To fill up approximately 2,000 vacancies for nursing officer (staff nurse-grade-II) – Group ‘B’ on direct recruitment basis, the AIIMS Recruitment 2018: AIIMS, New Delhi has issued a recruitment notification.
Of the 2,000 vacancies 600 each are for AIIMS Bhopal and Jodhpur, 500 for AIIMS Patna and 300 for AIIMS Raipur.
To appear for exams, the online registration will be available on AIIMS’ website from October 8 to 5pm on October 29. Candidates seek to apply for the examination should be aged 21-30. The Age relaxation is being provided for certain category candidates.
While an application fee of Rs 1,500 has to be paid by general and OBC candidates, Rs 1200 will be charged from SC/ST candidates.
Persons with benchmark disabilities are not required to pay any fees.
As per the rules, candidates applying for the post must have BSc (Hons) Nursing / BSc Nursing from a recognised institution OR i) BSc (Post-Certificate)/Post-Basic BSc Nursing ii) is registered as nurses and Midwife in state/Indian Nursing Council OR (i) Diploma in General Nursing Midwifery from an Indian Nursing Council recognised Institute/Board or Council; (ii) Registered as Nurses and Midwife in State / Indian Nursing Council; (iii) Two years experience in a minimum 50 bedded hospital after acquiring the educational qualification mentioned above.
The selection of candidates will be done on the basis of Computer Based Test to be held on December 7. The results will be declared on December 18. The scheme of the examination will be uploaded on the AIIMS website on October 10.
In a move that aims to bring improvement in the education system, the Government has issued directions for modification in the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir State Higher Education Council under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA).
The Governor shall be the Chairman of the J&K State Higher Education Council in place of Chief Minister, J&K, stated an official handout issued by the General Administration Department, Government of Jammu & Kashmir, said recently.
As Advisor to the Governor, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai shall be the Vice-chairman of the Council in place of Minister for Higher Education.
Meanwhile as Advisor to the Governor, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai shall be the Vice-chairman of the Council in place of Minister for Higher Education.
As per the directive, the Minister of State for Higher Education shall be deemed to have been deleted from the composition of the J&K State Higher Education Council.
Anna University’s all distance education programmes have been approved by the University Grants Commission, which is the top body for higher education.
A notification approving all the three programmes — MBA, MCA, and MSc — conducted by CDE for five years was issued by the UGC on Wednesday. Admissions to these programes for academic year 2018-19 would begin on October 3, an official communiqué said.
Since 2007, the Centre for Distance Education (CDE) of Anna University has been offering distance education programmes in MBA, MCA, and MSc (Computer Science). The MBA programme is offered with specialisations in general management, marketing and some other streams.
As part of its endeavour to regulate conduct of distance learning programmes by various varsities in the country, the UGC recently introduced new regulations — the UGC (Open & Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 and subsequent amendments in 2018.
Anna University with a NAAC score of 3.46 has fulfilled all requirements mandated by the UGC in its regulations, the official communiqué added.
The AICTE chairman Anil Dattaraya Sahasrabudhe has given a call to all higher education institutions in the country to get accredited by 2022, as publishing the accreditation status on the institutes’ website would become mandatory.
It may be noted that only 15 percent of the higher education institutes are accredited in the country while the rest still do not have accreditation by either the National Assessment and Accreditation Council or the National Board of Accreditation.
Speaking during the ‘National Conference on Indian Higher Education’ recently organised by EPSI and APAI, he said: “Some colleges with good infrastructure will be given six years of accreditation while the moderate ones will get three years of accreditation…”
The colleges not opt for accreditation will also have to pay the enrolment fee of Rs 1 lakh annually, the official said.
The demand for talent development and organisational development consultants has been growing over the years. They become critical in guiding organisations and creating a competent workforce for tomorrow’s challenges, observes Siddharthan VGJ, Founder & Managing Director, Bodhih Training Solutions Pvt Ltd, for Elets News Network (ENN).
