Samikhsya Bureau
Odisha has been reckoned as the Best State in Rural Skill development both at the national and international level. The Union government has recognized Odisha as the ”Best Skilling State” because of its performance continuously during 2016-17 and 2017-18 in Dindayal Upadhaya Grameen Kaushala Yojana ( DDUJKY).
Europe India Foundation for Excellence (EIFE) has also awarded Odisha as the ” Best State in Rural Skill Development” in Global Skill Development Meet organized at UNESCO headquarters of Paris. Because of the quality training and innovations, Odisha has also been designated as National Resource Organization in DDUJKY.
Reviewing the progress of the skilling and placement activities under DDUJKY, Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy asked the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM) to intensify the motivational activities at village level through contact with potential households.
Mr Tripathy also directed to focus on high retention level in different training programmes. It was decided in the meeting that the individual candidate wise tracking and follow up would be taken up from the level of the household to training, employment and post-employment status for one year.
Three new Migration Support Centers (MSCs) will be set up one each at Hyderabad, Pune and Bhubaneswar for facilitation and post-placement support. Presently ,three MSCs are operating at Tiruppur in Tamilnadu, Bengaluru in Karnataka, and Bhiwadi in Rajasthan.
These centres register the skilled youths migrating for the job, organize health camp for them, provide them with the legal literacy and emergency support. A three-year action plan from 2019-22 was discussed in the meeting. Target was fixed to train around 1,50,000 youths within 3 years under placement linked programmes of DDUJKY with a financial outlay of around Rs. 1546 crore.
Out of this 50,000 youths would be trained in the fiscal year 2019-20. Sources said in 2018-19 Odisha occupied the 1st position in-country by training 41,308 youths from among whom 31,698 were provided placement in the organized sector. The review showed that against the target of training 50,000 youths during the current fiscal, so far 20,213 youths were trained by September 27.
The training spreads across the major sectors like apparel, IT; ITES, Electrical, Retail, Tourism and Hospitality, Construction, Healthcare, Automotive, Electronics, Management, Logistic Supply chain.
