Posco-India takes up vocational training programme
The first batch of 33 locals were enrolled yesterday, Posco-India Ltd sources said today.
By PTI |
BHUBANESWAR: Continuing the efforts at wooing the people opposed to its 12 million tonne steel plant near Paradip, South Korean steel maker Posco-India ltd has taken up a vocational training programme for the local population.
"This vocational training and construction work is only a small part of the mega steel plant construction and there will be much more employment opportunities in the coming years for locals for a better means of livelihood," Posco-India Ltd's Chairman-cum-Managing Director Soung-Sik Cho said.
The first batch of 33 locals were enrolled yesterday, Posco-India Ltd sources said today.
The training would last six months and cover trades such as electrician, welding and fabrication. On completion, each trainee would be given a merit certificate by the Orissa government.
The sources said Posco-India planned to create job opportunities for the local people on a priority basis in construction work.
Cho, who visited the training centre at Jagatsinghpur today, said, "we will build the steel plant together with the local people.
Posco-India was also formulating a resettlement and rehabilitation (r and r) package based on the new Orissa R and R policy, 2006, for the families likely to be displaced.
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