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© Success Stories
© Key Challenges
© Policy Initiatives and Programmes
© Current Focus Areas
© Future Plans

I) Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society leveraging ICT to promote skill development and
employment generation in the state and a few success stories.
ICT is being treated as an enabler to ensure convergence of skilling efforts across the state JSDMS has developed an in-
house portal ‘Hunar’ under which all the major state government departments implementing skill development
programs can manage their entire skill development value chain on the portal from registration of candidates, candidates
attendance, assessments, placements and post placements tracking. The portal has dedicated user accounts for
candidates, TSPs, JSDMS, other departments to manage their activities on a single portal. The departments have already
started using the portal and the migration from the previous portal has also been completed. The biggest testimony of our
ICT efforts was all departments uploading their placements for the recently concluded Global Skill Summit and more than
1 lakh offer letter being recorded.
Further JSDMS has a dedicated call centre which is working across the skill value chain, and is a primary source for youth
to obtain information about skilling and/or employment opportunities, report grievances, share feedback and
placement feedback. Targeted SMS campaigns have been taken up during our placement drives which has resulted in
improved outcomes.

II) Key challenges in terms of resources required to further boost skill development in the state?
Skill development requires interplay of multiple stakeholders and the outcomes are influenced by several factors. We
need to identify opportunities matching the aspirations of our youth and create an enabling environment requiring
capacity building across the skill value chain. The major challenge we are facing right now is the lack of aspirational
quality infrastructure to take care of existing skill gap and fulfil the mandate given to JSDMS. There is an urgent need of
establishing a large number of quality training centres covering a wide spectrum of job roles. Though the national skill
ecosystem along with NSQF and its range of Qualification Packs (QPs) provides plenty of options, development of
curriculum for Job roles assessed to be in high demand in Jharkhand and not yet included under the NSQF, pertaining to
traditional arts and crafts in Jharkhand and offering more broad based and relatively longer duration skill development
courses through suitable merging of QPs or stacks of National occupational Standards (NoS) is an important issue.

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