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Skill Box: Building an Eco-system to deal with India’s Skill Deficit

By   /  July 15, 2016  /  #Top News, Career Corner, HR Guru  /  Comments Off on Skill Box: Building an Eco-system to deal with India’s Skill Deficit

By Surya Prakash Mohapatra, Bangalore:  This is the second article in the Skill Box series. In my first article, we discussed how the large pool of graduates emerging from the Universities, B-Schools, Engineering Colleges are not living upto the expectations of the Industry. Organizations across multiple sectors are struggling to find skilled, employable talent from […]

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The world including India celebrates UN World Youth Skills Day

By   /  July 14, 2016  /  #Alert, #Top News, Global News, Skill  /  Comments Off on The world including India celebrates UN World Youth Skills Day

By Rudra Narayan Sahoo, Mumbai: July 15 is World Youth Skills Day, and a host of programmes and events have been lined up. First, the United Nations is observing the day with a special event on the theme of “Skills Development to Improve Youth Employment.”  The event will be facilitated by the UN Envoy on […]

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Union Cabinet approves Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) version 2.0

By   /  July 14, 2016  /  #Top News, Skill  /  Comments Off on Union Cabinet approves Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) version 2.0

New Delhi: Now, financial support to trainees under Skill India campaign will be given in the form of travel allowance, boarding and lodging costs. Post placement support would be given directly to the beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Disbursement of training cost to training partners will be linked to Aadhaar and biometrics for better […]

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UNESCO – UNEVOC will celebrate UN World Youth Skills Day on 15 July 2016 in a big way

By   /  July 13, 2016  /  #Alert, #Top News, Global News, Skill  /  Comments Off on UNESCO – UNEVOC will celebrate UN World Youth Skills Day on 15 July 2016 in a big way

Mumbai:  To raise awareness about the importance of youth skills development, UNESCO – UNEVOC will celebrate the United Nations World Youth Skills Day on 15 July 2016 (Friday) and has lined up a host of programmes this day. On World Youth Skills Day 2016, UNESCO will launch a new mission Strategy TVET 2016-2021 (TVET stands […]

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Google launches Android skilling program for India to push mobile app development ecosystem

By   /  July 12, 2016  /  #Top News, Digital Box, Skill  /  Comments Off on Google launches Android skilling program for India to push mobile app development ecosystem

By Rudra Narayan Sahoo, Mumbai: India is emerging to become a global leader in mobile app development. As per Evans report 2015, India will have four million software developers by 2018, becoming the largest population of developers in the world. But today, less than 25% of these developers are trained to develop and build for […]

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Rural women solar engineers (Solar Mamas) present a skill demonstration to PM in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania)

By   /  July 11, 2016  /  #Top News, Global News, Skill  /  Comments Off on Rural women solar engineers (Solar Mamas) present a skill demonstration to PM in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania)

Tanzania/New Delhi:  A group of about 30 “solar mamas” from Tanzania and a few other African countries demonstrated their skills in fabrication, repair and maintenance of solar lanterns and household lighting systems to the Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi, yesterday. They also presented their honey-extraction and stitching practices and sung a song “we […]

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World Youth Skills Day: The President will inaugurate first edition of India Skills Competition on 15 July 2016

By   /  July 9, 2016  /  #Alert, #Top News, Learning & Training, Skill  /  Comments Off on World Youth Skills Day: The President will inaugurate first edition of India Skills Competition on 15 July 2016

New Delhi: The President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, will inaugurate the first edition of India Skills Competition on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day on 15 July, 2016.  Skill India will be celebrating its first anniversary on the occasion. India Skills Competition is a national contest pioneered by Ministry of Skill Development & […]

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India sets up an apparel training centre in Nigeria for promoting skill development in apparel manufacturing

By   /  July 8, 2016  /  #Top News, Global News, Skill  /  Comments Off on India sets up an apparel training centre in Nigeria for promoting skill development in apparel manufacturing

New Delhi: The government of India set up an Apparel Training Centre in Kaduna, Nigeria under the Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (Cotton TAP) for Africa which is being implemented by Department of Commerce, Government of India under 2nd  India Africa Forum Summit. This is a first of its kind centre in Nigeria set up in […]

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Now skill development programmes for highway construction workers

By   /  July 4, 2016  /  #Top News, Skill  /  Comments Off on Now skill development programmes for highway construction workers

New Delhi: Minister of Road Transport& Highways and Shipping Mr Nitin Gadkari has appealed highways builders, contractors, and skill development institutions to come forward to train the local, unemployed youth in highways construction, and to upgrade the skills of existing highways construction workers. Chairing a meeting of Ministry officials with representatives of National Highways Builders […]

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Centre for Innovation: NITI Aayog launches 500 Tinkering Labs for Schools and 100 Incubation Centres

By   /  May 26, 2016  /  #Top News, Skill  /  Comments Off on Centre for Innovation: NITI Aayog launches 500 Tinkering Labs for Schools and 100 Incubation Centres

New Delhi: NITI Aayog is inviting applications from eligible schools/ organisations and individuals to apply for the three major schemes under Atal Innovation Mission: (1) establishing tinkering laboratories in schools (2) establishing new incubation centres and (3) scaling-up established incubation centres. Important Dates: Atal Tinkering Laboratorie: Last date of submission of applications: 17th June 2016 […]

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