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Chennai: Uneducated workers to get skill certificates

Chennai, Nov 21: Thousands of students in March across the country will be preparing for the examinations that will test their skills and lead to certificates, diplomas and degrees. This March, thousands of uneducated workers will find their skills being recognised with certification for the first time.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University has started to implement the Assessment and Certification of Prior Learning programme, recently approved by the Union Ministry of Labour. The university is in the process of developing the tools needed to test candidates and the first level of certification will be rolled out by March 2009, according to Vice-Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai. The target is to certify one lakh people per year, he added.

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TNTF stage demo opposing VAT in city

Chennai, Dec 26: Members of the Chennai District unit of the Tamil Nadu Traders Federation (TNTF) staged a noisy demonstration here today, urging the state government to immediatelty withdraw the Tamil Nadu VAT Act, 2006, as it would badly affect the small traders. Addressing the demonstrators, Federation State President T Vellaiyan, who led the stir said the traders would continue with their struggle till the state government withdraws the Act. The traders would.....
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