Govt to Launch National Skills Portal to tally jobs in India
The government of India is collecting the rise in the number of skilled persons in the country since the launch of its flagship Skill India Programme, in an effort to tally jobs in India.
The launch of national skills portal planned by the government is an initiative that will have skilling data from all central ministries, states and corporates.
Earlier in January, the cabinet secretary, PK Sinha had conducted review meetings to track the number of skilled personnel bringing all central ministries on board to converge their skilling programmes.
Since the launch of Skill India programme in 2015, the government had targeted training over 400 million people in different skills by 2022. However, coming to statistics only 40 million have been trained so far out of which 25 million of ...