Sri Debi Prasad Mishra, Minister Industries, School & Mass Education graced the occasion as Chief Guest. Speaking on the occasion Sri Mishra emphasized the importance of imparting training at school level for skill development. Educated youths are remaining unemployed due to lack of skill & training. He also emphasized upon development of skill without diluting the traditional skill and originalities.
Sri L. N. Gupta, Principal Secretary, Employment, Technical Education and Training, Govt of Odisha highlighted about the ongoing projects run by the State Government in this direction. Dr Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of
Management, New Delhi and Chairman, organising committee in his welcome address presented the data of required skilled people in India.
Sri Bharat Kumar Jaiswal, Regional Director, ASSOCHAM in his address spoke about the demographic divide in India and the big responsibility of providing employment to millions of youths. India is turning out to be a high growth market which will need employment in a big way. But due to lack of skill large number of youths remains
unemployed, he said. Skilling India Award-2015 was given to 8 universities for their excellence in various fields in the occasion.