Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) through its Socially Smart Project will organize a `skill fair’ (mela) here on November 25.
The event, to be held at Saheed Nagar BMC Kalyan Mandap in the capital city, aims to bring in both the employability seeking youth and the institutes imparting skill education to a single platform.
So far 12 leading skilling institutes across the city have given their consent to be present at the “Skill Mela’’ and more may likely to join.
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 “Skill Mela’’ aims to bring 200 youths from various slums and non-slum areas of Bhubaneswar. Youth with a qualification of Class VIII and above can participate in the programme.
It would be pertinent to mention 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 Town Centre District (being developed under area-based development initiative of BSCL) and currently covers 100 slums of the city.
The programme is being implemented at community-level through partner NGO ‘Humara Bachpan Trust’ (HBT).