In the modern workplace, the opportunity for both companies and its employees is ever changing with innovation, market, customer behaviour, social media, socio-politics and economic policies of Government etc. The demand for new skills and knowledge makes continuous learning and updating oneself is inevitable. Businesses to sustain themselves ahead of the competition and to create newer markets are invest
ing heavily in building and managing a competent workforce. With automation and AI making several jobs redundant, there is a need for workforce and businesses to reinvent themselves. Today, the key to the success of an organisation is in providing the precise skilling prospects to their employees at the right time. With digital transformation sitting firmly in the backdrop, up-skilling or re-skilling helps one grow both personally and professionally. The demand for talent development and organisational development consultants has been growing over the years. They become critical in guiding organisations and creating a competent workforce for tomorrow’s challenges, today.
Both individuals and organisations are trailing behind and missing out on competitive advantages due to the skill gap today. Many employees already feel that their skill set is either redundant or outmoded and the pressure to stay and swim with the tides is more evident today than ever before.
Challenges faced by OrganiSational Development (OD) Consultant:
Competence of OD Consultant and Talent Managers: While it is the OD consultant and Talent Manager who are going to play a critical role in creating and managing their talent pool, it is imperative that they aware of the current changes happening in their own fields. This includes skilling for future learning methodologies and technological influences in the learning space, etc. Organisations and businesses face a massive challenge in terms of upskilling their units to meet the competency/skill gap. Considering that skill redundancy is one of the pain areas, OD consultants and Talent Managers should be able to design a clear career development plan to address the issue. Any gap in skill will only continue to widen if left unchecked, therefore, timely planning and innovative ideas and actions must be taken to ensure both the employee and the organisation grows.
Time Constraints: Well, several surveys conducted in the past, have time and again proved that both employees and employers are aware of the growing gaps in skills and its enormous impact on both the individual and the organisation. Businesses want its team members to be on the job – creating products and services, managing clients and customers and hence find it challenging to move them to the training environment. The lack of relevant and timely upskilling or re-training leaves a negative impact on organisations, leading to multiple issues such as lack of profits, lack of productivity, diminishing value of the brand and goodwill to name a few. We are haphazardly stuck in what is called a typical “Catch 22 situation”.
All of this is directly linked to the upskilling or reskilling of individuals to ensure the required competencies or gaps in skills are filled and help in retaining high motivation levels in an employee, in turn, helping them and the organisation grow together.
In an era where digitalisation is such an integral part of today’s corporate culture, it is highly recommended that organisations keep in mind the potential gaps with regards to the digital aspects and plan their skilling and upskilling programs to meet the objectives at the right time. Digitalisation and skills management requires organisations to bind technology and learning in a manner where continuous learning or upskilling becomes the culture of the organissation.
Formality v/s Real Impact: For several HR and L&D functions, training is more like a formality – completing a calendar or exhausting yearly budget. Any place where training is seen as just a formality or compliance requirement – the whole L&D fails. This hampers prospects of competent workforce and business growth. Upskilling employees are now at an all-time high – thanks to the rapid digitalisation of businesses of all sizes and sectors. It is said that the core skill sets that are relevant today may not even be considered vital or crucial for the jobs in the near future. To stay relevant in the fast-changing industry, it is important to not just upskill employees but to also ensure timely and effective reiteration and continuously learning is encouraged.
Stake Holders and their Involvement: In several circumstances, I have seen the stakeholders – the Reporting Managers or the functional heads are not involved in the L&D decision making. This creates a gap in what is needed and what is learnt by the team. An organisation needs to ensure that all upskilling programs are planned in line with the values, vision, and mission of the company. All employees must be upskilled to perform their jobs both effectively and efficiently, meeting all requirements of the current technological, soft skills and competencies set as thresholds to meet the desired outcome. Once these are met, productivity and profits will follow instantaneously, and this cannot be achieved without the involvement of all relevant stakeholders.
An effective Learning and Development training plan will make a huge impact on an organisation’s and Individuals’ growth. Talent management teams and Employers today foresee the immediate need to invest in upskilling their employees. Many organisations today are placing career development plan at the top of their agenda, ensuring skill gaps are minimised is a top priority of several organisations. It is also one of the most effective ways of ensuring there is a buy-in and creating an enthusiasm among employees.
For the most part, the responsibility of upskilling, re-training or training is bestowed upon the Learning and Development department of the organisation.
