Blending of Skill, Education, and Technology for Skilled, Upskilled, Re-skilled India

By Prajwal Wakhare

India recognized the significance of the skill area a few years back, a campaign started in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and National Skills Development Corporation India managing it. At this stage, India is skilling up at a considerable scale where it is a path to enhancing the fundamentals of education and microeconomics. The nation aims to make a healthy and progressive environment centered on citizen skilling has taken to an expansion of youthful force with different and independent opportunities.

Skill India Mission, which began in 2015, intends to serve a wide range of skill development in India, including creative skill development, leadership skill development, IT skill development, and numerous further.

With the emergence of technological spaces, creativeness, and industry dynamics, the need for skilled, upskilled & reskilled individuals as well as groups is more vital. India has more than 60 percent of people of millennial age which shows the huge scope for the Skill India Mission. Teenagers’ and millennials’ interest in learning skills will be a much further addition to the national growth.

This new expansion of tech and AI demands creative skills and innovative businesses comprising technological aspects. By understanding this thing, we can conclude that creativity can be enhanced, and altered therefore creative skills can also be learned, so the entrepreneurial skills can also be developed within the individuals to create more for the Indian economy.

In today’s time industries going under huge digital transformation so the demand for new educated, tech-enabled, and upskilled beings is rising. The advancement of technology is at a rapid rate, and parallel to this the skilling Indian people unleashing new capabilities within them that integrate with sophisticated technology. In the 21st Century, the pattern of nations’ growth is grounded on trained and upskilled young people and their abilities.
The alliance between technology and skills has given momentum to educational innovation and skills of teaching methods. In this environment, technology has become a tremendous facilitator in terms of affordable and accessible learning for anybody, anywhere, and at any time.

Industry 4.0 is at its introductory growth phase and when it peaks it’ll cause greater upheaval in the sector, this shows how new creative talents are required to be used and applied to every part of the business.

In this skill-expanding journey of India some ed-tech start-ups enhancing India’s tech talent pool where the demand for tech skills has increased extensively during COVID-19. BridgeLabz Solutions LLP (2016), Imarticus learnings (2012), Upgrad (2015), Simplilearn (2010), and Corporate Gurukul (2007) are the top 5 ed-tech start-ups working for skilling Indians for a long time. In banking, financial services, insurance, IT, Machine Learning, and AI, start-ups in these sectors are looking out for professionals who already have the required analytical and specialized skills.
As we work toward a future-ready India, we must set our sights on bringing government, business, and academics together to bring a healthy learning and skilling ecosystem. An environment is conducive to the development of India ready for its future.