Konkan, Vidarbha youth to get training for competitive exams in Maharashtra

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Desai said the representation of youth from Konkan and Vidarbha was less in jobs where recruitment is done through exams conducted by the UPSC and MPSC and a cabinet committee had suggested enhanced training to students from these areas to raise their representation.

He informed the House that the state higher and technical education department had started a special programme to train students from Nagpur and Konkan for government recruitment examinations.

Former minister Ranjit Kamble asked the government to start an IAS training academy in Amravati and Nagpur, and also provide assistance to academies imparting such training in these two districts as well as Konkan.

Desai told Kamble the state government would study this suggestion.