City-based Centurion Group of Institutions (CGI) has entered into an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to nurture and promote employability and self employment among socially and economically marginalized youth with special focus on south and western Orissa.
The MoU was signed recently by Mukti Mishra, chairman, CGI and Dillip Chenoy, chief executive officer, NSDC.
CGI will implement this project through 'Gram Tarang Employability Training Services'- a social entrepreneurial outreach entity that facilitates the creation of a talent pool which caters to economic growth and human index development.
The training will be offered by CGI through its constituent institutions- Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management, Centurion School of Rural Enterprise Management (CSREM), both based out of Paralakhemundi in south Orissa'a Gajapati district and the city-based Centurion Institute of Technology (CIT).
The Gram Tarang initiative of CGI is a rural employability training initiative that aims at unlocking the huge potential of rural markets. It looks at innovative strategies to develop the potential of rural markets.
Gram Tarang Employability Training Services has been entrusted with this project based on its past experience and expertise in providing technical training, building cognitive and practical abilities, developing social as well as behavioural traits of candidates in order to make them employable.
The project targets the school dropouts and unemployed graduates at the bottom of the pyramid.
Under this first of its kind Public Private Partnership (PPP) project , about 21,000 unskilled and semi-skilled youth will be trained annually in different technical trades across the state, which will facilitate development and up-gradation of the skilled workforce. Besides, it will help in developing the skills of potential candidates in the unorganized sector of Orissa.
