Our Vision
- In a 3-year period, we want corporate India to make a bee-line to Odisha, not just to hire but to “lock-in” talent. Our young men and women should command a premium in the wage market.
- In a 5-year period, we plan to skill around 15 lakhs youth, we want global preference for Odisha’s young men and women across sectors. Nations of the world will come to Odisha to hire.
- The Odisha model must be worth emulating in other parts of the world.
Our Mission
- Draw up a Skill Vision for the state for 2024.
- Take all possible steps to meet skilling targets as envisaged in Chief Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (CMEGP) and broader policy of the state from time to time.
- Set up the World Skills Centre at Bhubaneswar as a global institution of repute.
- Make Odisha a leading participant at every World Skills Competition.
- Be the nodal agency for all skill development and entrepreneurship programmes in the State.
- Coordinate and harmonize the approach to skill development among various departments of the Government of Odisha in collaboration with concerned ministries of the Government of India and related organisations like the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
- To create a corpus and raise extra-budgetary resources for skill development from various sources such as international agencies, including multi-lateral agencies, and CSR funds from private sector and public sector.
- Assess and evaluate existing skill development schemes with a view to determine their efficacy and suggest corrective actions to make them more effective.
- Ensure that the skilling needs of the disadvantaged and the socio-economically marginalized groups are taken care of.
- Design, develop, execute policies and programmes and all things necessary to achieve the aforesaid objectives.