India launches AI-based Skill Bridge!
ASEEM
digital platform to bridge
Gap
of skilled force across sectors: MSDE
In
an endeavour to improve the information flow and bridge the demand-supply gap
in the skilled workforce market, the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched ‘Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer
Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood
opportunities.
Apart
from recruiting a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and
economic growth, the Artificial Intelligence-based platform has been envisioned
to strengthen their career pathways by handholding them through their journeys
to attain industry-relevant skills and explore emerging job opportunities
especially in the post COVID era.
Envisaging
the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce is crucial
in restructuring the skilling ecosystem with the new normal settling
post-pandemic. Besides identifying major skills gap in the sectors and
providing review of global best practices, ASEEM will provide employers a
platform to assess the availability of skilled workforce and formulate their
hiring plans.
Aatmanirbhar
Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM) refers to all the data, trends and
analytics which describe the workforce market and map demand of skilled
workforce to supply. It will provide real-time granular information by
identifying relevant skilling requirements and employment prospects.
Announcing
the launch of the ASEEM portal, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon’ble Minister of
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, said “Driven by Hon’ble Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and his assertion
of ‘India as a talent powerhouse’ at the India Global Week 2020 Summit,, the
ASEEM portal has been envisioned to give a huge impetus to our persistent
efforts to bridge the demand-supply gap for skilled workforce across sectors,
bringing limitless and infinite opportunities for the nation’s youth.
The
initiative aims to accelerate India’s journey towards recovery by mapping
skilled workforce and connecting them with relevant livelihood opportunities in
their local communities especially in the post COVID era. With the increasing
use of technology and e-management systems which assist in bringing in
processes and intelligent tools to drive demand driven and outcome-based skill
development programs, this platform will ensure we bring in close convergence
and coordination across various schemes and programs operating in the skill
ecosystem.
This
will also ensure that we monitor any sort of duplication of data and further
re-engineer the vocational training landscape in the country ensuring a
skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling in a more organised set up.”
Highlighting
how ASEEM will bridge the demand supply gap in the skilled workforce market,
Shri AM Naik, Chairman, NSDC and Group Chairman, Larsen & Toubro Limited
said, “Migrant labour has been severely impacted by the socio-economic fallout
of the Covid pandemic.
In
the current context, NSDC has taken up the responsibility of mapping the
dispersed migrant population around the country and providing them the means to
re-build their livelihood by matching their skill-sets to available employment
opportunities.
The
launch of ASEEM is the first step on that journey. I am confident that the
real-time information ASEEM provides to both employer and employee will add
value to the labour ecosystem and contribute to building the trust among the
workforce, which is essential for the recovery of the economy.”
ASEEM
https://smis.nsdcindia.org/, also available
as an APP, is developed and managed by National Skill Development Corporation
(NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based company Better place, specialising
in blue collar employee management.. ASEEM portal aims at supporting decision
and policymaking via trends and analytics generated by the system for
programmatic purposes.
ASEEM
shall help in providing real-time data analytics to NSDC and its Sector Skill
Councils about the demand and supply patterns including - industry
requirements, skill gap analysis, demand per district/ state/cluster, key
workforce suppliers, key consumers, migration patternsand multiple potential
career prospects for candidates.
ASEEM
will be used as a match-making engine to map skilled workers with the jobs
available. The portal and App will have provision for registration and data
upload for workers across job roles, sectors and geographies. The skilled
workforce can register their profiles on the app and can search for employment
opportunities in their neighbourhood.
Through ASEEM,
employers, agencies and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce in
specific sectors will also have the required details at their fingertips. It
will also enable policymakers take more objective view of various sectors.
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