The first meeting of the Chief Ministers’ sub-group of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog will be held in New Delhi on April 25. Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare and Employment and Technical Education & Training Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma would represent Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the meeting. He would present a vision document on skill development in Odisha.
An inter-departmental meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dasburma at the State Secretariat in this regard. Secretaries of concerned departments presented their activities. They have been asked to provide information about various schemes and programmes being implemented in the State and utilisation of available infrastructure on the basis of Terms of Reference of the NITI Aayog.
The State Government has so far indentified 17 departments which have strong employability aspects. Among others, Chief Secretary GC Pati, Agriculture Secretary Rajesh Sharma, MSME Secretary Panchanan Das, Panchayati Raj Secretary DK Singh, Handicrafts and Handloom Secretary Chitra Arumugam, SC and ST Secretary Surendra Kumar, Woman and Child Development Secretary Saswat Mishra, Culture and Tourism Secretary Dr Arabind Padhee, and other present.