Skill Training

At the CII Annual Business Summit 2026, Rajiv Gauba said India must move from "prohibited unless permitted" to "permitted unless prohibited" to deepen reforms

Govt to pilot modular, digital-first skilling content with 200 learning units to boost flexibility and sector-specific training

A NITI Aayog report calls for major reforms to India's apprenticeship system, urging stronger industry participation and better integration with education to support job-led growth

Despite large Budget allocations for PMIS and ELI, uptake remains low due to design issues, wage concerns and limited reach beyond big firms, prompting calls for a rethink

Mid-tier IT firm Happiest Minds plans to double its AI and GenAI workforce to over 1,000 by next fiscal, investing more to address skill gaps that are leading to lost revenue

Tie-up combines Udemy's global course platform with Entri's regional-language job training to widen access to career-focused learning

Delhi government, under the newly implemented Code of Social Security, has planned skill training of 1.20 lakh construction workers to improve their efficiency and ensure better job prospects, officials said on Monday. The government agency Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare (DBOCWW) Board deals with the welfare of registered workers in the city. The training is important for the construction workers who are one of the most vulnerable segments of the labour workforce, largely because the majority of them migrate from different regions of the country, especially villages, to Delhi in search of livelihood means, said a senior Delhi government officer. Under the Code of Social Security, 2020, implemented by the Government of India in November last year, the Building Workers Welfare Board have been empowered to frame skill development and awareness schemes for the registered workers. The DBOCWW Board, moving in skilling of 1.20 lakh workers registered with it, has ..

The company said that AI tools capable of learning and evolving on their own demand a new kind of testing and quality assurance

The free online AI Skills Passport, available in English and Hindi, aims to help India's youth build job-ready AI capabilities and bridge the country's digital skills gap

The government is partnering private-sector majors like Tata Technologies Ltd (TTL) to upgrade the industrial training institutes (ITIs)

The panel also sought fast-track IBC tribunals, SME engagement in internships, and robust job-tracking under the PMIS to improve impact and budget efficiency

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has about 114,000 people with higher order AI skills, which the company believes will allow it to create a 'skills pyramid'

School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar calls for more secondary and higher secondary schools to address dropout rates and align with NEP 2020 enrolment targets

It comes against the backdrop of stagnating deposit growth at major public sector banks (PSBs) and concerns in the Ministry of Finance about inconsistent customer service

India's second-largest IT services company assessed these engineers on March 18, after indefinitely postponing the assessment last month

The CoEs will also be empowered to operationalise higher national skill qualification framework (NSQF) level (level 5-level 8) courses which are not well represented in the skilling ecosystem

Union Labour Secretary Sumita Dawra on Tuesday said that global capability centres (GCC) are projected to expand to USD 105 billion by 2030, employing over 2.8 million people solidifying India's role as a global hub for enterprise operations and innovation. During a visit of an ILO delegation, headed by ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo at HSBC GCC on Tuesday in Gurugram, Dawra said that India is home to over 1,700 GCCs, employing 1.9 million professionals and generating USD 64.6 billion in revenue as of 2024, according to a labour ministry statement. Dawra further stated that the key GCC hubs are located in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, and the National Capital Region (NCR). "The sector is projected to expand to USD 105 billion by 2030, with around 2,400 GCCs employing over 2.8 million people, solidifying India's role as a global hub for enterprise operations and innovation," she said. Houngbo mentioned that India is becoming more competitive owing to its larg

India's second-largest IT services company had onboarded about 1,000 engineering graduates in October. Trainees get three attempts to clear the assessment, failing which they are asked to leave

The Punjab State Council of Educational Research and Training (PSCERT) has announced the Punjab State Teachers Eligibility Test (PSTET) 2025 results today, Feb 19, 2025 at https://pstet.pseb.ac.in

Labour rights group NITES announced plans to file a formal complaint with the Ministry of Labour and Employment against Infosys