Over 9,000 Nellore Candidates Benefit From FutureSkills Prime
Nellore: More than 9,000 candidates from Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district have benefited from the FutureSkills Prime scheme under the National Policy on Software Products (NPSP) 2019, the Center informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Replying to a question by MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, minister of state for electronics and IT, Jitin Prasada said NPSP aims to transform India’s IT sector from a service-oriented industry to a product-oriented digital economy, while also promoting innovation, intellectual property creation and software exports.
Under the FutureSkills Prime initiative, more than 27.53 lakh candidates have registered across the country and more than 17.2 lakh candidates have been trained on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data analytics and AR/VR. More than 3.29 lakh candidates have registered in Andhra Pradesh, including over 9,000 from Nellore district.
The Center has allocated ₹436.87 crore for the programme.
Prasada said many other initiatives have also been implemented under NPSP, including GENESIS, BHASHINI, SAMRIDH, TIDE 2.0, Digi-SAPNE and Next Generation Incubation Program (NGS) to support startups, language technology development and entrepreneurship.
He added that 24 of India’s Software Technology Parks Entrepreneurship Center (STPI) are currently operating across the country. In Andhra Pradesh, ‘Kalpataru’ center for Industry 4.0 operates in Visakhapatnam.
The government is also organizing workshops, hackathons, expert talks and outreach programs with industry bodies and academic institutions to raise awareness about these initiatives, especially in Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
