Bengaluru: The third India skills regional competition started here on Thursday with around 300 participants from 14 states taking an interest in 36 aptitudes, including aircraft machine support, floristry,mobile robotics, fashion technology, welding, graphic design, web designing, cooking, jewellery and beauty therapy among others.

Organised by the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, winners from the three-day occasion will move to nationals to contend with champs from other regional contestants and get an opportunity to represent India at World Skills 2019 at Kazan in Russia.

The applicants are from Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.

“The competition is being held to develop world-class standards in vocational education and training by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) of the ministry,” said 2017 World Skills silver medalist Mohit Dudeja at the occasion.

For the first time, 22 states and Union Territories joined forces with NSDC to arrange 500 regions and states competitors, which prepared 50,000 contenders across 45 skills.

The winners from the four areas will contend at the National Competition in New Delhi in the not so distant future for choice to represent the nation at the Kazan challenge.

“As Bengaluru has been at the forefront of skill development, it is hosting the regional challenge to give the youth a stage to show their abilities at the international level,” said NSDC Executive Director Jayant Krishna.

NSDC accomplice Mettl is additionally hosting at the scene Bangalore International Exhibition Center (BIEC)- a Career Guidance Assessment to enable the members to seek after a profession in arrangement with their range of abilities and an Innovation Gallery for new companies to feature their innovation and items.

Association Minister of State for Skill Development and business Anant Kumar Hegde will felicitate winners on Saturday after the 3-day competition.