Govt develops ASEEM portal for sustainable livelihood opportunities

In a move aimed at bridging the demand-supply gap in the skilled workforce post the migration of workers to their villages and provide employment opportunities to millions of people who have lost their jobs, the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship has developed the Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM) portal that will help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.

The ASEEM portal, developed by the National Skill Development Corporation in collaboration with BetterPlace, will provide employers a platform to assess the availability of skilled workforce and formulate their hiring plans and in turn open up massive job opportunities for the unemployed youth.

The portal which has integrated all existing data of MSDC has added information of about 20 lakhs migrant workers under the GKRA (Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana). The ministry will soon add data of all the 1.2 crore candidates trained under PMKVY 2.0 to the portal and hope the number is likely to go up to 1.5 crore with more and more migrant workers being aligned to jobs in and around their hometowns using the portal.

According to the ministry, more than 100 employers, staffing agencies and demand aggregators have aggregated approximately 2 lakh jobs despite the current COVID 19 situations since the trail launch of the portal in June. In a small span of three weeks we have offered 14,000 jobs out of which 2,718 candidates have already joined the workforce through the portal, it said.

“The initiative aims to accelerate India’s journey towards recovery by mapping skilled workforce
and connecting them with relevant livelihood opportunities in their local communities especially in the post COVID era,”skill development minister Mahendra Nath Pandey said.

According to the minister, with the increasing use of technology and e-management systems which assist in bringing in processes and intelligent tools to drive demand driven and outcome-based skill development programs, this platform will bring in close convergence and coordination across various schemes and programs operating in the skill ecosystem.

This will also ensure that we monitor any sort of duplication of data and further re-engineer the vocational training landscape in the country ensuring a skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling in a

more organised set up, he added.

The ASEEM portal aims at supporting decision and policymaking via trends and analytics generated by the system for programmatic purposes. It shall help in providing real-time data analytics to NSDC and its sector skill councils about the demand and supply patterns including industry requirements, skill gap analysis, demand per district, state and cluster, key workforce suppliers, key consumers, migration patterns and multiple potential career prospects for candidates.

The portal will have all the data, trends and analytics which describe the workforce market and map demand of skilled workforce to supply. It will provide real-time granular information by identifying relevant skilling requirements and employment prospects.