Mumbai, October 17 (IANS). Serial entrepreneur and co-founder and chairman of edtech platform UpGrad Ronnie Screwvala on Thursday lauded the recently launched PM Internship Scheme, saying the initiative will empower millions of talented youth in the country.
UpGrad has committed a scholarship program worth Rs 200 crore to train one lakh youth for the PM Internship Scheme. This initiative prioritizes national level skills to bridge the education-employment gap for underprivileged youth.
“We appreciate the PM Internship Scheme and its entire concept of focussing on skills and internships. “We have created a skilling program across multiple dimensions, from soft sales to hard skills – which will be free for the first one lakh people,” Screwvala told IANS.
UpGrad has announced the Intern-ZIP Programme, an initiative to train approximately one lakh learners in the current financial year and accelerate talent mobility by leveraging the PM Internship Scheme.
The skilling major has created a special curriculum with nine comprehensive modules/virtual classrooms targeted at individuals aged 20-24, and coming from non-tax-paying family backgrounds. The course is free for the first 100,000 learners.
Screwvala said, “With this initiative, we are empowering a whole new community of ambitious individuals to be adequately trained and placed in leading organizations/Global Competence Centers/Partner Companies, using Microsoft Office (Word, PPT Skilling individuals in tools like , Excel) and ChatGPT, which includes soft aspects like effective communication, problem-solving, professional grooming and optimizing networking techniques on personal/social media. Innovation comes that will lead us to becoming a maker economy versus a replication or outsourcing economy. Intellectual property creation is an asset of any nation and economy.”
Over 1.55 lakh candidates signed up for PM Internship Scheme in just 24 hours.
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