With an objective to make youths skilled and create employment opportunities for them, the State Government on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and two agreements with Tata Strive and Tech Mahindra.
While an agreement was inked between the Directorate of Technical Education & Training (DTE&T) and the Tata Strive to impart Life Skills to students of Government ITIs, the Idco made an agreement with the Tech Mahindra to set up a state-of-the-art facility to start its operations for International BPO at the Fortune Tower here for global customers.
As per the first agreement, Life Skill will be imparted to the students of all 49 ITIs.
The MoU was signed among Tech Mahindra and Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) and College of Engineering & Technology (CET) to set up a Centre of Excellence in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), where students would get an opportunity to work on proof of concept on real life business problems to keep up with the market demand and to enhance the employability of engineering students.
All the three pacts were signed in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Kharavela Bhawan here.
Speaking on the occasion, Patnaik said these partnerships are in perfect sync with the Skilled-in-Odisha initiative. This would give a major boost to our skill development and employment generation efforts.
“Our vision is to make Odisha nucleus of global skilled manpower requirement by enhancing our skill to such a level that all the top industrial houses across the globe rope in our workforce in large numbers,” he said.
“Recently, with our boys shining at World Skill Competition in Russia, signs of our excellence have been exhibited at the global level. We are scaling up our activities to make youth of Odisha skilled for the globe,” he added.