A Trade in Hand: Diplomas and Skills at OIST

A skill behaves differently from a handout — it stays with the person who learns it and keeps paying out for years. Through the OfP Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), we help young people in Jaldhaka turn training into a livelihood.

OIST offers three four-year diplomas — in civil, computer and automobile engineering — alongside a range of shorter, certified skill-training courses.

Students working in the OIST computer lab — Learning by doing in the OIST computer lab.

The skill-training programmes span IT Support and Computer Applications, Masonry, General Caregiving (Level 2), Driving (Level 3, with a special focus on women), Electrical Installation and Maintenance for Construction (Level 2), Digital Marketing for Freelancing (Level 3), and Competency-Based Training and Assessment Methodology (Level 4).

Students in hands-on skills training — Hands-on training, from the workshop to the field.

Together these open different routes forward: a job, a freelance income, a small business, or further professional study — with a deliberate effort to bring more women into trades that have long excluded them. The aim is simple: that a young person leaves with something the world will pay for, and the confidence to use it.