India, June 28 -- While the Uttarakhand government continues to project the state as an emerging education hub and promises to connect unemployed youth with skill-based employment, the reality in many remote hill districts paints a starkly different picture. The Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) at Chirbatia in Rudraprayag district stands as a glaring example of how years of administrative neglect and unfulfilled promises have left vocational education struggling for survival. Established to provide affordable technical education to students from economically weaker families, the institute has been functioning without a permanent building for over three decades. Today, it faces an acute shortage of staff, declining student enro...