TheBT Best B-Schools & HR Summit is set to take place on June 23 at ITC Maurya in New Delhi. A host of policy makers, business leaders and newsmakers will participate in the event to talk about the future of B-schools in India
Union Minister of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan will be gracing the event as its Chief Guest. He will be talking about the various educational and upskilling reforms undertaken by the PM Modi-led government in the session ‘9-years of Education Reforms in India: Skilling the Millions’ at 7 pm
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is going to reflect on multiple government initiatives in the education, skill development and entrepreneurship sectors. This year, the Narendra Modi-led government has completed 9 years in power. During this phase, there have been multiple initiatives across these sectors
The chief objective of the Skill India Mission is to provide market-relevant skills training to more than 40 crore young people in the country by the year 2023. The mission intends to create opportunities and space for the development of talent in Indian youth
The National Skill Development Mission was launched in 2015 on World Youth Skills Day by PM Narendra Modi. Aimed at converging skill training activities across the country, the National Skill Development Mission is currently under the aegis of Union Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan
Earlier this year, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Yuva Sangam portal under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat to conduct exposure tours of the youth comprising students & off-campus youngsters from North Eastern States to other states & vice versa
The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 proposed to replace the 10+2 structure with a 5+3+3+4 model
Under the Narendra Modi-led government, the Ministry of Education was earlier handled by Smriti Irani and later handed over to Dr Ramesh Pokhiriyal, under whom several changes pertaining to the examination and the education system were made. Initiatives such as DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing), VidyaDaan, E-textbooks, PRAGYATA, Shiksha Vani were launched to boost the digital education in India especially during the pandemic-induced lockdowns which impacted classroom teaching
In a pathbreaking move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) in 2018, where he communicates with the students especially those of Class 10 and Class 12 who are set to appear for their board exams. The aim is to alleviate any stress related to studies and resolve the queries of students, teachers and parents
In a bid to promote online vocational training, the government launched SWAYAM - Massive open online course (MOOC) platform to provide educational opportunities for a vast number of university and college learners in addition to their classroom teachings