NEW DELHI: Making India the global digital talent hub and especially the ‘AI Capital of the World’, The Data Tech Labs Inc. has come up with a campaign “AI for India”. Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan launched the campaign amidst over 100 MNCs, MSMEs and Startups in Delhi on Monday.
The campaign aims to evaluate, train, practice, provide internship, allocate projects, certify and employ, 25 Lac Indian citizens. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of State for IT, Rajeev Chandrashekar, AICTE chairman Prof Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, CCO Chandrasekhar Buddha, DataTech Labs CEO Dr Amit Andre, and AWS Training and Certification, India head Amit Mehta and others were present.
AI for India is divided into 5 events:
1. National Future Engineering Scholarship Examination: Aimed for AI adoption from Classes 8 to 12 students, under-graduate/post-graduate students and individuals wanting to upskill on emerging technologies.
2. All India Skill to Scale Avenue: This is for every student unconditionally who have passed out in pandemic years and have gap in skillsets as compared with industry requirements.
3. AI Ideathon: This is to encourage students and individuals to produce ideas to solve any human-centric national issue with the help of AI, data, cloud and allied sciences.
4. All India Data Engineering Quiz Competition: Data is new Oxygen, aim is to diversify knowledge on data across domains and verticals.
5. All India Jobathon for Cloud, Data and AI Aspirants: All the participants who participate and complete any one of the above initiatives will be given a chance to appear for 100000 jobs from industries in India.
“AI for India initiative is trying to bridge the gap between the supply and demand matrix in the worldwide tech talent, with Indian students. We are changing our educational policies to skill and upskill students to make them future-ready,” said Chandrashekhar Budha.
“AI for India will guarantee 20+ lakh internship, 50k+ industries and 36K+ institutions for digital India,” he added. “It will empower the 21st century generation in Arts, Commerce, Science, Architecture, Engineering, and other streams with digital education for employability and entrepreneurship,” he added.
“This initiative by DataTech is appreciable. To give to society in a form that builds a stronger future for the young generation, helps in building the economy and ensures India comes in the limelight as a pool of talent needs support and recognition from each one,” added Anil Shahatrbudhe.
Data Tech Labs CEO Dr Amit Andre said, “We are extremely privileged envisaging this campaign and contributing in skilling and building our nation. AI for India initiative welcomes the age of blended workforce, in which intelligent technologies and humans collaborate to drive business success and the Indian economy.” (ANI/NewsVoir)