A few things to keep in mind to ensure the effectiveness of training is kept intact are:
Continuous Learning: Creating a learning culture that does not start and end with induction or compliance process. It should be developed in a way where Micro-Learning and blended learning approaches are introduced to ensure retention of a concept and time to apply learnings at the job is taken into consideration. This also helps in providing short, bite-sized learning interventions that can keep the employees engaged and be conducted at different intervals. A good Learning Management System helps in conducting such training, where employees attend in-house training programs or revise the course content at a later time through the integrated system. An LMS gives you multiple options to make learning easy, self-driven, and continuous by providing numerous learning opportunities via collaborative workshops, streaming videos, articles, course content etc.
Customised Learning: The one size fits all concept is no longer applicable when it comes to competency-based training, the idea is to create an alluring career development training plan that looks into an individual’s current skills and competencies and prepare a roadmap based on this. In addition to this Learning and Development teams also need to seek out various formats such as Gamification, E-Learning, Blended Learning, Outbound Learning, etc. that suits a learner’s needs and deliver training in a holistic manner.
Limitless Learning: Heard of M-Learning yet? Mobile Learning is a learner’s choice to learn from anywhere, at any time, using a device of their choice. In the mobile-friendly era, almost all businesses have an “App” which makes doing business whit them far easier these days. Similarly, to create and maintain a leaner’s interest you must give them the time and convenience of learning at their own pace, an LMS app or the businesses platform can be used to provide uninterrupted and limitless learning; Learning On-the-go.
Collaborative Approach: Learning doesn’t necessarily always happen in the classroom or via online courses, a lot of learning happens on a regular basis via peer-to-peer learning. With most of us being citizens of the global village these days and being better connected via technology, peer-to-peer learning is not limited to peers located under one roof, a good LMS can be used to share similar experiences and knowledge across the globe. It can be used to create discussion forums to share and learn in an informal but structured manner.
Skilling initiatives are a must for both employees and organisations grow. It is time to rethink and relook at our existing up-skilling programmes.
The basic idea behind the creation of Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) is to formulate appropriate and innovative strategies to promote and facilitate large-scale livelihoods for the underprivileged people of the State, says Ngikya Gohain, Manging Director, RSLDC in an interview with Ahmad Shariq Khan of Elets News Network (ENN).
Please give us a brief description about RSLDC’s mission and objectives.
Ngikya Gohain, Manging Director, RSLDC
The Mission of RSLDC is to address the needs of rising unemployment in Rajasthan through formulating and promoting appropriate livelihood strategies for the State’s economically weak working population and fulfilling Government’s larger vision of attaining inclusive economic growth. RSLDC seeks to provide an impetus to skill training and livelihoods initiatives for disadvantaged groups like women, SC, ST, migrants, persons with special ability etc. RSLDC is overcoming the challenges by disseminating knowledge, experimenting with alternative ideas, designing more effective livelihoods promotion strategies and advocating policy reforms. By facilitating convergence and coordination among stakeholders and enhancing capacities of existing livelihoods intervention agencies, RSLDC is expanding and improving accessibility of services.
How RSLDC established skill training mechanism by involving training partner agencies to execute the training programme across the State?
Over a period of time, RSLDC has consolidated its skill training framework and has standardised the skill ecosystem of Rajasthan. RSLDC also plays an important role in approval of schemes, preparation of training guidelines and selection of training partners. RSLDC also decides parameters of establishment of Skill Development Centres (SDCs), their inspection and approval, methods and reporting of sudden inspections, assessment and certification and placement norms.
These processes are now well defined and have been made consistent by the State Skill Mission to ascertain better outcome. In last five years, RSLDC has seen a phenomenal growth as a result of its skill-based endeavours that have benefitted more than 2.75 lakh youth and rising.
As part of its endeavour RSLDC offers a bouquet of courses to choose from including National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) aligned courses. RSLDC has expanded its horizon by providing training in newer sectors such as Phad Paintings, Heritage Mistri Trade, Purohitya Prashikshan, Ornamental Fisheries, etc. It leads to dropping conventional courses and making space for the industry-relevant trades.
In its attempt to reach out to the different sections of the society, RSLDC is laying special emphasis on empowering special sections of the society with quality training and placement opportunities. RSLDC is providing skill training to women, transgender, persons with special ability, juveniles and jail inmates, ex-army servicemen, Pak migrants, and other such sections.
How is RSLDC working towards nurturing industry-ready skill sets among students?
