The Indian team for WorldSkills International Competition 2019 scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to 27th August 2019,  will leave for the Russian city this weekend and will participate in 44 skills including mobile robotics, prototype modelling, hairdressing, baking, confectionary & patisserie, welding, brick laying, car painting, floristry among others.  Referred to as the ‘Olympics for Skills’, the largest …

4th Anniversary of WORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY: July 15 is the World Youth Skills Day and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for the past four years has been celebrating the day in a high profile manner ostensibly to promote Skill India initiative announced by the Prime Minister Modi. A regular to the event for the past three …

Apprenticeship Schemes fail to take off in a big way, Govt ready to do more if required An abysmal 0.1% of workforce in India comprises of apprentices in comparison to much higher percentages in other parts of the world. With bulk of the employment (more than 60%) coming from MSME sector (medium & small sector enterprises), the linkages to apprenticeship …

 AkzoNobel, a paints and coats MNC and makers of Dulux Paints in India, on Jan 11 announced its partnership with SOS Children’s Villages of India with the objective of helping the latter’s skill development initiatives with AkzoNobel’s “Let’s Colour” program. At international level, partnership between AkzoNobel and SOS Children’s Villages International has been already launched in 2017. In 2018, Let’s …

Your neighborhood carpenter, plumber, car mechanic and other technicians won’t look the same ordinary fellows any more in coming years. They will sound more like engineers, proficient problem solvers and businesslike educated guys. Chances are, you will confront a Ph D carpenter, who will change your worldview completely about skilled human capital. On the outskirts of Jaipur in the Mahindra …

Furthering Prime Minister Modi’s bilateral visit to Japan, and seeking to deepen ties between the two friend countries, under a memorandum of cooperation signed between India and Japan, MSDE had started a Technical Training Programme (TITP) in Japan under which interns from India do their internships in Japan and thereby  replicate Japan-like efficiency in our country, once they come back.  …