PROJECT PREMA

An innovative professional and vocational training initiative Project PREMA has been launched by PREM in association with AXIS bank foundation of Mumbai.

Honourable Chief Minister of Odisha Sri. Naveen Patnaik formally inaugurated the program at Mandiapalli the PREM Headquarters on 26th April 2011 in presence of Ms. Shikha Sharma, Managing Director cum Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Bank, Mumbai. The project designed for five years duration aims at imparting vocational and professional skills to 10025 Adivasi and Dalit youths of Odisha.

Project PREMA will cover 4 districts of the state of Odisha – Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal and Puri. The youths from disadvantage sections of the society will be provided with skill training on computer hardware, computer software, hotel management, nursing electronics, advance agriculture, motor vehicle driving, security guard, kewada mat weaving and craft designing and Grihini ( a women oriented livelihood and leadership program). About 80% of the prospective trainees will be selected from the women category. The project will also search avenues for employment prospects for the trained candidates.

Sri Naveen Patnaik and Ms Shikha Sharma along with other distinguished guests inaugurating the broucher of Project PREMA

	PREM has continued imparting adult, non-formal, formal and vocational education at underdeveloped and non-accessible areas of in Odisha and its neighboring states for past 26 years. During last 15 years concentrated efforts were undertaken to provide formal education to about 12,000 Adivasi and Dalit children. The present initiatives is expected to help those under privileged to gain meaningful employment.