🅾️ News::: Skill India: Connecting Indian youth to global opportunities
👉Recently Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan chaired the 3rd meeting of the steering committee of National Skill Development Mission (NSDM). In the meeting, discussions centered around skill development schemes, skill gap analysis and skill mapping. A significant point of deliberation was on how the curriculum be developed keeping in mind the emerging trends so that Indian youth can connect with global opportunities.
✅️ Roadmap for developing India’s skilled youth:
🅾️ NSDM was launched by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) on 15th July 2015. The mission was launched for creating convergence across various sectors and different states in terms of activities relating to skill training.
🅾️The objectives of the mission include:
1. Implementing the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) which will allow opportunities for long-term, as well as short-term training, leading to productive employment and career improvement.
2. Using the NSQF module to maintain a balance between the industry- employer demand.
3. Providing facilities of re-skilling and up-skilling to the workforce of the unorganised sectors of the industry.
4. Ensuring high-quality training standards through high-quality teaching and benchmarked institutions according to national and international standards.
5. Support weaker and disadvantaged sections of society through focused outreach programmes.
6. Enabling pathways for transitioning between the vocational training system and the formal educational system, through a credit transfer system.
7. Maintaining a national database, known as the Labour Market Information System (LMIS), which will act as a portal for matching the demand and supply of skilled workforce in the country.
👉Recently Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan chaired the 3rd meeting of the steering committee of National Skill Development Mission (NSDM). In the meeting, discussions centered around skill development schemes, skill gap analysis and skill mapping. A significant point of deliberation was on how the curriculum be developed keeping in mind the emerging trends so that Indian youth can connect with global opportunities.
✅️ Roadmap for developing India’s skilled youth:
🅾️ NSDM was launched by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) on 15th July 2015. The mission was launched for creating convergence across various sectors and different states in terms of activities relating to skill training.
🅾️The objectives of the mission include:
1. Implementing the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) which will allow opportunities for long-term, as well as short-term training, leading to productive employment and career improvement.
2. Using the NSQF module to maintain a balance between the industry- employer demand.
3. Providing facilities of re-skilling and up-skilling to the workforce of the unorganised sectors of the industry.
4. Ensuring high-quality training standards through high-quality teaching and benchmarked institutions according to national and international standards.
5. Support weaker and disadvantaged sections of society through focused outreach programmes.
6. Enabling pathways for transitioning between the vocational training system and the formal educational system, through a credit transfer system.
7. Maintaining a national database, known as the Labour Market Information System (LMIS), which will act as a portal for matching the demand and supply of skilled workforce in the country.
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✅️ Government initiatives to promote skill development:
1. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY): It aims to provide free skill training avenues to youths of India.
2. Skill Saathi Counseling Program:it aimed to sensitize youth on various avenues of Skill India Mission.
3. Skill Hubs: Skill Hub initiative aims to facilitate and make education more relevant and create industry fit skilled workforce.
4. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK): These are the state-of-the-art model training centres envisaged to create benchmark institutions that demonstrate aspirational value for competency-based skill development training.
5. Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE): The main focus of the scheme is to improve the performance of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).
6. SANKALP: It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme which is collaborated with the World Bank ✅️ and focuses on district-level skilling ecosystem through convergence and coordination.🤝
1. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY): It aims to provide free skill training avenues to youths of India.
2. Skill Saathi Counseling Program:it aimed to sensitize youth on various avenues of Skill India Mission.
3. Skill Hubs: Skill Hub initiative aims to facilitate and make education more relevant and create industry fit skilled workforce.
4. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK): These are the state-of-the-art model training centres envisaged to create benchmark institutions that demonstrate aspirational value for competency-based skill development training.
5. Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE): The main focus of the scheme is to improve the performance of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).
6. SANKALP: It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme which is collaborated with the World Bank ✅️ and focuses on district-level skilling ecosystem through convergence and coordination.🤝
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⭕️In Kalidasa's 'Abhijnana Shakuntalam' has reference of foxtail millets
🌾Millets were there in Yajur Veda's verses..... Sushruta's Samhita named khudhanya varga included various millets
🪴'Ragi thandheera' - a composition by Purandara Dasa highlighted the importance of finger millet ( ragi ) during his times.....
🌿Kanakdasa personified ragi as the weaker sections of society through his metaphoric creation 'Ramadhanya Charithre'
🍀Kautilya's Arthashastra has also mentioned millets with various properties....
🅾️ Ain-i-Akbari, written by Abul Faxl, records millets and their cultivating regions... It is said that Mughal King Jahangir was fond of 'laziza', a fotlrm of bajra kichdi, mixed with peas which has its roots in Gujarat....
✅️In April, 2018,Millets were rebranded as "NutriCereals", and the year 2018 was declared as the National Year Of Millets
🅾️And now, this year marks the celebration of the International Year of Millets (IYM2023) ✅️
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⭕️In Kalidasa's 'Abhijnana Shakuntalam' has reference of foxtail millets
🌾Millets were there in Yajur Veda's verses..... Sushruta's Samhita named khudhanya varga included various millets
🪴'Ragi thandheera' - a composition by Purandara Dasa highlighted the importance of finger millet ( ragi ) during his times.....
🌿Kanakdasa personified ragi as the weaker sections of society through his metaphoric creation 'Ramadhanya Charithre'
🍀Kautilya's Arthashastra has also mentioned millets with various properties....
🅾️ Ain-i-Akbari, written by Abul Faxl, records millets and their cultivating regions... It is said that Mughal King Jahangir was fond of 'laziza', a fotlrm of bajra kichdi, mixed with peas which has its roots in Gujarat....
✅️In April, 2018,Millets were rebranded as "NutriCereals", and the year 2018 was declared as the National Year Of Millets
🅾️And now, this year marks the celebration of the International Year of Millets (IYM2023) ✅️
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👆Read how each SDG Goal mentioned above gets fulfilled with the properties of Millets✅️
🅾️ Some facts about Millets:
🌾 Climate -resilient crops; can grow on arid lands with mininal inputs and maintenance ; are tolerant or resistant to diseases and pests and are more resilient to climate shocks than other cereals
🌾they can grow in very poor (extreme word) and fertile soils in dryland conditionsand donot heavily deplete soil nutrients
🌾good source of minerals, fibre, antioxidants and proteins; have low glycaemic index ; rich source for iron and are glutem free. Thus they have huge benefits in dealing with malnutrition, management of diseases like diabetes, heart conditions, anaemia as well as climate resilience and nutritional security ✅️
🅾️ Some facts about Millets:
🌾 Climate -resilient crops; can grow on arid lands with mininal inputs and maintenance ; are tolerant or resistant to diseases and pests and are more resilient to climate shocks than other cereals
🌾they can grow in very poor (extreme word) and fertile soils in dryland conditionsand donot heavily deplete soil nutrients
🌾good source of minerals, fibre, antioxidants and proteins; have low glycaemic index ; rich source for iron and are glutem free. Thus they have huge benefits in dealing with malnutrition, management of diseases like diabetes, heart conditions, anaemia as well as climate resilience and nutritional security ✅️
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✅️ After becoming a founding member in 1945, India took its first World Bank loan in 1949 - to develop the Indian Railways.
✅️This was the first loan to an Asian country and the first to be signed by a woman.
#75YrsofWorldBankandIndia #IndiaAt75
✅️This was the first loan to an Asian country and the first to be signed by a woman.
#75YrsofWorldBankandIndia #IndiaAt75
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