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DGT-Microsoft-NASSCOM join hands for pan-India digital skilling

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December 25, 2020
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Nearly 120,000 students to benefits from e-learning module on Bharatskills

The Directorate General of Training (DGT) has joined hands with Microsoft and NASSCOM Foundation to provide digital content for ITI students and a future-ready employability skilling program for upskilling and reskilling.  Micro

Nearly 120,000 students in around 3,000 ITIs across India can benefit from this digitized e-learning module via the Bharatskills portal.

“Empowering the next generation of learners with industry-relevant digital skills is critical as we move towards building economic resilience,” said Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India.

“The last few months have accelerated the need for upskilling and has shown clearly that the future of learning will be supported by technology. Our partnership with DGT and NASSCOM Foundation is built on this foundation of equipping the learners of today with the skills required to thrive in the jobs of tomorrow,” Maheshwari said.

In the last two years, the DGT has collaborated with many digital industry front-liners like IBM India, SAP India, Cisco Systems India, Accenture Solutions and Quest Alliance, Adobe, SSC-NASSCOM among others, to enable the students to become industry-ready.

The DGT under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is responsible for implementing long-term institutional training to the nation’s youth through its extensive network of about 15,000 training institutes (ITIs) and 33 National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs). It plays a key role in the execution of vocational training schemes and in making the ‘Skill India’ dream become a reality.

“Through the DGT-Microsoft partnership, we are aiming to impact thousands of students by enabling digitization in education and hope it to reach more students and teachers soon,” said Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

“As the pandemic is compelling fast-track digital transition, these new learning initiatives will empower young learners with technical and market-oriented skills,” said Pandey.

DGT launched Bharatskills (https://bharatskills.gov.in) in Oct 2019 as a Central Repository for skills providing easy access for the trainees and trainers of the ITI ecosystem, to access updated curriculums and course content of all courses under the Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS), Question Banks, mock/practice papers, learning videos, etc., hence enabling anytime, anywhere learning outside the classrooms.

This platform also presents unique access to a centralized, scalable and thriving support ecosystem through its industrial partners for the students and teachers who can now learn the newer IR 4.0 skills to meet the demands of the industry.

The Bharatskills learning platform usage has increased multifold from around 90,000 users in March 2020 to more than 16.55 Lakh users having accessed the portal as on date during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another testimony to DGT’s relentless efforts is the recent MoU between Directorate General of Training (DGT), Microsoft and NASSCOM Foundation wherein Microsoft has facilitated access to the free content available on the Microsoft Learn platform for more than 24 Lakh students in the ITI ecosystem, by linking the Global Skilling Initiative (GSI) through the Bharatskills platform.

Further, it is supporting the digitization of the entire content of a popular course – ‘Computer Operating and Programming Assistant’ (COPA) through the NASSCOM Foundation and also in conducting faculty development programs to build capacities of the Trainers/Faculties in the NSTIs and ITIs on the newly developed Digitized Blended content and futuristic skills.

The blended content with self-learning digital tutorials and handholding from teachers is expected to be accessed by more than 1 lakh 20 thousand students pursuing the course across 3000 industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) annually.

Hence, this will reduce the number of classroom hours and student-teacher engagement leading to the possibility to train double the existing number of students in COPA course within the same infrastructure.

This blended learning mode will help the trainee students to learn basic digital skills at the primary level in a uniform standardized manner and subsequently the advanced level Microsoft Office Technologies including Networking and Cyber Security. #technologies #digital #Microsoft #learning #skill /fiinews.com

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