Industrial Automation Magazine India

DGT teams with Microsoft and NASSCOM for digital learning at ITIs

Published on : Monday 28-12-2020

DGT performs a key function within the execution of vocational coaching schemes and in making Skill India initiative a success.

December 2020 – The Directorate General of Training (DGT), under the ministry of skills development and entrepreneurship, has joined hands with Microsoft and NASSCOM Foundation to offer digital learning content for college students at industrial training institutes (ITIs). Nearly 1,20,000 college students in round 3000 ITIs throughout India could benefit by this digitised e-learning module through the Bharatskills portal, the union government stated in a recent press release.

DGT within the final two years has collaborated with many digital trade entrance liners like IBM India, SAP India, Cisco Systems India, Accenture Solutions and Quest Alliance, Adobe, SSC-NASSCOM and so on, to allow the scholars to turn out to be trade prepared.

DGT is accountable for implementing long run institutional coaching to the nation’s youth by its intensive community of about 15,000 coaching institutes (ITIs) and 33 National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs). Besides, DGT performs a key function within the execution of vocational coaching schemes and in making ‘Skill India’ initiative a success.

The ministry has launched a web-based learning platform known as the Bharatskills in October 2019, which is a central repository for skills, offering easy accessibility for the trainees and trainers of the ITI ecosystem. During the present Covid-19 pandemic state of affairs, the utilisation of Bharatskills learning platform has elevated multifold from round 90,000 customers in March 2020 to greater than 16.55 lakh customers having accessed the portal as on date, the ministry claimed.