Bhubaneswar: 5T and Nabin Odisha Chairman Kartik Pandian interacted with 181 trainees under the Odisha Up-skilling & Placement Programme (OUPP) at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.
The objective of this programme is to provide skill development in advanced information technologies and 100% placement assistance. It also provides free boarding facilities to all selected students throughout the six-month course duration.
The programme is based on Recruit, Train, and Deploy (RTD) approach under which job aspirants with BTech, MCA, and MSc degrees and from economically weaker backgrounds were selected from across the state. Male and female students are represented equally in the training programme.
Three state-of-the-art modern IT labs with advanced technologies were established for imparting the training programme and Tech Mahindra was selected as the technical partner of the programme while Tata Steel Foundation was the skilling partner and provided CSR support.
Remarkably, all the trainees have been successfully placed in Tech Mahindra, with an annual package of Rs 4.25 LPA. Representatives of Tech Mahindra and Tata Steel Foundation praised the efforts of the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for providing such partnerships towards youth empowerment and employment.
Pandian interacted with the trainees and said it has been a dream project under the 5T Initiative to provide the best training and placement services to the educated talented youth. He was happy that the first batch had done extremely well and set the pace for future batches. He said that the next batch will be started soon and the government would like to expand the programme and scale it up with more trainees.
The trainees thanked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Kartik Pandian profusely for the novel step and support by the government and expressed great happiness on getting placed in a reputed company like Tech Mahindra.
