North Eastern Council (NEC) Secretary, K Moses Chalai today inaugurated the project namely Digital Design Labs for Livelihood Generation today here at Don Bosco Technical School, Shillong.
This project is being funded by NEC at a cost of about Rs 5 crore combined with ACC Institute, Senapati, Manipur. The centres developed will be providing training of use case deployment for technologies namely Graphic Designing and Animation with high end software. Later on, it will move towards 3D printing, 5G applications, digital designing of training/ instructional videos/3D Animations in different languages including local North East languages.
On the occasion, Leihaothabam Johnson Sharma who is one of the engaged instructors and mentor also spoke. He shared the wide range of opportunities the project will bring to the youth of the North East region.
Sharma is a renowned digital designer who took part in well known Hollywood, Bollywood projects and famous TV programmes. Currently he is devoted to digital learning with well known institutions including from abroad.
The day marks as one of the modest initiatives in the North East towards Digital and 4.0 Industry journey which will open up to huge scope and opportunities ahead in digital space in the days to come.
NEC along with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is starting a training programme in March 2023 namely Animation 3D courses for 100 youths of North East in Delhi. Very soon, NEC along with the Ministry of DONER and AMTRON will take up 3D Printing projects in the eight North East states, which would be a revolutionary move.
Also, along with AMTRON, NEC will also take up 5G Applications training in the eight North East states, which will be up and running in the next two or three months again to open up multiple opportunities as 5G is already underway. NER is already quite challenged in terms of economic transformation and job opportunities particularly for the youth. Today’s initiative is in line with the vision of the Prime Minister when he addressed the NEC Plenary in Shillong in 2016 and emphasised the need for economic transformation in the North East region from time to time.
Present in today’s event were NEC Economic Adviser (E&M) Sherry Lalthangzo, NEC Director (S&T) Director Tanung Jamoh, AMTRON Managing Director S Sundar, Fr. Sagi Stephan of Don Bosco Technical School, Shillong, ALIMCO officers, and other senior officers of NEC.
