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projects to upgrade educational facilities in 17 districts of Odisha."The dream of New Odisha shall be incomplete without quality education
and educational infrastructure," Pradhan said while inaugurating the main campus of the Skill Development Institute (SDI), Bhubaneswar at
Taraboi, Jatni near here.Pradhan said PSUs under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas have taken up various corporate social
responsibility projects to upgrade educational facilities in 17 of the 30 districts of the state.These districts are Angul, Balasore,
Baragarh, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Deogarh, Dhenknal, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Kandhamal, Kendrapada, Khorda, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, Nuapada, Puri
and Sambalpur.As part of the Skill India programme, all PSUs in the oil gas sector like IOCL, ONGC, GAIL, BPCL, HPCL, OIL, EIL and Balmer
Lawrie, have joined hands for the setting up Skill Development Institutes across the country, he said.Pradhan said reputed employers have
shown interest for preferring SDI trainees for recruitment as the students have proved their merit by being excellent skilled workforce in
their organizations.As part of the programme, there was an exchange of MoUs between SDI, Bhubaneswar and industries supporting Centre of
Excellence (CoE) like Schneider Electric, Siemens, KEMPPI, Institute of Chemical Technology collaboration with ICT for skill development
courses and between IndianOil and ITI, Bhubaneswar and ITI, Dashrath (Vadodara) on Dual System of Training.Click here for more Education
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