IT literacy course may be mandatory for govt employees

OKCL has been set up as public limited company with joint equity of Odisha govt, MKCL

Government employees in Odisha aspiring for promotions to their coveted posts may have to undergo a compulsory IT literacy course designed by Odisha Knowledge Corporation Ltd (OKCL).

OKCL has been set up as a public limited company with joint equity of the Odisha government and the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation.

The course designed by OKCL has been named OS-CIT, envisioned as a complete computer literacy course for every citizen.

At a high-level meeting chaired by state chief secretary J K Mohapatra, it was proposed to make this course compulsory for all government employees for recruitment and promotions. OKCL has also been instructed to design IT literacy courses for students at secondary and higher secondary levels.

OKCL has taken up e-learning, e-empowerment and e- governance projects for promotion of IT & ITes ( IT enabled services) in Odisha. In the e-learning process, the learner is exposed to world class real life case studies of socially useful and productive outputs.

OKCL has already promoted more than 200 authorized learning centres in different parts of the state on the PPP (public private partnership) mode and more than 1300 learners have been registered till now. Santosh Birari, managing director of OKCL said during the meeting that another 800 centres will be opened during this fiscal.

OKCL has successfully completed GSSK (Gram Sabha Sashaktikaran Karyakram) in which data uploading and analysis of gram sabhas could be done on the following day of the conduct of gram sabha.

The corporation has also envisaged future projects like Secured Remote Paper Distribution process for examination in colleges to avoid leakage of question papers.