the State Government and Apparel Export Promotion Council on Thursday signed an MoU to set up apparel training and design centres.
As per the MoU, five satellite centres would be set up at Berhampur, Rourkela, Baripada, Sambalpur and Cuttack. Three centres at Berhampur, Baripada and Rourkela would start on 31st May, 2008. The two other centres at Cuttak and Sambalpur will be taken up in the next phase.
As per the scheme, the initial capital expenditure of Rs 30 lakh for setting up the institution will be provided by State Government. The assistance will come from the State Employment Mission which works with the objective of skill generation for creating employability among rural and urban youths. The Government will also make available for the Centre floor area of 5,500- 7,500 sq feet suitable for undertaking training and housing equipments. The AEPC will be responsible for other recurring expense for running the institutions including recruitment of personnel and other staffs as well as the day-to-day.
The APEC will be responsible for other recurring expenses for running institution including recruitment of personnel and other staffs as well as the day a to day management. In selection of trainees, local candidates will be given priority and selection will be made from the candidates of Orissa only. These five centres will able to generate about 5,000- 6,000 employment in the garment sector only and 20,00 -26,000 over the 11th plan period.
For upgradation of Government ITIs in the Country the Central Government has launched a new Scheme “Upgradation of 1396 Government ITIs through Public Private Partnership” : The first batch of 300 ITIs has been taken up for upgradation at a cost of Rs. 750.00 Cr. in 2007-08.
Under this Scheme an Industry Partner is associated with each ITI to lead the process of upgradation. An Institute Management Committee (IMC) is set up in the ITI with the Industry Partner or its representative as the Chairperson and the Principal of the ITI as the member Secretary. The IMC is registered as a Society and an interest free loan of upto Rs. 2.5 Cr. is given directly to the IMC Society. The loan is repayable by the IMC Society over a period of 30 years.
For 2007-08, four Government ITIs in the State of Orissa viz. ITIs at Puri, Cuttack, Umerkote (Nabarangpur dist.), and Chhatrapur (Women) have been covered under this Scheme and interest free loan of Rs. 10 Cr. has been released to them at a rate of Rs. 2.5 Cr. per ITI.
This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Shri Oscar Fernandes in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Following is an excerpt on this from a report in Pioneer.
… Henceforth, all the private engineering college and schools will adhere to the principle of giving reservation to women candidates. Earlier, the reservation facilities were available in 25 Government Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), seven engineering colleges and 13 engineering schools. The facilities would be extended to all other technical institutes of the State.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Director, Technical Education Srikant Paikray said all the Engineering Colleges, Schools, Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), Poly-techniques and Industrial Training Centre (ITC) will have to reserve 30 per cent seats for the girls students.
The State now boasts of 317 private ITIs, 41 private engineering colleges, 25 engineering schools and poly techniques. Henceforth, 30 per cent seats of the total 48,783 seats of these institutes would be reserved for women candidates.
The State Government and the Director- General of Employment and Training (DGE&T) have decided to upgrade four ITIs into centres of excellence with World Bank assistance.
The DGT&E has identified the ITIs at Berhampur, Hirakud, Balasore and Talcher for upgradation. While the ITI at Berhampur deals with automobile sector, the institute at Hirakud is for the process plant maintenance sector.
The ITI at Balasore deals with the electrical sector while the one at Talcher is for production and manufacturing. Though the proposal was floated in 2006-07 financial year, it could not be taken up because of delay in release of funds.
The DGE&T has agreed in principle to provide finance during the year for the project. An MoU was signed between the State Government and the DGT&E on December 17 for implementation of the scheme with World Bank assistance.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have found a magic wand to make industrialisation acceptable to masses: bring more youngsters under the technical education umbrella.
“I want each of the industry and corporate houses in our state to have a greater involvement in the technical education sector. The greater the mass of technically qualified manpower, the more will be the demand for industrialisation from the common people. It will make industrialisation a more widely acceptable way of improving life and enhancing regional growth,” Naveen said, …
Stating that he has a vision of establishing at least one industrial training institute in each block of the state, Naveen urged the industry captains to choose any zero-ITI block of their choice and immediately start the establishing an ITI offering trades that they think have market demand.
He advised the industries department to facilitate the process and guide the industrial and corporate houses in this regard.
Stressing the theme of this year’s event — “Building People, building Orissa” — the chief minister said meeting mandatory stipulations under different laws or complying with the guidelines of the resettlement and rehabilitation policy is just one small component of the corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Perhaps keeping the resistance by the locals to several industrial projects in mind, the chief minister advised the industries to have good relationship with the people and entities around their plants.
Following is an excerpt from a report in Statesman.
A shortlist of 134 proposals received by the State Directorate of Technical Education and Training (DTE&T) for establishing Industrial Training Centres (ITCs) in various parts of the state has been sent to the Union government for final approval.
… The new proposals would add ITI capacity to 52 new blocks. It may be noted that Mr Patnaik had suggested the establishment of at least one Industrial Training Institute (ITI) or Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in each of the 314 blocks in December, 2006. The chief minister also suggested the upgrading of the technical education sector.
At least 56 children with various mental-disabilities are taking vocational training at a special centre in Orissa’s Koraput to be self-reliant and prove wrong those who doubted their potential.
At the Manas Education and Vocational Training Centre for the Mentally Challenged, operated under the aegis of Koraput district administration since 2001, training is imparted to children between 6 to 18 years of age. …
The institute provides an opportunity to students to develop their hobbies besides attending the inmates for their mental and physical disorders. Student can learn stitching, candle making, spices packing, book-binding and other similar works.
Fourteen of the students at Manas, who had a harrowing time in their immediate society, now are earning a handsome amount of money.
"Here we stitch mosquito nets and sell them in markets. I will take it as a vocation. If I was in my village my life would have been ruined," said Dinesh Sarika, a student.
According to Bidyadhar Paramanik, Principal of Manas Education and Vocational Training Centre for the Mentally Challenged, the centre is facing financial constraint.
"We have started this school with the objective of looking after such mentally challenged children who are not usually accepted by the society. We gather these children from different villages and provide them with right health treatment and vocational training so as to make them self-sufficient,” Paramanik said.
“Although much is being done by this institution, it is facing financial constraints. The Centre provides 75 per cent funds for this school. The rest is borne by the district administration. We need at least Rs. 65,000 a year, but we get much less," he said.
Shri S.K.Roongta, Chairman, SAIL along with Shri B.N.Singh, M.D. Rourkela Steel Plant called on the Chief Minister at Orissa Bhawan. They briefed the Chief Minister about the expansion plans of Rourkela Steel Plant. He intimated that it has been decided to increase the capacity of Rourkela Steel Plant from 2.1 million tonnes to 4.5 million tones hot metal with an approximate investment of Rs 10,000 Crore. He agreed to the suggestion of the Chief Minister to adopt the existing ITIs of the Sundergarh District and also launch Mobile Medical Vans for each block of the Sundargarh District to deal with the common medical ailments like Malaria. Chief Minister also asked the Chairman, SAIL to take up afforestation in the periphery area of the RSP in a big way.