With an aim to promote uptake of domain specific apprentices by various Central Ministries/Departments, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship through “Skill Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP)” program has designed an initiativeto fund stipend for 1,000 apprentices across the Central Ministries/Departments (around 20 apprentices per Ministry/ Department) for a period of one year.
So far, seven Central Ministries/Departments have responded to the initiative and have been permitted to deploy 107 apprentices.
Following are the category of apprentices that will be engaged:
- Apprentices with Vocational Certificate – 300Nosat monthly stipend of Rs,7,000.
- Apprentices with Diploma – 300Nosat monthly stipend of Rs. 8,000.
- Apprentices with Degree- 400Nosat monthly stipend of Rs. 9,000.
MSDE commences its Skill India Self-Defence Training workshop for its Female Employees
In alignment with the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s visionary programme ‘Mission Karmayogi’, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship inaugurated a five-day self-defence training – “Meri Suraksha, Meri Zimmedari”. The programme has been organised by the Sports, Physical Education, Fitness and Leisure Skills Council (SPEFL-SC) and has witnessed the participation of more than 50 women. Mission Karmayogi’ is one of a kind initiative that focuses on the capacity building while modernizing the thinking and the approach of the government employees.
Government of India to promote upskilling or reskilling in the field of AI
Government of India has taken several steps to promote upskilling or reskilling in the field of Artificial Intelligence which include the following: –
- Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has initiated a programme titled FutureSkills PRIME (www.futureskillsprime.in) in collaboration with NASSCOM, a B2C framework for re-skilling/ up-skilling of IT professionals in 10 Emerging are as including Artificial Intelligence. So far, 7 Lakh candidates have signed-up on the FutureSkills PRIME Portal, out of which, 1.2 lakh candidates have completed their courses. In addition, 524 Trainers and 4292 Government Officials have been trained on these technologies by NIELIT/C-DAC Resource Centres, and around 1.3 lakh unique learners have collectively earned 8.9 lakh ‘badges’ in recognition of having completed bite- sized digital fluency content.Under Artificial Intelligence, 36,528 candidates are enrolled in deep– skilling courses and 47,744 candidates are enrolled in Foundation courses.
- Government has published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in June 2018 and proposes to develop an ecosystem for the research and adoption of Artificial Intelligence i.e. #AIFOR ALL.
- Government has launched ‘National AI Portal’ (https://indiaai.gov.in/) which is a repository of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based initiatives in the country at a single place. As on date, there are 1024 national and international articles, 655 news, 200 videos, 90 research reports, 279 Startups, 120 Government initiatives listed at National AI Portal.
Source:PIB
