Manipur to Have New Industrial Training Institute

New Delhi, Feb 8 : Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will lay the foundation stone of an Industrial Training Institute (ITI), at Lilong in Manipur's Thoubal district tomorrow.

Thoubal is one of the six Minority Concentration Districts (MCDs) of Manipur, where the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is running the Multi-sectoral Development Programme ( MsDP ) for the welfare of Minorities.

District plans of all these six MCDs have already been approved by the Ministry.

ITI at Lilong has been approved for Rs 7.91 crore under MsDP. Half of the approved amount for this ITI has already been released as the first installment to Manipur Government.