The Union Cabinet yesterday approved the merger of the existing regulatory institutions in the skills space – National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) and the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) into the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET). The existing infrastructure and resources will be utilized for the most part. NCVET will regulate the functioning of entities engaged …

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.  …

At the second meeting of the Association of Indian Skills Universities (AISU), a body created by the Skills Universities in India, met recently to chalk out a strategy to have its representatives included in the UGC committee and other government committees to ensure that they can guide the authorities accordingly and come up with efficient norms which would help in …

Centum Learning, one of India’s leading skill development and corporate training company and an NSDC partner on October 6 forayed into the hill state of Uttarakhand and opened a Multi-Skill Development Centre at Sitarganj, in Udham Singh Nagar district in partnership with Uttarakhand Skill Development Mission (UKSDM). The centre was formally inaugurated by A. A Hashmi, Auditor –UKSDM and Principal, …

A Multi-Skill Development Centre was inaugurated on June 24 at Jharsuguda, Odisha under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a GOI scheme that focuses on addressing the occupational aspirations of rural youth and enhancing their skills for wage employment. Delhi-based skills training company, Centum Learning which is partnering the union ministry of Rural Development for this project, will …

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 …