The State has a total of 48 Government and 526 private ITIs from which as many as 36,448 students have passed out since the year 2014-15 and, of them, 7,797 given jobs in various organisations through institutional level placement cells and the Central Placement Cell by now.
Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Independent MlA Sanatan Mahakud.
In response to a related question of Congress MlA Naba Kishore Das, the Minster informed that 1,686 ITI students and 2,960 Diploma students have so far been enrolled in the Central Placement Cell, which started from November 2013. Of the registered students, 2,580 students have got jobs in various organisations.
Trades like Mechanical, Electrical, Automobile and Electronics and Telecommunications have more demand in the job sector, the Minister said.