National Career Service portal Union Government has launched
National Career Counselling Portal in a bid to modernize all government-run
employment exchanges Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the National
Career Counselling Portal as part of an endeavour to modernise all
government-run employment exchanges. Currently, more than 44.7 million job
seekers are registered with India’s 956 employment exchanges. Of them, at least
26.88 million are men and women below the age of 29, according to official
data.
The web portal will be a one-stop platform for both job
providers and job seekers where registration can be done online. It will
provide basic platform for searching and applying for jobs on the portal. The
National Career Service portal was launched at the 46th session of Indian
Labour Conference. The portal aims to bring on board around 20 million job
seekers already registered with employment exchanges across India. It also
aspires to bring 900,000 establishments and companies on the portal.
It will also provide
candidates career-related counseling either by its helpline numbers or visiting
these centres along with other facilities like job posting, aptitude
assessment, job matching, training providers, skill courses and guidance on
self-employment and entrepreneurship. It should be noted that NCS project aims
at transforming all the government-run employment exchanges.
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