Learnet Skills (formerly IL&FS Skills Development Corporation) has launched a pro-bono initiative called “AVSAR”– Migrant Workers Counselling Centres across 60 districts in 9 states in India to guide migrant workers and help them sustain their living amid the ongoing pandemics crisis with employment opportunities as per their skill sets. The proposed initiative is aimed at counselling the returned migrant workers about the alternate …

 Will offer Free Certification Courses on Safe Practices for Food Business Operators during COVID-19 The Food Industry Capacity & Skill Initiative (FICSI), the Sector Skill Council for Food Processing has announced the launch of its Learning Management System (LMS) under the name ‘FICSI Online Training & Assessment Academy’, with an aim to provide skilling in Food Processing sector through the …

The 3-day skill development and entrepreneurship event is packed with 24 sessions, led by 50+ brightest minds as eminent speakers and panelists  National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), in partnership with The/Nudge Foundation, and supported bythe deAsra Foundation and G.A.M.E. India are co-organising the Skill Development and Entrepreneurship event at #charcha2020 scheduled from May 14th to May 16th, 2020. The virtual event aims to act as a platform towards enabling constructive …

Online learning platform, Coursera, will provide unemployed workers with free access to 3,800 online courses under this initiative.  The initiative also includes Professional Certificates, like the Google IT Support Professional Certificate, designed specifically to train people for high-demand jobs. Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative is part of the Coursera for Government offering, which was launched in 2017 to equip government employees and citizens with …

NSDC’s eLearning aggregator portal — eSkill India portal now offers more than 400 courses curated from various knowledge providers.  In the recent weeks, eSkillIndia has partnered with EnglishScore, SAS India, Saylor Academy (USA) and UpGrad, thereby providing skill seekers with varied online skilling opportunities. With strategic knowledge partnerships, the portal leverages technology in continuing the skilling momentum and enables skill seekers accelerate their learning through methods …

As a part of the Government’s preparedness to fight the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has decided to make available all 33 National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs) and their hostels across the country for conversion into quarantine/ isolation facilities. The decision was taken by the Ministry to align its efforts with …