CCL CMD Gopal Singh at the news meet in Ranchi on Wednesday. (Hardeep Singh)

Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) is coming up with a diploma institute at Rajrappa and three industrial training institutes (ITIs) — one each at Bhurkunda, Piparwar and Tandwa — for imparting technical education to boys and girls of project-affected areas.

The central PSU’s chairman-cum-managing director, Gopal Singh said the institutes would provide industry-based training to students, thus increasing their employability chances.

In fact, the company itself plans to absorb them in their own units. “We will take in as many youths as possible. Others graduating with degrees from our institutes will be eligible for jobs anywhere across the country,” Singh said during a news meet to outline the company’s corporate social responsibility programmes at Darbhanga House in Ranchi on Wednesday.

Singh further said CCL had adopted 11 children from project-affected areas across the state and was funding their education and lodging. All of them are currently studying in Class XI at DAV Gandhi Nagar.

“Four engineers of the company are also giving them lessons so that they can crack the IIT,” Singh added.

In partnership with IIM-Ranchi, the mining major has also started a “barefoot manager” programme. Youths from project areas are receiving entrepreneurship skills so that they can start their own business.

“We have also opened several vocational training centres in the state, where youths are receiving hands-on training on TV, mobile phone and automobile repairing. The youths can later set up their own repair workshops,” Singh said.

The company has also begun a “dispensary on wheel”. Under this programme, doctors of CCL visit different villages situated in its command areas with mobile medical vans. Nine such vans are on the move.

CCL has also designed a kaayakalp yojna (complete makeover plan) — a package of different welfare schemes — for the poor.