Sinha visits Skill Dev Institute, Bhubaneswar
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BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday asserted that it is our mission to transform India into a developed nation and industry-aligned courses will ensure self-reliance in critical technologies and it will boost up the employment.
“We have a historic opportunity to take the leadership in the skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling to give a new height to ascending trajectory of the economic growth”, the Lieutenant Governor said in an interaction with officials, students and trainers during his visit the Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar.
The officials, students and trainers informed the Lieutenant Governor about advanced skill training for Indian and global needs and functioning of Centres of Excellence in partnership with leading industry players.
He discussed the industry-aligned courses in diverse domains such as mechanical, construction, IT, ITeS, manufacturing, Internet of Things and hospitality.
Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar is a philanthropic initiative of Oil PSUs under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
Earlier, during his first leg of the two day visit on Friday, the Lieutenant Governor, accompanied by Dr Mandeep Kumar Bhandari, Principal Secretary to LG and Saurabh Bhagat, Commissioner/Secretary, Skill Development Department, visited the World Skill Center, and took a walkthrough of the facility and lab. He also interacted with trainees and teachers and dwelt upon the ongoing industrialization in Jammu Kashmir and the unique initiatives of the Administration to develop the Union Territory as hub of innovation and skill development.
Subroto Bagchi, Chief Advisor to Government of Odisha, Institutional Capacity Building; Alka Misra, Chairperson, Odisha Skill Development Authority and other senior officers of Government of Odisha were present.
His visit was also marked by an interaction with officials of Startup Odisha wherein he discussed the reforms made by the team in building the startup and innovation ecosystem in the state. Startup Odisha team informed the Lt Governor about ‘O Hub’, a state-of-the-art Incubation facility which aims to register more than 5000 startups by 2025.
Executive Chairman, Startup Odisha, Dr. Omkar Rai enumerated the notable achievements and future growth plans of Startup Odisha.