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New Delhi : Union Minister of State for Culture & Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal launched a career counselling workshop ‘Pramarsh 2022′ on February 15, 2022, for the students of the Bikaner District region in Rajasthan. Over one lakh students participated from more than thousands schools of Bikaner District mainly from rural area participated at the workshop.
The workshop was conducted with the support of The National Institute of Career Services (NICS) which comes under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, and educational start-up Edumilestones. Directorate of Education, Rajasthan, also extended the support and facilitation for this workshop.
Meghwal stated that under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the central government has taken various initiatives to bring out the full potential of the Youth in Nation Building Process, according to a PIB release.
The Minister further added,“ The ongoing technological changes and digital transformation have led to changing the pedagogy and learning methodology for students. The present 4th Industrial Revolution Era has brought out new dimensions to the career opportunities across the sector. The emerging trend of the start-up ecosystem increasing the number of unicorns is a positive sign and testimony of the brilliance of the younger generation”. Appreciating the organisers’ efforts, he mentioned that the career counselling workshop like “Pramarsh” will help students make a more informed decisions’’.
The students from the private and government school from the remote area solicited guidance from the domain experts from Business, Policy planning, Industries Associations, Art, Culture, Media, Medical, Architecture, Biotechnology, and Finance and Marketing sectors. Surendra Patawari, Chairman of Gemini Corporation from Belgium, Bindeshwari Pathak, Founder of Sulabh International, Rajender Singh Pahl, CEO of Star Promotion from Huston, Rajendra Ratanu, JS DPIIT, Shreyas Bothra, Nari Shakti Awardee Ruma Devi, among others joined the workshop as a special guest and inspired students with their motivating thoughts.
Before this mega career counselling workshop, around 1,000 teachers were trained as career ambassadors in all schools of Bikaner for smooth and purposeful execution of the entire project. “Pramarsh2022” workshop is an extension of the efforts to bridge the industry academia gap and impart the knowledge about various choices available to the student. The ongoing workshop is not limited to training of teachers and career workshop for students, but it is also proposed that an offline and online career assessment and service of Edumilestones digital career library will be facilitated to all students.