AISECT, Microsoft and NSDC to implement skill development training for women

The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Microsoft

have entrusted AISECT Group India’s leading social enterprise with the operation of its digital project for students in rural India.

AISECT works in the areas of skill development, higher education, financial inclusion, e-governance and other information and

communications technology-based services in the semi-urban and rural areas of the country.

NSDC and Microsoft have collaborated recently to transform India into a digitally empowered nation through NSDC’s eSkill India portal. Microsoft, in association with NSDC, has initiated a project exclusively for girl students, targeting beneficiaries from rural and semi-urban parts of India.

The current project’s target is to develop ICT-based skills in girl students living in the project locations and generate employment. AISECT

will implement the project in seven locations — Bemetara, Rajgarh, Narayanpur, Bijapur, Durg, Jhansi and Chitrakoot.

Microsoft’s project works with the mission to empower females across different strata to widen the horizons of digital literacy in India. AISECT has pioneered 36 years of experience in skill development through ICT-based services in rural and semi-rural parts of the country and hence due to the synergies between the two entities, the project is getting implemented by AISECT at seven locations.

The group has been working for the uplift and financial independence of women for a while and is bringing ICT centres for vocational training to young women in rural and semi-urban communities.

By combining free vocational training, skill development like entrepreneurship and job placement programmes, the AISECT model has trained 400,000 marginalised girls in 400 districts in India till date.

In addition to that number, 2,000 women entrepreneurs have also emerged from the programme, successfully running their micro-enterprises, accounting for employment of 5,000 people today.

AISECT’s CSR partnership with Microsoft and NSDC is a further

step towards meeting the objective of targeting women beneficiaries in a

concerted manner and linking them up with wage employment/ self-employment opportunities, by providing them quality skill development training.

AISECT has earlier executed digital literacy, capacity building and skill development programmes for school students, youth, and construction workers as part of CSR projects of other corporations.