Mumbai, Dec. 26 -- National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) Kundli has been selected as a Project Implementing Agency (PIA) by the Ministry of Minority Affairs to implement the scheme PM VIKAS. In this regard, an MoU was signed with the Ministry by the Institute. The scheme is aimed at developing the capacity of youth from minority communities through targeted interventions by providing skill training support in need-based courses and ensuring employment /livelihood opportunities for them. NIFTEM Kundli is one of the few Institutes of National Importance (INI) selected as PIA for the scheme.

Under this project, NIFTEM-K will train a total of 2,110 beneficiaries from the minority community under three...