Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) through its ‘Socially Smart Project’ will organise a `Skill Fair’ at Saheed Nagar BMC Kalyan Mandap November 25 Monday.
The aim is to bring in both the employment seeking young persons and the institutes imparting skill education to a single platform, BSCL said. As many as 12 leading skilling institutes from Bhubaneswar have given their consent to be present at the `Skill Fair’ and more are likely to join, it added.
The institutes who have given their nod to participate at the unique fair are: Skill Development Institute, Kampa Bhai Vocational Training Institute, Upasana Educational Trust, Government ITI Bhubaneswar, Urban Micro Business Centre, ICICI Academy of Skills, Central Tool-room Training Centre, CV Raman Institute of Technology, Vocational Rehabilitation Centre, Tech Mahindra Foundation, EduBridge Learning Private Limited and Trident Academy of Technology.
The fair aims to bring 200 young candidates from various places of Bhubaneswar. Persons with a qualification of Class VIII and above can participate in the programme.
It may be mentioned here that the people-centric programme for making Bhubaneswar `Socially Smart’ is a collaborative initiative of BSCL, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and United Nations Population Fund. The project was initiated in Jan 2017 in eight slums of Bhubaneswar and currently covers 100 slums of the city.