Archive · 5 Aug 2025
Odisha's Skill Development Efforts Eyeing Global Market
Odisha is becoming a top place to learn skills for jobs.
They teach people different skills, from fixing things to using computers.
They have special schools and work with companies to teach the skills that are needed.
They're teaching things like robotics and AI.
They are even teaching languages like German and Japanese.
The goal is to help people get good jobs, even in other countries, and to start their own businesses.
They help many people learn these skills every year.
Odisha is a leader in technical education and workforce readiness.
The state focuses on short-term skilling for school dropouts and long-term training via ITIs and polytechnics.
New-age modules include robotics, CNC, and AI to meet industry demands.
Industries are partnering with Odisha for curriculum design and training.
The state aims to train 40,000 skilled youth annually in government sector and 1 lakh in digital domain.
- Who
- Bhupendra Singh Poonia, Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Skill Development and Technical Education Department and Managing Director of IPICOL.
- What
- Odisha is developing a skilled workforce.
- When
- Ongoing.
- Where
- Odisha.
- Why
- To realize Atma Nirbhar Bharat and a Samrudha Odisha by providing skilled manpower for domestic and international markets.
- Key Official
- Bhupendra Singh Poonia, IAS
- Focus
- Skill development and technical education
- Training Institutes
- 72 ITIs and 35 polytechnics
- New-age Modules
- Robotics, CNC, AI, and Industry 4.0
- Foreign Languages Taught
- German, Japanese, Spanish
- Annual Skilled Youth Trained (Government)
- 40,000
- Annual Digital Domain Skilled Professionals
- 1 lakh