New Delhi : The Digital India programme is a flagship programmed of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The new skill sets that are emerging around technological developments in digital space, are expected to be in high demand globally in near future. Hence it would be imperative to prepare individuals to acquire corresponding skills for these future opportunities.
To ensure availability of trained manpower in new emerging areas of IT & ITES sectors, Directorate General of Training, M/o Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and National Association of Software Service Companies (NASSCOM) has signed MoU on 27th April, 2018. NASSCOM is now advising DGT on future of jobs in IT-ITES sector. Some areas identified by NASSCOM for introducing of training programme in ITIs, to address the futuristic need of the Industry (Industry 4.0) are as under
1. IOT Technician (Smart Agriculture) – The candidate will learn about smart precision agriculture, green house, drone and livestock monitoring.
2. IOT Technician (Healthcare) – The candidate will learn patient health monitoring system (PHMS), ECG, EMG, Heart rate, EEG, SPO2, tele health, remote health monitoring, robotics system.
3. IOT Technician (Smart City) – The candidate will learn smart city, smart lighting, smart parking, water and waste management, smart traffic and environment (pollution) etc.
4. Smartphone testing technician – The candidate will learn about identifying the defects and rectify the Smartphone along with app testing
Further, recently DGT has introduced Technician Mechatronics and Solar Technician (Electrical) trade under Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS) in new emerging areas, to start training programme in ITIs from session starting from August 2018. Huge demand of skilled manpower in above areas would be forthcoming and therefore, institutes need to be ready to run such training courses. This would help the youth to acquire necessary skills and be future ready.
To read more about the course content, read DGT, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship circular to state directorates and ITI (Click Here to view)
