Mega meeting on Friday to plan central database for jobs and workforce

Within days of the Union Budget announcing several proposals on employment, internships and skills, the government is embarking on a process to unlock comprehensive relevant information on jobs and workforce. In a first such step, around 20 Union ministries will brainstorm on Friday with the aim of creating a central database on employment.

In an interview, Labor Minister Sumita Dawra said Company standard that the exercise would be a starting point in formalizing a way to collect data that links the supply and demand of labor in the country. “We should have an institutional mechanism to