Centre in pact with Nasscom for upskilling IT professionals in India

At WCIT and Nasscom leadership summit on Monday, PM Modi unveiled the Futureskills platform and addressed delegates through a video

The Centre is upbeat about upskilling the Indian IT workforce in emerging technologies and will partner the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) in this regard. While signing a deal with Nasscom on Monday, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT said it would support the training of 1 million professionals of the 4 million employees the industry body would reskill in the next three-four years.

The Nasscom has launched Futureskills, a cloud-based learning and management platform, to disseminate knowledge in eight areas such as virtual reality, robotic process automation, the internet of things, big data analytics, and 3D