National Thermal Power Corportion’s (NTPC) Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project based at Kudgi in Vijayapur district, as part of CSR initiative, has signed a MoU with the Karnataka Industrial Training and Employment office, Bengaluru.

G Sathyavathi, Karnataka Commissioner for Department of Technical Education, and Jayanarayanan, Head-HR, NTPC, signed the MoU.

The MoU envisages reservation of 20 per cent of the seats in government-run Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Vijayapur which will enable local students in and around Kudgi project of NTPC to get ITI training.

The entire cost of the training fee, tuition fee and all other expenses will be borne by NTPC Ltd. The agreement is signed for a period of five years. NTPC has also agreed to provide new equipment for the training at ITI, Vijayapura to the tune of Rs 1.5 crore. Out of this, more than 50 lakh worth of equipment have been already handed over to ITI. One of these equipment is a unique machine - welding simulator which costs Rs 13 lakh.

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