Empowering Indian youth through various skill development courses

Jul 27, 2021 | Business

Skill India Mission aims to empower the Indian youth through skill development. Under Skill India Mission, the Government through 21 central ministries/departments is implementing various schemes and programmes for short term trainings. Under Skill India Mission, Ministry of Education is implementing SamagaraShiksha Scheme with an aim to impart vocational courses to the students of Class 9th to 12th.

The scheme comprises of 55 job roles in 19 sectors, i.e., Agriculture, Apparel Made ups & Home Furnishing, Automotive, Banking Finance and Insurance Services (BFSI), Beauty and Wellness, Construction, Electronics & Hardware, Healthcare, Information Technology / Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITeS), Media & Entertainment, Multi Skilling, Physical Education & Sports, Plumber, Power, Retail, Security, Telecom, Tourism & Hospitality, Transportation Logistics & Warehousing.

Till March 2021; 13,50,175 students benefitted under the scheme.

Under SamagraShiksha scheme, provision has been made for basic facilities to students and trainers in the Government schools.

Under SamagraShiksha scheme, basic facilities to the student and trainers are provided, namely; tools & equipment for vocational lab, engaging guest lecturers, resource persons, raw materials, maintenance of tools and equipment, books, software, e- learning material, hands-on skill training/on the job training in industrial set up, office expenses/contingencies (including expenditure on awareness & publicity, guidance and counseling), field visits, etc.

The scheme is reviewed at regular intervals to ensure that adequate facilities and trainers are provided to students.

The information was given by the Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, ShriDharmendraPradhan in a written reply in the LokSabha today.

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Empowering Intelligent Travel, Making Life Wonderful -Year Growth of DDPAI

Apr 2, 2021 | Business

April 1 is DDPAI’s 8th anniversary. To celebrate DDPAI’s birthday, DDPAI holds several events online to express appreciation. Founded in Shenzhen in 2013, DDPAI starts its business with car dash cam. In the past eight years, DDPAI has been continuously innovating in dash cam and technology to deliver great user experience. Improving product experience and upgrading concepts and functions, DDPAI strives to carry out its original mission – to empower intelligent travel and share an interesting life.

“Hello, DDPAI!” – Sharing is Interesting
In 2014, the first product “M5 Car dash cam” was officially launched. As the first car dash cam equipped with functions like Wi-Fi interconnection and snapshot, not only does M5 dash cam record videos as evidence for cars, but also is innovative in giving the car dash cam social attributes with functions like remote shooting, mobile phone connection, video download, online editing and beautifying. Capture and sharing great landscape and wonderful stories, spread more “on-the-road” stories widely, the social sharing of DDPAI dash cam began to take root. “Hello, DDPAI” has also become the beginning to record a wonderful car driving life.

For eight years, DDPAI hopes to help people discover more novelties by developing interesting dash cam features and innovative technology of visual perception. From 1080P to 4K resolution, from TF card to e-MMC internal storage, from ordinary images to cool SR effects, from 2.4GHz WiFi to high-speed 5GHz WiFi, from a single recorder to the current car interconnection, remote monitoring … As DDPAI CEO Luoyong said, DDPAI’s innovation never stops.

Intelligent Travel, New Driving Ecology
In addition to interesting consumer products, DDPAI also does comprehensive and in-depth study of smart traveling field. Extensively cooperating with SAIC, Shouqi, Geely, JAC, XPeng, Didi, T3 Go and other motor companies, DDPAI strives to enrich driving experiences and driving efficiency by upgrading smart cockpits and smart travel.

Based on technology accumulation in the field of visual perception, DDPAI is also expanding cooperation with Huawei, Honor, Alibaba and other companies to provide users with multi-scenario intelligent ecological services; In 2020, the AI Vehicle-Vision (Works with HUAWEI HiLink) jointly created by DDPAI and HUAWEI HiCar has received widespread attention in the industry as its launch. The smart connection, rich application functions, and convenient operation allow users to experience smart travel rather than buy a new car. At the same time, DDPAI has in-depth cooperation with AutoNavi Maps and Sogou Maps to jointly create more intuitive and convenient AR navigation and smart traveling experience. DDPAI has been making breakthroughs to empower smart travel and create a new driving ecology.

Life is Limited, Live Unlimited
DDPAI always believes life is an endless adventure. Keep the novelty of new things, to explore, to do, to love, to image. DDPAI will always discover novelty with friends and partners, and run to an infinite and wonderful future.

Pinterest is empowering women this season through the Pinterest Shop

Mar 4, 2021 | Business

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Pinterest has launched a brand new Pinterest Shop collection featuring 25+ women-founded small businesses and hundreds of products all made, designed or imagined by women. 

In addition, for the month of March, Pinterest has created an International Women’s Day fund and will match donations from employees to nonprofits helping women succeed like the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Global Fund for Women. Because when women succeed, we all do. 

Working women were disproportionately hit by the COVID economic fallout. Last December, women accounted for 100% of U.S. jobs lost that month. There are even talks of a “Shecession”. Now, more than ever, they need support. 

Supporting small business has always been at our core, and in light of the COVID-19 crisis, this is more important as ever. Over the last year, Pinterest searches for “support small business” increased by 4.5x¹ as Pinners look for individual makers and companies to shop online.

“As a proud first generation American, I have spent my childhood going back and forth to Japan to visit relatives. My language skills are far from perfect, but I can walk down the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo or Soho in NYC and it all feels like home to me. Around the world, working women were the most affected by changes we saw in 2020 and so we launched the International Women’s Day Shop as a way to support and show our commitment to small businesses. Pinterest has always been the place to be inspired and discover new brands. We are thrilled to give these women-run businesses a platform to shine.” – Aya Kanai, Head of Content and Creator Partnerships, Pinterest. 

In this time of crisis, women are also turning to Pinterest to find inspiration on how to navigate change – searches for “women supporting women’’ increased by 2x, searches for “small business plan” increased by 50x and searches for “start a business from home” increased 4x. Boards created by women for “dream jobs” have increased by 10x² as they are looking to find new jobs, start a business or shift careers.