Digital skilling program in emerging and future tech launched by Pradhan

Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday launched a Digital Skilling program in emerging and future technologies, in the presence of Minister of State for Skill Development and Information, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The digital skilling initiative will focus on skilling, reskilling and upskilling students via internships, apprenticeships, and employment to one crore students in the Emerging Technologies.

This is the first-ever collaboration on a national scale between Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Skill and affiliated NSDCs, Skill India programs (National Educational Alliance for Technology) and AICTE. Over 100+ technology corporate/manufacturing firms have already come on board on this platform to provide free-of-cost emerging technology certifications.