Bhubaneswar: Odisha has effectively trained and ensured employment for a record 96,000 rural youths under Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), said Panchayati Raj Minister Pradip Maharathy here Tuesday. He hailed Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society’s (ORMAS) efforts to implement the central scheme which helped the state to fetch the Prime Minister’s Award for best State in the country in skill development of rural youth, for second year in a row.
The minister added that the state government has set a target to train two lakh more youths over the next two years under this programme.
Maharathy said Chief Minister has expressed pleasure and congratulated the Panchayati Raj department, ORMAS, other departments and agencies involved in making the programme in the state a success.
Firms and institutes such as Escorts, Tata’s Westside, GMR Group, Sahi Exports, KIIT University, Care Hospital Group, Apollo Hospital and Gram Tarang, are keen to work with ORMAS and absorb skilled youths from the state, the minister claimed.
Meanwhile, Maharathy also took a jibe at Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stating that while Pradhan is working for skill development of urban youths, Odisha government has worked for the skill development of youths in rural areas. “He is like Mahanadi and we are Kharasrota River. The water in Mahanadi could dry up but Kharasrota will keep flowing,” Maharathy said sarcastically.
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