GUWAHATI: Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Tripura and NEDFi signed an MoU on September 15, 2022, under the Advancing North East project for career mentoring of students of the schools run by the Tribal Welfare Department, Tripura.
Advancing North East is an initiative of the North Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER and NEDFi for mentoring the youths of North East in terms of Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. The MoU was signed by Dr Vishal Kumar, Director, Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Tripura and S K Baruah, Executive Director, NEDFi at a ceremony organized at the office of the Directorate of Tribal Welfare, Government of Tripura at Gurkhabasti, Agartala. Under the collaboration, 30 teachers from the schools run by the Department will be trained under the Advancing North East project as Career Mentors who will guide the students through a systematic approach. The initiative will ensure the availability of in-house support in the schools in terms of career mentoring and Advancing North East will act as a resource centre for them. Further, within 6 months, the students will be connected to the career ecosystem through career talks with various experts, entrance exam talks with toppers, entrepreneurship mindset development sessions and exposure to premier national level institutions such as IIT, IIM, NID, NIFT, NIT etc. During the ceremony, Dr Vishal Kumar stated that the 30 teachers nominated by the Department will act as a master trainers in Department's effort to empower the students with informed career decision making and they will create a cascading effect in the coming days by developing more number of teachers to make the whole effort sustainable and process driven. The project in its first phase is expected to impact approximately 2,500 students studying in the schools run by the Department. In his remark, SK Baruah, Executive Director, NEDFi stated that Advancing North East aims to create a strong career and livelihood ecosystem in the northeastern region through collaboration with critical stakeholders in all the NER states. The event was also attended by Prithviraj Neog, Team Leader, Advancing North East project, Dinesh Kumar Lahoti, Head Career Coach, Advancing North East project and other senior officials of Tribal Welfare Department and Tripura Rural Livelihood Mission, a press release said.
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