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Skilling India, Transforming India

Technology and the development of new

skills have become essential in every
field related to the nation and society.
Whether it is education or health, labour

or industry, village or city, government
or corporate, the significance of these

elements has grown even more in
the post-COVID world. As a result,
India has given a new direction to skill

development, with the nation's youth
opening doors of development and
progress for themselves by grooming

their lives with skills. Furthermore, skills,
re-skilling, and up-skilling have become
a mantra for millions of youth and

underserved groups seeking employment
with skills. The "Skill India Mission" is

transforming the youth into the best
human resources and giving skills a new
identity, allowing the nation's resolve

of a self-reliant India to be realised, the
foundation of which was laid 7 years ago

with long-term thinking.

y family's financial situation had worsened from Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, whose
since my father's untimely death. There family has been given a new direction by the skill
Mare also two deaf and dumb sisters in the development campaign.
house. We were upset. Then I learned about Jan Similarly, Pooja Rani, from Haryana, is
Shikshan Sansthan, which provides district-level leading her life by training to care for patients in
skill development training. I studied fashion design hospitals, while Imran, who was unsure about his
there. Now, I work at the same skill development future after finishing 12th, realised he could do
centre to impart skills training to the deaf and something in life after attending training at the
dumb. My entire family and I are very happy right Prime Minister's Skill Development Programme.
now because I am getting a good salary and "I had never used a computer before coming
the opportunity to train people. This calm and to the skill development centre and had no
confident expression is of Nilofar, a young woman idea about my skills," says Ravindra Sharma of

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