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The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in partnership with IBM has unveiled Free Digital Learning Platform ‘Skills Build Reignite’.

About 

• The SkillsBuild Reignite tends to provide job seekers and entrepreneurs, with access to free online coursework and mentoring support designed to help them reinvent their careers and businesses.
• Relevant content on topics including Artificial intelligence, Cloud, Data analytics and security to reskill and upskill themselves, are provided free of cost.

Benefits:

• Its special feature is the personalized coaching for entrepreneurs, seeking advice to help establish or restart their small businesses as they begin to focus on recovery to emerge from the COVID 19 pandemic.
• The initiative will strengthen the skilling ecosystem and leverage the rise in demand for new-age skills by expanding industry cross-collaboration and creating learning pathways through digital learning platforms.
• It will address the widening skill gap in the country and create a culture of up-skilling.
• The platform provides the right set of tools, innovative approach and access to mentors for students to thrive in this competitive environment.