What’s in the news?

• Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched ‘Atma Nirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities. 
• Apart from recruiting a skilled workforce, the Artificial Intelligence-based platform has been envisioned
  • to strengthen their career pathways by handholding them through their journeys to attain industry-relevant skills and
  • to explore emerging job opportunities which will help migrant labour, who has been severely impacted by the socio-economic fallout of the COVID pandemic.

Benefits:

• ASEEM will be used as a match-making engine to map skilled workers with the jobs available.
• Through ASEEM, employers, agencies and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce in specific sectors will also have the required details at their fingertips.
• It will also enable policymakers to take a more objective view of various sectors.

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1637971