Nine private companies on Monday signed MoUs with the Orissa government to set up industrial training centres in the state.The companies are AES Corp-managed Orissa Power Generation Corp (OPGC), Tata Power Ltd, Vedanta Sterlite Energy Ltd, RSB Metalteh (P) Ltd, Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd, Emami Paper Mill, Surendra Mining Industries (P) Ltd and Ind-Barath Energy (Utkal) Ltd.
The director technical education and training, Anil Samal, signed the MoU on behalf of the state government in the presence of chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, industries minister Raghunath Mohanty, chief secretary T K Mishra and industries secretary Sourav Garg.
The chief minister said the state government will identify and transfer required land for the centres to be set up by the companies.The centres will come up within one year of taking possession of the land, he added.
The industries minister said that by 2015, the state's annual requirement will be of 1,40,000 to 1,80,000 trained personnel in highly-skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled and non-executive workforce in metal and manufacturing sector. In order to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of skilled manpower, it is imperative to have quantitive and qualitative expansion of the technical education and vocational training centres in the state.
He said responding to the chief minister's call for setting up of industrial training centres in the state by the companies as part of their CSR activities, many companies have come forward to set up such centres in the state.
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