The Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Minister of Education Shri Dharmendra Pradhan announced that India’s first Skill India International Centre will be set up at SDI Bhubaneshwar in collaboration between Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar and NSDC international.
The center will be established for the training of Indian youth per international standards with an aim to enhance overseas opportunities for the skilled workforce. He also launched a National Academy for Skill Teachers that will be set up at SDI campus for skill training of teachers and assessors.
An MoU was exchanged between the COO & Officiating CEO of NSDC Mr. Ved Mani Tiwari and the CEO of SDI Bhubaneswar Mr. Sanjay Srivastava in presence of Shri Pradhan, the Chairman of OSDA Shri Subroto Bagchi and the Chairman of SDI, Bhubaneswar, and Director (HR) of IOCL Shri Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra.
These partnering organizations will work with NSDC and SDI for aggregating demand from overseas markets. A memorandum of cooperation was signed between NSDCI and Odisha Skill Development Authority to promote international workforce mobility for skilled and certified workers from Odisha to other countries. The representatives of various UAE companies were present at the event. MoUs were also signed with EASA Saleh Al Gurg, a multidivisional business conglomerate in UAE; Khansaheb-one of the leading construction companies in UAE; Reliant HR Consultancy–a well-established manpower sourcing company and ESPA–a service provider in plumbing in UAE.
Shri Pradhan said, “We are determined to keep up the momentum and are focusing on building a quality-enhancing and demand-driven learner-centric skill ecosystem.”
