Government of Kerala has initiated an ambitious Programme, the Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP) with the objective of tackling the issue of growing unemployment in the state.The Programmes aims at equipping selected school/college students with skills in Communication, IT and selected areas of industry and service sectors.At Level 1, ASAP imparts 300 hours of skill training to selected first year students (30 per batch, maximum 2 batches in an institution). Of this, 180 hours will be a foundation module comprising of Communication Skills and IT skills and the remaining 120 hours will be the module related to the skill sector chosen by the student. Smt. Rakhee Raghavan of English department is incharge of the ASAP.