--500 hostels to be built for
tribal students at college level
BHUBANESWAR:
“We have targeted to set up 32,000 units in MSME sector thereby crating
employment opportunities for about 1.6 lakh people of our State,” said Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik while inaugurating the Foresight programme organised by
the OTV here on Wednesday.
Patnaik said the State in recent
times has been a hub for higher education in the eastern region of the country.
Many institutes of national and international repute are running their centres
in the State, he added. “We also have a vision for skill up-gradation of nearly
one million youth in next five years,” Patnaik asserted, adding, “We have given
maximum importance to small industries in the 12th five-year plan that will
create huge employment opportunities for our youth.”
The Chief Minister further said
that his Government is building hostels to facilitate education of tribal
girls. They have decided to build 500 hostels in next five years for tribal
students at college level. Moreover, schools, colleges, scholarships, bi-cycles
and other facilities were being provided for improvement in the education of this
very significant section of our population, he added.
Patnaik also said that a stagnant
economy with a growth rate of four per cent in the year of 2000 accelerated to
nine per cent during the period 2001-10, while the State has reported highest
reduction in poverty by 20.2 percentage points from 57.2 percent in 2004-05 to
37 percent in 2009-10. The State economy grew at 8.23 per cent against 7.9 per
cent at the national level during 11th plan in spite the adverse impacts of
global economic slowdown, he added.
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