'UK keen to help India enhance vocational skills'

The UK is keen on helping India to reach its target of enhancing skills of 500 million people by 2022, UK-India Business Council Chairman Patricia Hewitt today said.

"We want to deepen our relationship with the government as well as the corporates to create partnerships to impart training to people not having higher education," Hewitt said.
 Hewitt is in India leading a delegation of 20 organisations who are interested in working in India.
 Some of them like Bournville College are already working in the country, she said.
 The UK is mainly focused on imparting training in health, (especially in non-clinical), construction, media and digital industry, she added.
 Hewitt has already met officials of Andhra Pradesh government in Hyderabad, corporates in Mumbai and is to meet officials from the Centre.

-PTI