New Delhi: On July 10 last year, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched the ASEEM portal.
Since its launch in mid-July last year, the Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM) initiative has extended more than 18 lakh job opportunities.
On July 10 last year, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched the ASEEM portal. MSDE Secretary Pravin Kumar said that the portal acts as a skill directory and has all information on industry demand, supply and analytics that show trends as well as capture the outcome.
“ASEEM is an integrated skill management information system which is designed as a workforce market policy instrument to improve the information flow in the workforce market,” he said.
As per the ministry data, most of the demand aggregated so far is in logistics (22.7 per cent), retail (17.4 per cent), apparel (10.3 per cent), healthcare (9.1 per cent) and electronics and hardware (6.2 per cent) sectors.
“The logistics sector has the maximum open jobs posted, followed by retail. Put together, these five sectors contribute 65.7 per cent of the total jobs posted so far,” the data revealed.