{"id":2167,"date":"2021-08-12T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2021-08-12T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:44:10","slug":"government-is-working-to-create-greater-synergy-between-education-and-skills-for-making-a-future-ready-workforce-union-education-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Government is working to create greater synergy between education and skills for making a future-ready workforce \u2013 Union Education Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Government is working to create greater synergy between education and skills for making a future-ready workforce \u2013 Union Education Minister<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><br \/>\nUnion Education Minister addresses CII\u2019s virtual special plenary session on \u2018Job Creation &amp; Entrepreneurship \u2013 Way Ahead for Livelihood Generation\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 12 AUG 2021 1:51PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Addressing the\u00a0CII\u2019s virtual special plenary session on \u2018Job Creation &amp; Entrepreneurship \u2013 Way Ahead for Livelihood Generation\u2019, Union\u00a0Education and Skill Development Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan\u00a0said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the economy is growing at a rapid pace and the future of India is looking very promising. He added that building skill capacity is a key to enhance productivity and drive the economy ahead.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1425703147171835908&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpib.gov.in%2FPressReleasePage.aspx%3FPRID%3D1745099&amp;sessionId=d3567e377ef0b9ba37a4777c37ea9f2a8727dda8&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1425703147171835908\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Pradhan highlighted that continuous efforts are being made to equip our youth with the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century Skills. He said that as envisioned in the National Education Policy (NEP) -2020, the Government is working to create greater synergy between education and skills for making a future-ready workforce. NEP will contribute in creating a robust education ecosystem and eventually facilitating economic growth, he added.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Minister informed that Educational institutions and skill development centers have been affected during the pandemic but Government ensured continuity of education by developing digital content at a large scale. He further informed that in the near future every village will be connected with high-speed Internet and these mass-scale digitization efforts are creating new education, skilling, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Pradhan stressed that teachers play an important role in building society and technology is reshaping society. With the greater advent of technology and changing society, our teachers need to be re-skilled and up-skilled, he added.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Pradhan urged that as we celebrate \u201cAzaadi ka Amrut Mahotsav\u201d, we must work together to make our youth future-ready who will lead India towards the goal of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. He stated that with this goal, India is going to witness rapid economic growth and will become the engine of global growth. The Minister called upon the industry to contribute to this mission.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1425677692171546624&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpib.gov.in%2FPressReleasePage.aspx%3FPRID%3D1745099&amp;sessionId=d3567e377ef0b9ba37a4777c37ea9f2a8727dda8&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1425677692171546624\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Ajay Shriram, Chairman and Senior MD, DCM Shriram Ltd, Shri Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII , Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan , Pratham Education Foundation\u00a0and other industry experts attended the session.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is working to create greater synergy between education and skills for making a future-ready workforce \u2013 Union Education Minister Union Education Minister addresses CII\u2019s virtual special plenary session on \u2018Job Creation &amp; Entrepreneurship \u2013 Way Ahead for Livelihood Generation\u2019 Posted On: 12 AUG 2021 1:51PM by PIB Delhi Addressing the\u00a0CII\u2019s virtual special plenary session &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}