Cyient, SIDBI Launch AI Skills Centre in Nagaland

By SE Online Bureau · November 16, 2025 · 5 min(s) read
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Cyient, SIDBI Launch AI Skills Centre in Nagaland

In a corner move toward expanding digital commission and future-ready skilling in India’s Northeastregion, the Cyient Foundation, the commercial social responsibility arm of Cyient, has partnered with the SIDBI Swavalamban Foundation to launch an AI & Unborn Chips Center of Excellence (CoE) in Dimapur, Nagaland. The center has been established at the Nagaland Tool Room & Training Centre (NTTC), an institution known for its part in specialized education and skill development in the state. This action signals a major vault forward in standardizing access to advanced technologies and bridging the digital peak in the region. 

The recently inaugurated center reflects a significant investment in the future of Nagaland’s youth. It aims to enhance original employability and entrepreneurship by equipping scholars with chops aligned to global technological trends, especially in artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital invention. The design was inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, whose presence underlined the central government’s emphasis on inclusive growth and technological advancement across every region of India. Also present during the induction ceremony were Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister Y. Patton and Cyient Author Chairman Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy, demonstrating strong collaboration among government, industry leadership, and indigenous stakeholders to hoist underserved communities through digital education. 

The Cyient Foundation has served as the program operation and perpetration partner for this action, taking on a pivotal part in conceptualizing, designing, and executing the Center of Excellence from the ground up. This includes establishing a state-of-the-art training ecosystem, relating high-demand skill disciplines, integrating AI-driven classes, and erecting hookups for long-term sustainability. Through this center, the foundation aims to ensure that technological skilling doesn’t remain limited to large metropolitan capitals but reaches regions like Nagaland that are full of untapped potential. 

The AI & Unborn Chops Center of Excellence intends to offer transformative skilling modules in fields that combine creativity, tradition, and technological invention. One of the unique aspects of this action is its focus on blending ultramodern technology with traditional skill sectors. For example, the center will give technical AI-integrated programs in handloom and handicraft, a sector that’s deeply embedded in Nagaland’s artistic identity. By bringing technology-enabled tools, digital design capabilities, and robotization perceptivity to original crafters, the program aims to contemporize traditional crafts, enhance productivity, and produce new livelihood openings. This crossroad of technology and tradition has the implicit ability to open up fresh requests and enable crafters to engage with digital products and online commerce on a larger scale. 

In addition to this, the center will offer comprehensive courses in AI, software coding, robotics, and digital technologies—fields that are increasingly driving the future of global employment. The ideal isn’t only to train youth for being job requests but also to prepare them for arising fields similar to robotization engineering, data-driven design, machine literacy operations, and robotics-supported manufacturing. These sectors represent fleetingly growing openings, and the CoE aims to place Nagaland’s youth so they’re capable of contending for both public and transnational career prospects. 

A pivotal outgrowth anticipated from this action is the reduction of employability gaps that frequently hamper the professional growth of youth in the Northeast. Despite high knowledge rates and strong innovative instincts, numerous scholars in the region face challenges penetrating advanced training installations, assiduity-applicable classes, and practical hands-on exposure to new technologies. By bringing a high-quality skilling installation directly to Dimapur, Cyient Foundation and SIDBI Swavalamban Foundation are removing walls and enabling youth to learn, exercise, and introduce themselves without having to resettle long distances. 

The Center of Excellence also aims to encourage entrepreneurship by equipping trainees with tech-enabled problem-solving capacities and digital tools that allow them to convert their ideas into sustainable businesses. This is anticipated to support the larger thing of strengthening the incipient ecosystem in the Northeast, a region that’s sluggishly arising as a rich ground for invention-driven enterprises. Through hookups with original institutions, government agencies, and industry collaborators, the center will help aspiring entrepreneurs access mentorship, incubation support, and exposure to real-world challenges. 

Digital addition remains a central guiding principle behind the action. Numerous communities in the Northeasthave limited access to high-end technological structure, which widens the digital peak and restricts openings. With the establishment of this center, Cyient Foundation and SIDBI aim to ensure indifferent access to ultramodern technologies, irrespective of terrain or socioeconomic background. The training programs will be accessible to scholars, crafters, jobless youth, and youthful professionals who wish to upgrade their chops in alignment with the demands of Assiduity 4.0. 

The involvement of the SIDBI Swavalamban Foundation further enhances the vision of enabling profitable adaptability and self-reliance. Known for its work in promoting entrepreneurship and supporting micro and small enterprises, SIDBI’s part signifies a commitment to expanding profitable participation through skill structure and technological exposure. By integrating skilling with entrepreneurial pathways, the action seeks to strengthen the foundation for sustainable profitable development across Nagaland. 

The induction of the AI & unborn CHOPs Center of Excellence marks a transformative step toward erecting a technologically advanced pool in the Northeast. With an emphasis on invention, self-reliance, and community upliftment, the design aligns nearly with India’s broader pretensions of digital metamorphosis and inclusive growth. It stands as an important illustration of how commercial social responsibility, when aligned with indigenous requirements and public precedents, can produce meaningful and long-continuing impact. 

As the center becomes completely functional, it’s anticipated to train thousands of youthful individualities in the coming times, fostering a new generation of professed professionals capable of contributing to the digital frugality. The action not only expands the horizon for original gifts but also strengthens India’s position as a global mecca for technology and invention. Through this center, Dimapur is poised to become a lamp of digital literacy and future chops development in the region, emblematizing a new period of occasion and commission for the people of Nagaland.

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