RSLDC is working with over 250 training partners who have partnered with industries and potential employers for arranging post-training placements. These partnerships with training partners and industries are critical in ascertaining the industries’ skill requirements. The training partners are encouraged to submit their proposed courses when they submit their proposal for empanelment with RSLDC, considering the employability factor of a particular sector. They accordingly do mobilisation and counselling of suitable youth based on their proposed courses and ensuring the inculcation of right skill sets among candidates. The 10 convergence departments with whom RSLDC has signedMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) also do mobilisation of youth for the training programmes. Further, RSLDC also publishes industry-specific Expression of Interest (EOIs), wherein interested industries are encouraged to participate in the training programmes and provide in-house training as per candidates, needs. The provision of on-the-Job training (OJT) is also available in RSLDC courses, whereby training partners ensure youth’s participation.
The challenge of ensuring gainful and sustainable employment to Rajasthan’s youth is a major area of concern for policymakers, what measures have been taken by RSLDC in this regard?
The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) scheme since its inception has the placement based incentive mechanism. After the adoption of Common Cost Notification (CNN) by RSLDC, the Employment linked Skill Training Programme (ELSTP) and Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) schemes also have incentive parameters to encourage better placement opportunities for the trained youth. All these trainings are provided as per the NSQF aligned courses of level 1-4.
The State Government has also established the country’s first Government Skill University (RISU) with Bachelor of Vocation (B Voc) and Diploma of Vocation (D Voc) trainings of level five and above. This will boost the skills and employability levels of the youth. Another private skill university – Bhartiya Skill Development University (BSDU) has been also established under facilitation from the State Government. The university is conducting Swiss dual model of training with major focus on hands-on experience and is conducting B Voc and D Voc courses and is also providing an opportunity for PhD programme. All these courses are designed to make a significant difference for the youth, helping them take up a better and sustainable employment in the times to come.
RSLDC has also tied up with many industry players for better training and placement. In this direction, MoUs were signed during Resurgent Rajasthan Partnership Summit – 2015 with prominent industries like Caterpillar, BOSCH, Schneider, Asian Paints, Uber, Ola, Glass Academy etc. RSLDC also helped in the establishment of BOSCH BRIDGE Academy in 33 district level Government ITIs. RSLDC has played a major role in the establishment of Centre of Excellence for Tourism Training (CETT), Udaipur in 2016 with the support of ITEES, Singapore. This Centre of Excellence is a state-of-art Institution and is mandated to focus on training youth in hospitality sector courses. The trained youth of RSLDC are also being linked with suitable apprenticeship to augment their skills and create better job opportunities for them.
How is RSLDC making education accessible to remote areas of Rajasthan?
RSLDC is putting special focus on tribal areas, border districts and aspirational districts of Rajasthan. Looking into the skill training requirements of tribal areas, RSLDC has prepared a sub-scheme under its Regular Skill Training Programme (RSTP). Relaxation is given in certain terms and conditions to enable training partners in scaling up training in these areas and benefitting youth.
Similarly, for Pak Migrants, located majorly in the border districts of Jodhpur, Barmer and Jaisalmer, special circular has been issued under RSTP scheme and training partners have been directed to take up the training programmes for their livelihood enhancement.
The remote areas lack availability of suitable infrastructure to conduct skill development trainings. To take up this matter, the TAD department is creating infrastructure and would hand over these buildings to RSLDC for training programmes. RSLDC is also planning to establish ‘Mega Skill Malls’. These malls will accommodate at least 4-5 sector specific courses and will also have residential facilities and would train youth in large numbers. The sectors would be demanddriven with high employability courses. RSLDC is also planning to resume the mobile van-based skill training programmes to fetch the needs of far-off and remote areas.
How can a platform be created to integrate academicians, students, researchers and administrators?
The State Government already has a policymaking body, which is Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods (RMOL) being chaired by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje. Additional Chief Secretaries, Public Relations Secretaries and Secretaries of major departments are the member of RMOL. It also has representation from industry bodies and sector-specific national level experts.
There is another platform – Chief Minister Advisory Council headed by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. There are three sub-groups under it and one of them is education sub-group. This sub-group works under the leadership of Education Minister of Rajasthan and has the representation of policymakers, education experts, and international NGOs working in the field of education and skill development and other representatives. Thus, I believe the existing framework in the regard is already doing an excellent job and is rightly directed.
