AISECT Group, a prominent social enterprise in India, celebrated the successful conclusion of the Kaushal Vikas Yatra. This remarkable journey commenced on September 18 and spanned over 400 cities, drawing the enthusiastic participation of over 15,000 students.
Kaushal Vikas Yatra was started with an aim of creating awareness about the New Education Policy 2020 and career counselling among the students. The importance of skill development was explained to the students and all their queries were addressed along with providing career guidance. The Yatra was flagged off by reputed political figures, School/ University figures, etc. from different places across India.
Covering a total of 600+ AISECT Centres the Kaushal Vikas Yatra also saw participation from other 500 schools and colleges where the students were made aware about various schemes that are functioning under Kaushal Vikas Yatra such as NULM, NSQF, Microsoft Rise and the new activities that are undertaken by AISECT Group – Banking, Online toll pay service, AISECT Learn online free courses, Rojgarmantra portal.
On the closing of AISECT Kaushal Vikas Yatra, Siddharth Chaturvedi Director at AISECT Group says, “Through these Yatra AISECT group aims to educate the youth of our country about importance of inculcating skill-based oriented curriculum in our studies. In the coming years, Kaushal Vikas will play a key role in our country’s development and a person proficient in skilling will have a better chance at employment”.
Once the Kaushal Yatra was completed, on-the-spot counselling was organized at all AISECT centers for students from other cities for the next two-three days, who were not able to attend it.
For many years, AISECT has been undertaking unique initiatives to help the youth understand the importance of skill development through Kaushal Vikas Yatra, which has also been rewarded by national and international agencies. It is noteworthy that under the recent agreement between AISECT and NSDC, admission for various computer related courses have also been started. More than 250 diplomas and certificate courses have been included in this. AISECT Group is the preferred nodal institution by NSDC.