Bhubaneswar, May 18 -- Bhubaneswar: In a significant step towards boosting the education sector in Odisha, the State government has decided to impart skill training to best selected higher secondary school teachers with the help of a special programme initiated by the country's premier science and research establishment, the Indian Institute of Science (BSc), Bengaluru.

The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education through a letter on May 13 has directed heads of all government, non-government and aided higher secondary schools of the State to sponsor the name of their best and young teachers for enrolment in a training programme under the S&ME Department through Talent Development Centre, Science and Society Programme, IISc.

The govern...