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Skilling India, Transforming India
Digital Skill Building with AICTE
The Ministry of Education and
Skill Development has launched
a digital skill building programme Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to establish India as the
in collaboration with the All India skill development capital of the world. The world is undergoing
Council for Technical Education to unprecedented changes and skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling are
train students in future emerging the need of the hour. We have to make skill development a mass
technologies such as cloud movement. The government is acting as a facilitator in preparing
computing, big data, data analytics, a strong workforce for the future. Efforts to create greater synergy
cyber security, blockchain, drones, between education and skill development in the new National
and robotics.
By conducting courses of three and Education Policy are also an important step in this direction.
Dharmendra Pradhan,
six months, 1.10 crore students will Union Minister, Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
be trained under this.
Students will be given internships
in addition to technical training.
Internship opportunities will be made
available to 10 lakh students in the
Rural Development Department, 5
lakh in the Railways, 1 lakh in the
Ministry of Cooperation, and 1 lakh
in the Ministry of Education and Skill
Development.
'YUWAAH KAUSHAL' : A PASSPORT-TO-
EARNING PROGRAMME WITH UNICEF recently relocated from cities to villages.
Skill India Mission now helps millions of young
people each year by training them for today's needs.
Special emphasis has been placed on developing
a digital skilling eco-system in the country and
developing skills in line with industry demand.
Every citizen should value it because no successful
person misses the chance to sharpen his skills.
UNICEF and Microsoft have launched Skill is not the only way to make a living and money.
YuWaah Kaushal, a Passport-to-Earning To live, we need to be enthusiastic and stubborn;
(P2E) programme to empower youth then skill becomes our driving force and works as
in entrepreneurship, employability, and energy with new inspiration. Whether you are young
social skills. This e-learning solution aims or old, learning new skills keeps your enthusiasm
to provide free job-related skills to youth for life alive.
while also providing opportunities for Certainly, the new India has chosen a new path
entrepreneurship, employment, and social for itself, and it will continue to do so because it has
impact. India was the first country to begun to implement policies of skill development
implement P2E. and job creation in accordance with global
standards, in accordance with the resolutions of
Amrit Kaal.
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