IGNOU to start training in Kandhamal

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will start a vocational education and training centre in Orissa's Kandhamal district, recently hit by communal riots.

"The new centre of studies will become a nurturing ground of their (residents') latent vocational talent for gainful economical life and capacity-building and growth by education," IGNOU said in a communique.

The centre, which would be named as IGNOU Institute of Vocational and Educational Training, will be located in Malgundi village of Phulwani town, the administrative headquarter of Khandhamal district, it said. The educational Consultants of India, a wing of Human Resources Ministry, would provide the logistic support to the Centre in its bid to cater to "disadvantaged persons" of the area, it said.

Recently, the Vice Chancellor of the IGNOU has laid the foundation stone of the Centre which could enable its students in getting gainful employment, it added.