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UNITY TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VEATIVE LABS

The Centre of Excellence will focus on building enterprise application and learning content to provide solutions for education and various industry sectors using immersive technologies Unity Technologies, creators of the world’s most popular creation engine which reaches nearly 3 billion devices and powers nearly 2/3rds of all Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) content, …

Fastudent Brings Vocational Curriculum Books to cater to the demand of Skill Development

~To help senior secondary school students in choosing the right career and become future ready~ New Delhi, December 15, 2016: Fastudent, India’s first B2B2C education e-commerce marketplace announces the expansion of its subject portfolio section by introducing new vocational subject segments with exclusive books and content that can help students in vocational skills development at …

Cambridge University Press and Naukri.com tie up to provide a gateway for Business English skill development

New Delhi, June 7th 2016 Naukri.com and Cambridge University Press today signed an agreement to offer Business English certificate examinations to registered candidates of Naukri.com. Candidates can prepare with official preparation learning material from Cambridge University Press and take an exam to get an international certification from Cambridge English Language Assessment. Candidates can buy this …

Skill Development and Employment are major Challenges: Economic Survey

There is a dual challenge of developing skills and utilizing them in a proper way. The Economic Survey 2014-15 has stated that as per the Labour Bureau Report 2014, the present skilled workforce in India is only 2 percent, which is much lower when compared to the developing nations. As per the report, the number …

MCCI :The Agenda in hand – Sanjay Agarwal,President

As new President of MCCI my focus of attention will be on the following issues : Issue No.1 : SME Sector Needless to say, next to Agriculture, SME sector is the largest provider of employment to the people and contributor to national output and exports. Hence, it should receive special attention, to step …

Skill Development Needed to Fill the Significant Gap between the Actual Skills of Large Number of Candidates Passing Out from Various Schools, Colleges and Professional Institutions Across the Country and the Skills Needed in the Industry; Business and Corporate Houses Must Work Closely with NSDC to Achieve The ambitious Target of Providing Skills to 500 Million People in Ten Years: FM

The Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram said that skill development is needed to fill the significant gap between the actual skills of large number of candidates passing out from various schools, colleges and professional institutions across the country and the skills needed in the industry. The Finance Minister Shri Chidambaram said that we have …

Focus Should be Placed on Skill Development and the Promotion of Entrepreneurship Qualities Among the Members of the Weaker Sections of Society by the Private Sector – Kumari Selja

A meeting was convened by Kumari Selja, Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment here today to take an update on the progress made by the private sector in regard to the Affirmative Action for the benefit of weaker sections, especially the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The representatives from three premier industry chambers viz., CII, …

PM’s Closing Remarks at 57th Meeting of NDC

Following are the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s closing remarks at the 57TH meeting of National Development Council in New Delhi today: “We have had a very full and long day of deliberations. I thank all Chief Ministers for complying with the electronically imposed time limit. Had they not complied with the limit, we would …

Coordination Committee reviews progress on Affirmative Action

A meeting of the Coordination Committee on Affirmative Action has been held in the Prime Minister’s Office, under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister. It was attended by the representatives of the three national Chambers of Industry: FICCI, CII and ASSOCHAM. Representatives of key Ministries such as Industrial Policy & Promotion, Social Justice …