Bhubaneswar: Drawing inspiration from Skill India initiative of the government and realising the importance of linking economic development with human resource and the need to create opportunities, space and scope for the development the Indian youth, CSIR-(IMMT) Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology Tuesday started a skill development programme which will continue till March 28.
In this programme, emphasis is being given on specialised courses related to advance machining and advance welding thereby enhancing/upgrading the skill level to cater to the need of the industry.
CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar is conducting a certificate course and a workshop on “Advance Machining/Advance Welding”. The training programme was inaugurated by Swati Mohanty, Head, HRD, P C Beuria, HOD, Workshop, S K Pradhan, Skill Development Coordinator and R K Mandal, In-charge, Workshop of CSIR- IMMT Bhubaneswar.
Students from different ITIs and engineering schools are participating in the course which is of three-week duration.
The Central Mechanical Workshop of CSIR-IMMT is well equipped with different modern and state-of-the-art machinery like conventional lathe m/c, Milling m/c, Surface Grinder m/c, Shaping m/c, Radial drilling m/c, CNC Lathe, CNC Milling and CNC EDM m/c to carter different R&D requirements of the scientists. All the machinery are supported by well trained technical manpower and advance CAD & CAM software are used to carry out precision works.
Swati Mohanty said the objective of this program is to translate the knowledge of Mechanical Workshop technology covering advance mechanical machine tools (CNC Turning/CNC Milling/Wire EDM) and advance welding operations such as TIG, MIG, spot welding and plasma cutting among others. More thrust will be on practical hands-on training (20 per cent theory and 80 per cent practical with hands-on practical exposure to different machinery).