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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 & […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →Government to form a National Board for assessment and certification of skill development programmes
New Delhi: The government of India plans to form National Skill Certification Board, which will assess and certify skill development programmes across the country, where both government and industry will collectively enable a joint framework for quality skill training and certification. Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs […]
Read More →India’s Demographic Dividend: demand – supply in job market will worsen in next 35 years
Mumbai: Much has been talked on India’s democratic dividend. In the next 35 years India is going to dominate the world’s working age population as per UNDP’s recent released report on Regional Human Development Report on Asia-Pacific. However, the creation of job opportunities is limited in India to absorb the new additional working age population, […]
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