Agartala, Dec 7 : The Tripura government will set up 25 more industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state to provide career-oriented training to jobless youth, Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury said Monday.

"To solve the gigantic unemployment problem, vocational training and job-oriented teaching would be given through these proposed ITIs," Chowdhury told reporters here.

The union ministry for development of northeastern region (DoNER) will partly fund the establishment of these new ITIs estimated at Rs. 125 crore, he said.

"The union ministry has sanctioned funds for two of the 25 ITIs."

According to the minister, the new ITIs would be commissioned in interior, tribal and minority-dominated and backward areas of the land-locked bordering state.

With the new 25 ITIs, the total number of such training institutes in the state would rise to 30.

Currently Tripura has over 600,000 registered educated unemployed youth.(IANS)