Bhubaneswar: In a bid to create more employment opportunity among the youths in Odisha, the State government on Monday signed an MoU and two agreements with TATA Strive and Tech Mahindra.
The MoU and agreements were signed at Kharavela Bhawan here in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
While an agreement was signed between Directorate of Technical Education & Training (DTE&T) and TATA Strive to impart Life Skills to students of Government ITIs, IDCO inked an agreement with Tech Mahindra to set up a state-of-the-art facility to start its operations for International BPO at Fortune Tower for global customers.
As per the first agreement, Life Skill will be imparted to the students of all 49 state-run ITIs in Odisha.
Similarly, an MoU was inked 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 will 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.
Speaking on the occasion, CM Patnaik said, “Our vision is to make Odisha the 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.
“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 the youth of Odisha skilled for the globe,” he added.
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