Centre for Electronic Governance (CEG) has been established to provide an excellent environment for creating industry-ready IT professionals through vocational training, seminars, lectures, and relevant software training. It lso acts as a readymade knowledge-exchange forum between the industry and the trained workforce, Elets News Network (ENN) takes a close look at its various functions and achievements in the recent past.
Centre for Electronic Governance (CEG) is an autonomous body established under the aegis of Department of Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan. The foundation stone of CEG was laid down on 8th December 2006 with a sole aim to provide a conducive environment for creating industry employable IT professionals through industry relevant software and hardware training. At the same time, CEG also plays the role of a bridge between the industry and the trained IT workforce that is readily available to be absorbed into the industry. Rajasthan is also the second State in the country that is running this programme after the highly acclaimed and successful programme “Jawahar Knowledge Centre” in Andhra Pradesh.
CEG Training Programmes:
Training programmes available at CEG are approved by Technical Education Department, Government of Rajasthan. The autonomous body of Government of Rajasthan under the Department of Technical Education provides certification in IT Training programmes like Big data, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Python, Cyber security, Ethical hacking, Android, IOS, 3D printing & Robotics, Oracle training programs, Mean Stack development, Cloud Computing, CCNA, Microsoft.Net, PHP, Auto CAD, Red Hat Certification training, C, C++, Linux training program, embedded training programs and other relevant IT programmes. CEG is an authorised education partner of CISCO, Red Hat and Autodesk. syllabus of all training programs are designed as per the changing requirements of industry trends. In addition, CEG also facilitates Summer Training Programs and internship for M.Sc., M.Tech, MBA, MCA, B.Sc., B.Tech and Diploma students. At present, CEG provides Six-Months MCA industrial-oriented training too. More than 6642 students have been trained by CEG till now under various kinds of training programs. CEG also organise faculty development program for Engineering/Diploma/ College Education faculty members. Furthermore, CEGis also associated with Department of Higher Education, Rajasthan, for faculty development programmes and online learning platform for students.
CEG aims to provide a conducive environment for creating industry employable IT professionals through industry relevant software and hardware training.
Other Training Programmes and Partners:
Contributing to the skill development in IT sector, CEG provides RS-CIT (Rajasthan State Certificate Course in Information Technology) training approved by Rajasthan Knowledge Corporation Limited (RKCL). RS-CIT has been approved by Department of Information Technology and Communication, Government of Rajasthan. This training programme is mandatory for various ITrelated jobs in the Government sector.
Further, CEG also has a Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) Skill Development Centre. The objective of creation of RSLDC centre is to provide a joboriented training programme for the unemployed youth to promote and facilitate large-scale livelihoods for the poor and vulnerable people.
In addition, the CEG is also associated with various industries to understand students’ skills and industry requirements. At present, it is associated with 3edge technology, Praganik, candid infotech, forsk, RSLDC, RKCL and project labs – all of which are its educational partners.
CEG’s Software Development and other Initiatives:
In Software development field, CEG successfully developed online admission software for Maharani College, BHMCT, B.Arch and developed android app for University of Rajasthan
In recent years, CEG has been successfully organising centralised admissions of MBA, MCA, B.Tech, B.Arch and BHMCT
CEG was awarded by CISCO for providing CCNA training to the largest number of students in Jaipur.
CEG is also a programme study Centre for IGNOU for BCA, MCA, CIT, PGDIS and CCITSK
CEG is also handling key projects of Government of Rajasthan, for instance, establishment of Technology Business Incubation Centre, among others. An incubation centre with 2000 sq feet are equipped with all facilities has also been established in CEG in collaboration with IIM Ahmedabad
A state-of-the art 3D printing & robotics lab has been also been established by CEG. This is aimed at providing concurrent training for engineering students and teachers of Rajasthan
CEG organised one-day workshop on ITenabled and capacity enhancement (cyber security) on date 14th September 2018. This workshop was attended by 29 participants of 27 different Government Colleges including professors, lecturers of different discipline and college principals of the Department of Higher Education
Placement:
Presently the issue of employability and a mismatch in skillset of our youth and industry’s expectations is a major issue facing country’s policymakers. While it is also true that a majority of our graduates have skills but many times they do not have any platform where they can show their skills and get placed. The Government of Rajasthan handed over this responsibility to CEG to provide a centralised placement platform where all Rajasthan students will have placement opportunities. CEG takes this initiative quite proactively. This is evident from the fact that through the placement drives organised by CEG, more than 1,500 students got mployed in more than 20 renowned companies and MNCs within a year.
