Odisha government signs tripartite agreement for soft skill programmes in ITIs

BHUBANESWAR: A tripartite memorandum of working out (MoU) used to be signed on Friday for implementation of soppy ability programme to the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) trainees in the state.
The agreement used to be signed between Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA), Tata STRIVE, a unit of Tata Community Initiatives Trust (TCIT) and Susmita Bagchi, a philanthropist and wife of OSDA chairman Subrato Bagchi in presence of chief minister Naveen Patnaik on the state secretariat.

The purpose of the MoU is to support lifestyles ability of trainees like verbal exchange ability, IT literacy, entrepreneurship ability for better commercial employment or self-employment.

"Though there are subjects on English literacy, IT literacy, communication skills, entrepreneurship skills, productivity, occupational safety, health and environment education in first two semesters of ITIs, these courses literally go unattended due to lack of professionals. Tata STRIVE would provide manpower to impart soft skills to ITI trainees," mentioned Balwant Singh, director, technical schooling and training.

The youth construction module of Tata STRIVE that covers all facets of employability ability topic shall be applied thru Tata STRIVE-Bagchi soft ability coaching program. In the first segment, the programme would be taken up in 10 ITIs to train 8000 youths over a period of two years.


Around 30 execs of Tata STRIVE would impart the employability abilities to trainees of ITIs at Cuttack, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Anandpur, Jajpur, Phulbani, Umerkote, Puri, Ambaguda and Takatpur. The trainees can be nourished with soft abilities in specially designed school rooms in each the years all the way through their route.


The programme would have a financial implication of Rs eight crore of which 50 according to cent would be borne by Tata STRIVE and the steadiness by Susmita Bagchi.


Lauding the OSDA for the effort, chief minister Naveen Patnaik mentioned, "In the fast changing work environment, having life skills is also crucial to meet the challenges of everyday life. We have to equip our trainees with other soft skills beyond the domain skills."


The state government goals to increase the programme to all ITIs at the basis of good fortune of the programme. Odisha has 49 government commercial coaching centres with intake capacity of 17,699 seats. In the following two years, there may have 21 new ITIs which is able to add about 5000 seats.
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