skill certification: Plan in works to recognise skill certification of MNCs, top companies
The government has initiated a plan to recognise skill certifications awarded by top corporates, including multinationals, to their employees by standardising and assigning credits to their skills training and benchmarking it to international standards.While Microsoft, IBM, HCL Tech and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have come on board, talks are on with Google, Meta, Cisco and various sector leaders, a senior government official told ET. "The plan is to have at least 10 international awarding bodies in the…