Bhubaneswar: The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is conducting multiple capacity building workshops for the India Skills Competition 2018, across various locations in the city from March 8 to 15.

Workshops on hospitality management are being held at the Institute of Hotel Management while workshops focused on welding, milling and other industrial skills will take place at the Central Tool Room and Training Centre.

NSDC is organising these workshops in 20 states to raise awareness for the competitions as well as to provide organisers, local industry, academia, trainers and potential competitors a detailed understanding of preparation for the competitions.

The winner of India Skills 2018 will get an opportunity to take part in the World Skills Competition to be held in Russia in 2019. India Skills Competition is India's first national skills competition and an initiative of the NSDC.

Through its initiative, NSDC has been leading the country's participation at the World Skills International Competitions since 2011.

It is a biennial competition, which provides a platform where youths can display their skills with utmost perfection and make the country proud.

"The aim of the workshop is to give a technical orientation for the competitions set to begin in March 2018 in the 20 states. The states have partnered to conduct state level skills competition which when completed would lead to regional and national competition," said executive director NSDC Jayant Krishna.

The workshop is focused on technical description of the skill, assessment norms, test projects and others.

Previous participants of World Skills India in collaboration with NSDC and other experts will draw on their own experience to better prepare the new participants.

The various categories in which youths can showcase their talent include brick laying, wall and floor tiling, electronics, welding, web designing, graphic design-ing, beauty therapy, cooking, it software solution for business, etc.

The state governments will be conducting district and local competitions in each state to select the best skilled person from their respective states.

The state champions will be called for regional competitions where they will be showcasing their skills in that particular region. After the regional competitions, the top scorer will make it to the India Skills competitions.