friday. A total of 19 male and female participants took part in the contest. Uttarakhand Kaushal Vikas Samiti is organizing ‘India Skills-Uttarakhand 2018,’ a skill competition to improve the skills of youth of the state. The youth from Garhwal region are participating in the competition. Uttarakhand state will be participating for the first time in the World Skills Competition which is world’s biggest competition as known as Olympiad for skills under the leadership of Skill Development Mission, Director, Dr Pankaj Kumar Pandey. The World Skills competition is held after every two years. The purpose of the global competition is to develop skills so that more number of youths can horn their skills and take it up as their profession.
A total of 19 youth from Garhwal participated in the competition held in Dehradun today and five best were selected. Nadeem ,Sheetal and Parul Negi stood first, second and third, respectively, while Preeti Kaur and Danish bagged fourth and fifth positions, respectively. The selection jury comprised hair dressing expert Vijay from Oren Academy, Chandigarh, Mahesh from Geetanjali Saloon and Usha Bhatt from Wonder Lap Saloon, Dehradun who judged the competition.
The competition in Kumaon division will be held on April 11. The ten selected candidates would participate in a state level competition to be held on April 17 at Geetanjali saloon, Dehradun. The selected candidates would then be sent for national level competition and from there, selected candidates would participate in World Skill Competition 2019, which is going to be held in Russian town of Kazhan.
Nodal officer skill development mission/deputy director (employment) Chandrakanta, advisor Shavesh Baksh, manager, placement Shweta Uniyal and Employment officer Binita were present.
