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RDSDE – Telangana to explore
collaboration opportunities for NSTI

capacity augmentation
A meeting was held today at RDSDE-
Telangana to explore collaboration
opportunities for NSTI capacity
augmentation. Around 35 industry
representatives, along with IMC members,
participated, offering valuable feedback.
The discussions focused on strengthening
partnerships between industry and skill
development institutions to enhance
training quality, infrastructure, and
employability. The meeting was chaired by
Shri. K. Srinivas Rao, RD, RDSDE Telangana
& AP. Key officials from DGT, including Shri.
Hemant D. Ganjare (Director, CFI), C. Yuvraj
(Regional Director I/c, RDSDE-Kerala), Shri.
Ketan P. Patel (JD, RDSDE-Gujarat) and Amit
Kumar Yadav (DD, CFI) provided insights
into the scheme and contributed valuable inputs. Shri. and the Principals of NSTI V, R, and W, along with their
Sanjay Kumar, Advisor - DGT, offered his perspectives, teams, also attended the meeting

Success Story: Empowering Women through Skill Development - The Journey of Ms. Biswa Pujarini
Mohapatra

The story of Ms. Biswa Pujarini excellence, which led her to pursue
Mohapatra stands as a testament an MCA from ICFAI and a General
to the transformative impact Management Program from ISB.
of skill development initiatives Her career progression took her to
spearheaded by the Central Wells Fargo and Novartis, where
Government through Industrial she further honed her technical and
Training Institutes (ITIs) across the leadership skills. Eventually, her
country. Her journey - from an ITI expertise and dedication led her to
trainee to a Director of Engineering Microsoft, where she now serves as
at Microsoft - highlights the role a Director of Engineering, leading
of practical education in shaping teams and driving innovation in
careers and breaking barriers. software engineering. Alongside
her corporate career, Biswa also
From an early age, Biswa displayed her loved ones enabled her to break founded Hostelngp, an online
a keen interest in understanding these stereotypes and pursue her platform that facilitates hostels
how things worked. Rather than aspirations. At ITI Bhubaneswar, and PG accommodations. Like her,
simply playing with toys, she would she gained extensive hands-on many students have discovered
disassemble and reassemble them, experience, including assembling their potential through ITI programs,
driven by curiosity and a strong and disassembling equipment, enabling them to succeed in highly
desire to learn. Recognizing this industry visits, and practical training competitive industries.
inclination, her father encouraged in labs, which prepared her for the
her to explore the ITI courses, which professional world. Her journey inspired young
emphasized hands-on learning and aspirants, especially women, to
industry-relevant training. pursue their dreams fearlessly,
After completing her training at ITI, break barriers, and contribute
Biswa embarked on her professional
One of the major challenges journey at Tech Mahindra, where to India’s skilled workforce. We
Biswa faced was gender bias, she applied her technical expertise extend our best wishes to Ms. Biswa
as engineering was traditionally to significant projects, gaining real- Pujarini Mohapatra.
considered a male-dominated world experience. She believes in
field in the 1990s. However, her continuous learning and striving for
determination and the support of