Rajasthan, in many ways, is the home for entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers. Millions of young minds with brilliant ideas, new-age thinking and extraordinary skills are ready to take ahead the start-up drive. Leveraging this quality of the business-brains of the State, the State conceptualised an integrated startup platform called iStart, writes Elets News Network (ENN).
iStart Rajasthan is a one-of-its-kind, end-to-end startup development platform to foster innovation, create jobs and facilitate investment. The unique initiative aims to nurture entrepreneurship. It not only provides a prodigious platform to the investors but has also created a competitive environment among the youngsters working for startup initiatives. The platform also provides easy access to knowledge exchange and funding to new ideas.
Platform Launch: August 18, 2017
Start-ups registered so far: 700+
Services to help the Start-ups reach new heights:
Act as a one-stop solution for Start-ups, Incubators, and VCs for ease of doing business and assessing all benefits & offers by the Government
Help Start-ups connect with investors, accelerators, and incubators
Helping investors, accelerators and incubators discover curated, high-potential Start-ups
Mentoring to help Start-ups improve their chances of success
Content, workshops, and resources to help entrepreneurs
Help Start-ups to connect with the Government for seed funding or larger capital investments
Provision of 500 crores by State Government for Matching funds to Start-ups; including separate provision for Women & Green IT Start-ups
Programmes under Rajasthan Startup Ecosystem
QRate: Qrate is the only startup rating mechanism in the country, accepted by all leading venture capitalists and investors. It is an assessment programme which provides a detailed report on the start-up’s potential and investment worthiness. Much like a health report from a diagnostic lab helps you identify problem areas and take steps to improve your health, the scorecard and assessment report provides start-up founders actionable insights to help them strengthen their business plan, and improve their chances of getting funded. Under the programme, boot-camps are organised to refine product, strategy, business plans, and market position of start-ups and enhance their limitations. Worth mentioning here is all start-ups in Rajasthan are Q-Rated.
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Student Startup Exposure Programme was implemented to create a strong entrepreneurship pipeline among the youth of Rajathan.
iStart Nest: Government of Rajasthan’s incubation centres are the only incubators in the country providing free incubation to emerging Startups. iStart Nest is designed to help start-ups gain traction through deep mentor engagement, rapid iteration cycles, and fundraising preparation. iStart Nest offers stateof- the art facilities at its incubation centre with a wide range of resources and mentoring from industry tycoons. iStart Nest works with an extensive network of investors, accelerators and mentors to help entrepreneurs launch and grow the innovative companies that are building Rajasthan’s future.
Challenge for Change: Challenge for Change is an initiative wherein organisations are provided with an opportunity to partner with the Government of Rajasthan and play an important role in empowering the State to be the Digital-sthan of the country.
The youth, working professionals and start-ups can share their innovative idea or can provide an ingenious solution for existing challenges floated by the Government and bring change that will benefit the masses. It’s a dream come true for young entrepreneurs to have direct order of up to Rs one Crore. In this one of a kind initiative, the young entrepreneurs can directly work with the Government without following the traditional tendering process. Start-ups are neither required to furnish any EMD, nor any minimum years of prior experience or minimum turnover is required.
The major objective of this initiative is to invite IT solutions for various citizen-centric services by the Government and recognising & promote the potential of the young brains.
Rajasthan Stack: Rajasthan Stack is essentially an integrated platform which offers multiple services to sort out the technology requirements of start-ups. It is a one-stop destination for all the e-governance and technological requirements for the residents of the state as well as for budding entrepreneurs. Each service, resource, application, and infrastructure offered by the Government of Rajasthan can be accessed for free. The idea is to encourage start-ups and provide them ease of doing business, thereby paving the path for a concrete startup infrastructure in the State. The platform is open for start-ups at the national level and offers a stack of APIs that would otherwise require much hassle to get access to and work through.
