Government has an ambitious plan to scale up skill training in the country and has decided to cover at least 1.5 crore people during 2016-2017. A Central Board for Skills Certification will be set up by September 2016 to infuse quality into India’s skill development ecosystem. These decisions were taken up in the first meeting of the Governing Council of …
World War II, India’s independence and partition, all factored in this extraordinary story. Gordhandas P. Bharwani had started trading in big Radios, Gramophones & Valve Radios, which were in vogue post- war under the name of Jetking and as partition brought him to Mumbai from Pakistan he set up a portable radio manufacturing factory in a suburb of India’s commercial …
ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST ever World Youth Skills Day on 15th July 2015, when the country kickstarted Skill India campaing, 150 Skill Vans were flagged off to create awareness among masses about the Government’s initiatives and policies of the skill development. These vans, which were flagged off by MSDE minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy will drive through Delhi and …
On July 15 coinciding with the first ever World Youth Skills Day, India relaunched a repackaged Skill Development initiative first brought into existence in 2009. The new initiative comprises of a National Skill Development Mission, a new National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme, the Skill Loan scheme and a national skill …
Training in manufacturing, construction and plumbing sectors incentivized. At the same time, some experts see it as a replica of STAR Scheme with little change The Rs 1500 cr Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) would soon be rolling and fanning out as the government has finalized the scheme. It aims to encourage standardization in the certification process and initiate …
Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) will institute an annual Distinguished Indologist award for promoting Indology aboard. This was said by President Pranab Mukherjee on his visit to Russia and announced that ICCR will organize a regional conference on Sanskrit and Indology in Russia. Support for the Indian Chair in the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Social …
