Bhubaneswar, July 26: The Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS) on Thursday signed MoUs with 10 project implementing agencies (PIAs) in the state to facilitate free residential skill development training and placement opportunities to a total of 17,272 unemployed rural youths.
The ORMAS will impart skill training in different trades such as retail, healthcare, sewing machine operation, general duty assistance to 17,272 unemployed rural youths under the Centre’s Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) this year.
Project outlay of around Rs 126 crore has been made for the purpose. Shahi Exports, Sahana Clothing Company, Best Corporation, Armstrong Spinning Mills, Gokul Das Exports are among the 10 PIAs that have inked pact with ORMAS to train the rural youths.
Collaboration with the PIAs will help in achieving the greater goal of equipping rural youth with required employable skills to improve their socio-economic condition. This initiative of ORMAS will help in reducing labour force migration in the state, said Naik.
The MoUs were signed in the presence of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Minister Rabi Narayan Naik. Panchayati Raj secretary Sushil Kumar Lohani, ORMAS CEO Guha Poonam Tapas and other officials were present during signing of the MoUs.
