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TopicSkill development

Topic: Skill development

Recovery of economy now depends on how fast we skill youth, make them job-ready, Pradhan says

Soniya Agrawal -
On World Youth Skills Day, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan says skilling is no longer a secondary ancillary to education in India.

Second wave jolt pushes Modi govt to train 1.17 lakh health workers for possible third wave

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Besides non-medical personnel, ITI students will be trained in managing oxygen plants, ventilators and oxygen concentrators.

343 new job roles, empowered panels — minister lays out Modi govt’s skills scheme plans

Soniya Agrawal -
In an interview, Skill Development Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey speaks about the job training programme, law and order in UP and sedition cases in India.

Can’t pay rent or salaries, how Covid & lack of govt funds are shutting down skill centres

Soniya Agrawal -
Some skilling centres have shut shop, while some are unable to pay salaries to their staff. Govt cites budget constraints for delay in disbursing payments to the centres.

Phase 3 of Modi govt’s skills scheme to launch next year, with focus on Covid

Soniya Agrawal -
Third phase of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana will launch on 1 January 2021 and will focus on imparting skills related to healthcare, home delivery, sanitising, cleaning services among others.

How Odisha went from skill development nobody to powerhouse in just 4 years

Srimoy Kar -
Out of 49 govt-run ITIs, 11 are in the top 100 list drawn up by Central government. But the transformation runs much deeper than mere rankings.

How young people would like to redesign education and skills for a post-Covid era

Henrietta Fore -
Millions of young people cannot find jobs. Covid has made many now question the gap between the skills they learn in school & those needed for employment.

Present a National Employment Policy for long-term in 4 months: PM Modi tells GoM

Neelam Pandey -
At a meeting with PM Modi, a GoM on skill development and employment suggests setting up a Central Board of Vocational Education on the lines of CBSE.

Modi govt plans in J&K — skill-based programmes on adventure sports and film-making

Soniya Agrawal -
With the objective of creating skill-based programmes in J&K, the National Skill Development Corporation has already deployed two officers in the union territory.

Building skills: How govts & businesses can help students in school-to-work transitions

Sarah Brown -
No one agency, organisation or sector can address the learning and skills crisis alone. Collaboration between the public sector and businesses is an essential strategy.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former PM Imran Khan | Photos from Facebook

Jinnah said Pakistan would be a ‘laboratory’. Experiments by Imran, Shehbaz prove him so right

Naila Inayat -
If Yasin Malik’s sentence is a call for condemnation, then why is the establishment forgetting Hafiz Saeed? But neither Shehbaz nor Imran Khan would take note.
Separatist leader Yasin Malik in New Delhi on 19 May 2022 | ANI photo

Many waited for Kashmir to erupt after Yasin Malik verdict. It didn’t – says a lot about JKLF

Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell at Booker Prize event, London | TheBookerPrizes/Twitter

Geetanjali Shree won 1st Booker for Hindi novel. Regional authors must ask for right price now

Economy

RBI sets aside more money for rainy day, payout drops

Anup Roy -
The central bank approved the transfer of 303.1 billion rupees to the government from its surplus funds, a third of the 991.2 billion rupees it had given last year.

Defence

NSA Ajit Doval with NSAs from the other countries at the meeting at Dushanbe, Tajikistan | Photo: Courtesy the NSA's office

NSA Ajit Doval pushes for ‘terror free’ Afghanistan, says India stands with Afghan people

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Doval's comments came at 4th Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan attended by national security advisors from Tajikistan, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan & China.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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