OlA, the country’s largest cab aggregator service, has offered the Odisha Government to provide professional driving training to youths in the State.
In the first 12 months after rollout of the programme, it aims to provide training to at least 2,500 youths as per its skill development scheme.
OlA officials, after visiting the Driver Training Institute (DTI) at Chhatia, have proposed to the State Government to make joint efforts to make it a global benchmark and a centre of excellence (CoE).
Commerce & Transport Principal Secretary Sanjay Rastogi held a discussion with the OlA officials. Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) Chairman Subrato Bagchi is in touch with OlA CEO Bhavish Agarwal. OlA wants to increase such driving centres in the State along with the DTI Chatia facility. It is interested to help weaker sections of the society to take up light motor vehicle (lMV) commercial driving as livelihood and become micro entrepreneurs.
OlA would further provide its input on course content design based on its industry knowhow to ensure best-in-class training for aspirants. And it would provide attachment opportunity on its platform to all the trained drivers in this programme. OlA has proposed to provide `1.50 crore to the DTI Chhatia for customisation and upgradation of training infrastructure and course design.