AI-based platform SAHI to help industry find skilled gig workersSAHI, powered by India's largest pre-vetted contingent workforce, will make it easy for organisations looking to hire talent on a task-basi...
18 Feb, 2021, 03.58 PM IST
From automation to gig economy, India needs to work on its skilling programDespite running a skilling mission for years, India has very little to cheer about when it comes to availability of skilled labour.
24 Jan, 2021, 10.13 AM IST
Budget 2019: Pension scheme for BharatGovernment has gone all out to woo the unorganised sector with what is being touted as the world’s biggest pension scheme, the Pradhan Mant...
02 Feb, 2019, 11.10 AM IST
Making skilling part of education system a challenging taskNeed to strengthen skilling ecosystem with a regulator, more private participation, and by integrating it with school and higher education.
22 Jan, 2019, 12.41 PM IST
LabourNet to promote Tata, Google-backed ‘Internet Sathi’ program in rural IndiaWhile the Trust would provide the necessary frame work for the awareness program, Labournet would use its wide reach to promote internet us...
19 Jan, 2018, 08.56 PM IST
GAIL, NSDC, others ink pact to promote skill developmentThe MoU was signed on the sidelines of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the GAIL's 12" Natural Gas Spurline to Bhubaneswar-Cuttack a...
17 Dec, 2017, 09.56 PM IST
Job market eyes GST booster for over 1 lakh immediate openingsThe tax reform, to be rolled out from July 1, is expected to help the formal job sector attain an annualised growth rate of 10-13% and fuel...
25 Jun, 2017, 12.11 PM IST
Milk Mantra to educate diary farmersThe programme focused on clearing out myths and bring out realities into the conventional practices.
03 Apr, 2017, 05.50 PM IST
Tata Housing to provide training to one lakh youthOn the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Skill India mission, Tata Housing announced that the firm will provide skill development t...
15 Jul, 2015, 10.30 PM IST
BigBasket plans lodging for blue-collar workers to improve productivity, retentionBigBasket sees housing to serve as a tool to improve productivity and retention. The lodgings will be located near its warehouses and picku...
27 Apr, 2015, 11.25 AM IST
Women entrepreneurs show the way for workplace gender parityWith startups like Zivame, Embibe, Grabhouse, The Lebel Corp and LimeRoad among others, they are making their presence felt in the online s...
15 Mar, 2015, 11.53 AM IST
More than jobs, India must churn out job creatorsPrime Minister Modi is betting on three engines of job creation — manufacturing, IT and infrastructure. These are vital engines but each ha...
15 Mar, 2015, 10.42 AM IST
Banyan Green raises Rs 1 crore from I3N, other angelsBanyan Green Fuels, a startup that develops customised biofuels for clients, has raised Rs 1 crore from Intellecap Impact Investment Networ...
19 Dec, 2014, 04.28 AM IST
Festive hiring to help create 4.5 lakh new jobs in October-December quarterThe hiring landscape has seen an improvement in the past few months thanks to the revival in business sentiments and scenario.
21 Oct, 2014, 02.33 PM IST
Now, startups like Skillsonics, and LabourNet help companies hire skilled blue collar staffStartups, such as Skillsonics, and LabourNet, are reducing costs for manufacturing cos by helping them pick trained blue-collar workers, wh...
04 Aug, 2014, 11.29 AM IST
Social worker Gayathri Vasudevan's LabourNet helping the unskilled labourVasudevan invested in R&D related to vocational education and linked it to work. Today, the 300-employee LabourNet services candidates and ...
19 May, 2014, 10.34 AM IST
- Realty cos lose workers to services sector
Real estate firms are feeling the pinch of skilled and unskilled labour shortage.
12 Feb, 2010, 02.04 AM IST