Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated a national conclave on ‘Skill Development Initiatives in Hydrocarbon Sector’ on the occasion of the first foundation day of the SDI Bhubaneswar here on Tuesday.
On the occasion, he launched a three-month short-term computer course for girls and ‘Promotion of Entrepreneurship’ drive of the SDI. He too gave away took kits worth Rs 50,000 each to two students to help them begin their entrepreneurship journey.
The Medha Servo was felicitated as best recruiter of the SDI, Bhubaneswar for giving highest employment opportunities to first batch students of institute. Senior officers of the oil industries, academicians, consultants and training partners in skills industry, senior industry members from various part of the country as well as the State took part. Among others, SDI Chairman Verghese Cherian, OIl (HR) Director B Roy, ONGG Director (HR) DD Mishra, HPCl (HR) Director Pushp Joshi, EIl (HR) Director VC Bhandare and SDI CEO NN Rao were present.
The SDI now offers certificate programs on welding and electricity. It has plans to provide skill training to 40,000 students in different trades in coming 10 years. The inauguration programme was followed by three business sessions. At present, the SDI Bhubaneswar is operating from a pilot campus and it would be shifted to a bigger permanent campus spread over 60 acres at Jatni.