On the World Youth Skills Day on Saturday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off two skill caravans named “Dakshata Rath” and inaugurated a special Industrial Training Institute (ITI) for physically-disabled students at Khudupur in Khordha district.
The Dakshata Raths would move on two routes and cover all the 30 districts in 15 days ending July 30. The Raths would cover at total of10,000 km.
“Skill development is a major focus of my Government and we plan to skill more than six lakh youths in next two years with brand called Skilled-in-Odisha. All children, including differently-abled, would be covered,” the Chief Minister said.
Addressing a Press conference, Skill Development Chairman Subrat Bagchi said the two Dakshata Raths were launched to create awareness and share information with all the stakeholders of the skill development programmes. Over 250 State level and district level officers would be involved in the campaign. The would go to skill training centres, ITIs and high schools to interact with stakeholders and identify the potential trainees for both long and short term skill development programmes.
The DigiPlex mobile theatre vans would display skill related videos with Dolby sound tracks to the trainees/students and would also facilitate online interaction with role models located outside.
He said there would be district level caravans that would visit all the panchayats, high schools and Skill Development Centres (SDCs). District level officials will be involved in these campaigns.
At district level programmes, ORMAS/OlM representatives would talk about skills centres, trades and employment opportunities. Role models would share their success stories with films. Elected Panchayati Raj representatives would share their opinion.