Bhamashah Techno Hub: Bhamashah Techno Hub is country’s largest incubation centre which will house more than 700 emerging start-ups of Rajasthan. This world-class incubation centre will be a one-stop solution for all the entrepreneurs to get amenities like free space, connectivity, easier funding, mentorship and exposure & much more.
The incubation centre does not charge any kind of fee from start-ups as well as entrepreneurs and provides free facilities unlike other incubation centres of different cities. It will be the biggest incubation centre as compared to existing operational hubs of India. Bhamashah Techno Hub will provide a complete support system to emerging entrepreneurs. From assisting them to pitch their ideas, to providing mentorship and connecting them to potential investors and venture capitalists, Bhamashah Techno Hub will act as a launching pad for innovators. This 1,50,000 sq ft of incubation space will be entirely dedicated to entrepreneurs and for their development and coordination with the world-class facilities such co-working space, connectivity, easy funding, mentoring and advisory support all under one roof.
Bhamashah Techno Fund: Bhamashah Techno Fund of Rs 500 Crores for start-ups has been introduced to give an open sky to the potential start-ups of the state. The fund would be used for start-ups of the State for their growth and all-round development and to levitate the start-up community of Rajasthan to the highest pinnacle in the Country. Out of the 500 crore, Rs 100 crore is dedicated towards women entrepreneurs and RS 50 crore for Green Startups. The launch of Bhamashah Techno Fund has motivated the start-up generation of the state to initiate their own ventures with the support of Government. Bhamashah Techno Fund has been disbursed to eight start-ups within 10 days of its launch and 15 more Startups have been funded recently in May 2018.
Qrate is the only startup rating mechanism in the country, accepted by all leading venture capitalists and investors. It is an assessment programme which provides a detailed report on the startup’s potential and investment worthiness.
Student Start-up Exposure Programme: Student Start-up Exposure Programme was implemented to create a strong entrepreneurship pipeline among the youth of Rajathan. Through the exposure programme, the State Government aims to send 100 selected students from the state to an allexpense paid residential learning programme in Silicon Valley.
The programme is open to any student pursuing higher educationin any college of the State of Rajasthan. The top 100 selected students from the State will be hosted by Menlo College in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley. Over the course of two weeks, they will learn various aspects of building a tech product startup from renowned experts in the global start-up ecosystem. The participants will receive mentorship to build their prototype and pitch it to prospective investors in the Silicon Valley and gain feedback from them. During the tenure of the two-week programme, students will also get a chance to acquire on the job training at some eminent organisations and interact with successful founders and other key professionals.
Number of applications received so far: 10,000+
Such recent initiatives by the Department of IT & Communications, Government of Rajasthan certainly open the doors for budding entrepreneurs and students to make their entrepreneurship dream come true. These programmes will not only prove to be an excellent learning experience but will also motivate participants to become a job creator by starting their own venture and not lure behind corporate jobs.
Undoubtedly, with the launch of all these initiatives, Government of Rajasthan is developing a digital infrastructure to promote & facilitate entrepreneurship in the State. These technological insertions are boosting the economic standards of the state and boosting emerging Startups. Rajasthan has transformed into a “Start-up Leader” of the country with the robust, effective, efficient and active digital infrastructure – paving the way for truly transforming the Rajasthan State to a DigiSthan.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started the registration for regular students of Class 9 and Class 11.
Students can register themselves through the link available on the official website of the board –www.cbse.nic.in. The CBSE also directed all of its affiliated schools to register themselves before proceeding for online registration of their students.
The board instructed newly affiliated schools to contact the concerned Regional Office of the CBSE to obtain password for online registration.
In case of any difficulty, the CBSE also directed all the schools to contact concerned regional offices as per jurisdiction/contact details given in the Annexure released by the Board.
The Board has provided a field to provide Aadhaar details of the students which, according to the CBSE, “will result in accuracy of the students’ details.” However, the students who are not in possession of Aadhaar number may enter the Passport number, Ration card number, Bank account number or any other Government valid identity, said the Board.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Aadhaar is no longer mandatory for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), University Grants Commission (UGC) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams. The court also directed that there is no need to produce 12-digit unique identification number for school admissions.
In case of foreign nationals, Passport Number can be provided. If passport number is not available, Social Security Number/ID Number issued by the foreign country can be mentioned, stated the guidelines released by the Board.
