Tie-up with Intel to train Odia youths

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Talks are underway to have a tie-up with Intel and Ministry of MSME to facilitate the Central Tool Room, Bhubaneswar for providing skill on Internet of Things (IoT).

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing evices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

Development Commissioner MSME Surendra Nath Tripathy and other senior officials are in touch with the world’s largest and high valued semiconductor chip maker for such an innovative initiative. Intel is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors: the processors found in most Personal Computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, lenovo (formerly IBM), HP, and Dell.

The Ministry of MSME is taking up the project under Technology Centre Systems Programme (TCSP) and Central Tool Room and Training Centre, Bhubaneswar has been selected for Intel initiative, which is first of its kind in India. Talks are progressing in a positive mode and once finalized, it will facilitate for the first time that Intel will train boys and girls in Odisha on IoT.

At least 1,000 engineering graduates will be trained in the Central Tool Room and Training Centre (CTRTC), Bhubaneswar, which is providing high end technical skilling to boys and girls every year. On an average nearly 30,000 youths are being trained every year with various skills and out of them 95 per cent find jobs in the industries. Skill training is provided on space and avionics industry, sources said.             

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