Uttarkhand economic Raipur: Today, a new era has been started in the field of education, skill development and innovation in the leadership of CM Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Dev Sai in Chhattisgarh. CM Vishnu Dev Sai became a special event organized at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium in the capital today at the Chhattisgarh Government, Raipur, Raipur, Raipur, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur and Motilal Oswal Foundation to be witness to the signing of the trilateral MoU. The construction of the entrepreneurship center to be established under this agreement will start in the year 2025-26 and a target has been set to make it complete by 2027-28.
Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Dev Sai said on the occasion that the MoU signed today will get significant assistance in realizing the "Chhattisgarh Anjor Vision". With this partnership, the revolution of education, skill development and innovation will reach the village in the state, which will motivate the youth to move forward. The Chief Minister said, "Mrs. Mithilesh Agarwal innovation and entrepreneurship excellence will be established", which will work to make the youth self-sufficient through research, experimentation and entrepreneurship. " Apart from this, CM Vishnu Dev Sai said that this excellence center should not be limited only to the students of IIM or NIT, but should also benefit the youth of village. The Chief Minister also urged the industry to join this education and skill development movement.
Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Sai further said that Chhattisgarh is now faster in the core sector as well as semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence, Pharma, Defense, Aerospace and Green Hydrogen in state-of-the-art areas. As a result of more than three and a half hundred reforms made in the last 20 months, an investment environment has been created in the state and in just eight months, investment proposals of more than Rs 6.75 lakh crore have been received. The Chief Minister mentioned that we all take a pledge to make Chhattisgarh not a resource-based state, but a state leading a state-based economy-where youth should be the carriers of change and give direction to the society with entrepreneurship.
Mr. Ramdev Agarwal, co-founder and chairman of Motilal Oswal Foundation, announced the establishment of the country's largest training center for farmers in Raipur in the program. He said that Chhattisgarh is a very rich state, which has immense potential for development. His foundation is completely dedicated to this development journey. Mr. Aggarwal informed that the Foundation has decided to dedicate 10 percent of its total fund to social welfare, which will be used in education, skills and agriculture related works.
Motilal Oswal Foundation has announced a total donation of Rs 172 crore to IIM Raipur and NIT Raipur. Out of this, Rs 101 crore will be given to IIM Raipur and Rs 71 crore to NIT Raipur. With this donation, 202 rooms of "Oswal Hostel" and "Dau Ram Gopal Agarwal Knowledge Center" will be established in IIM Raipur. In addition, six international MBA programs will be started in collaboration with top institutions in the US, Britain, France and Germany.
Also, "Mrs. Mithilesh Agarwal Center of Excellence" will be established at NIT Raipur, which will work on deep-tech fields like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things, Blockchain and Clean Energy. This center will train over 10,000 youth by the year 2030, incubate more than 250 startups and create more than 5,000 skilled jobs. The initiative has been developed in line with the industrial needs of Chhattisgarh - especially mining, steel and manufacturing areas, and it will be focused on the solution of real problems in collaboration with local industries.
On this occasion, Principal Secretary Smt. Niharika Chowik, Secretary, Department of Higher Education and Skill Development, Mr. S.K. Bhartidasana, Chief Executive Officer of Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Authority Mr. Vijay Dayaram K, NIT Raipur Chairman Dr. Suresh Howre, IIM Raipur Chairman Mr. Puneet Dalmia, Director of NIT, Mr. N. V. Prasanna Rao, Director in charge of IIM Raipur, Dr. Sanjeev Parashar, Administrative Officer, Educationist and a large number of students were present.
