The government will soon launch the National digital platforms in sectors like agriculture, education, healthcare, logistics using latest technologies. This was said by Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt of India while addressing a webinar ‘Digital Bharat 2020: Digital-The New Normal’, organized by FICCI, jointly with his ministry. Sawhney said that his ministry is moving forward to the actual …

The theme of World Youth Skills 2020 i.e. ‘Skills for a Resilient Youth’ is set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resultant challenges are plenty with a rise in unemployment, digital becoming the new normal and adapting to new-age learning based on relentless advances in technology like mobile technologies, AI, Machine Learning, green energy, drone technology etc., becoming a …

On World Youth Skills Day, UNICEF India today announced its partnership with SAP India to provide career counselling to young people in the country that will improve their employability skills in a COVID and post COVID era. UNICEF is collaborating with YuWaah (Generation Unlimited) under this initiative to provide digital education and occupational skillset to the underserved young people of …

ASEEM https://smis.nsdcindia.org/, also available as an ASEEM APP, is acronym of  ‘Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping’ -developed and managed by NSDC in collaboration with Bengaluru-based blue collar employment company, Betterplace, has already about 300 employers onboard. Job seekers can upload their profiles and get tracked besides staying informed on trends, upskilling and host of other information services If one department …

Union skills minister,  Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, today said that skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling of the India’s workforce will play a crucial role in the success of the Government’s vision of Atmnirbhar Bharat and the recently launched Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan.He said that if required the government would give permission to run PMKVY centres and ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes) in …

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 …