Reimagining youth skilling in India amidst pandemic, Zupee Skilling Academy launches e-Skill training program on World Youth Skilling Day!
15th July 2021, Chennai: As the pandemic-hit world deliberates upon ways to reinvent youth skilling, in a significant step, online gaming major Zupee has launched a special e-skill training program under its flagship initiative Zupee Skilling Academy (ZSA) on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day 2021.
The timing of the launch coincides with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for expediting skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling of people to meet the huge demand due to fast-changing technology. Declaring skill development of the new generation a national need, he called skilling the foundation of Aatmnirbhar Bharat.
Speaking about the launch, Dr. Subi Chaturvedi, Chief Corporate and Public Affairs Officer, Zupee, said, “Zupee is working to empower the youth of the nation with latest tech, know-how and non-tech life skills to make sure that they meet the requirements of the jobs of the future. Zupee Skills Academy is puting in efforts to proactively develop and implement new-age, sustainable skill development programs via interactive training sessions by integrating digital solutions for scalability. This is one of our efforts directed at answering the Prime Minister’s call for skilling the youth for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat and helping the nation achieve the 5 trillion-dollar dream by 2025.
The Zupee Skilling Academy (ZSA) is a continuous, sustained long-term project that intends to lead the biggest transformation in traditional education, learning and skilling. This program aims be the impetus the country needs to become the talent hub of the world for emerging technologies, as it has been for the IT and ITES companies in early 2000s preparing a workforce of the future and unlocking the potential of gaming for all, to claim India’s rightful place in the global value chain.
