New Delhi Mar 27 PTI Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday launched an international project -- Training for Emirates Jobs And Skills TEJAS -- aimed at creating pathways to enable the Indian workforce to get equipped for skill and market requirements in the UAE Thakur on the second day of his visit to Dubai addressed the audience at the launch saying India has a youthful population and the youth are the largest stakeholders in both nation building and image building Our focus is to skill this population and provide the world with a large skilled workforce from India he said while reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision of a strong partnership between India and the UAE Tejas aims at creating a 10000-strong Indian workforce in UAE during the initial phase he said The project is aimed at skilling certification and overseas employment of Indians Tejas is aimed at creating pathways to enable the Indian workforce to get equipped for skill and market requirements in the UAE the ministry said in a statement Thakur also held a series of discussions with industry leaders from film and entertainment space in India and the UAE The day started with a meeting with Olivier Bramley CEO Media and Entertainment E-Vision Other CEOs present at the meeting included Neeraj Roy founder of Hungama Digital Media and Harit Nagpal MD and CEO of Tata Play Thakur also mentioned about the large India population living in the UAE and their drive to contribute to Emirates and India as well He talked about Prime Minister Modis Mann ki Baat initiative saying it provided a great medium to connect with the people and encourage them to get vaccinated He mentioned about the large viewership in India of TV radio OTT among others The minister also met prominent Indian filmmakers such as Kabir Khan and Priyadarshan in a discussion also attended by Film Commissioner of the Abu Dhabi Film Commission Hans Fraikin Thakur also visited the India Pavillion at Dubai Expo where he held a discussion with Minister of State for International Cooperation in the Government of UAE Reem Al Hashimi Thakur reached Dubai on Saturday on a three-day visit to participate in events related to the Media and Entertainment Week being observed at the India Pavilion in Dubai Expo 2020 During the meetings held in the two days the minister and the CEOs discussed about how India and the UAE can work together on programming for Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and stressed that there is a need to work on ensuring free flow of content from India to Arab region the ministry said It was also discussed how the media and entertainment ME sector can take the face of New India to the world We are not lagging behind in new technology in the ME sector considering our post production capabilities and talent India has a competitive market in ME space the minister said Looking forward to partnerships between India UAE to create better content and in other areas of cooperation There is huge potential in archives sector Indian government has a lot of film archives We are sharing it for revenue generation the minister added PTI AG SMN SMN

Jaipur Oct 30 PTI Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday said Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot should come out of his residence and ask people about their conditionThakurs remarks come in response to Gehlots allegation against Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the latter had conspired to topple the Rajasthan government last yearHe Gehlot should come out of his residence and ask about the condition of the public the IB minister saidThakur said the Union home minister has a lot of work to do and is engaged in the work for the nationTaking another dig at the Rajasthan CM the IB minister said Gehlot could not keep his colleagues together and that he should focus on his partyOn promotion of sports Thakur who is also the sports and youth affairs minister said the corporate sector and educational institutes should come forward for the promotion of gamesThe minister later held a meeting of the heads of various media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Rajasthan including Press Information Bureau All India Radio and Doordarshan and directed them to take the welfare schemes of the central government to common peoplePTI SDA SRY