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AI-based skill mapping boosts access to talent, says secretary
Financial Express Kochi
|December 16, 2025
THENEXTFIVE years are critical for India to lead the shift towards smart manufacturing, and to enable this transition, there's a need to build a future-ready workforce, Debashree Mukherjee, secretary at ministry of skill development & entrepreneurship (MSDE) said on Monday.
She said the government is creating skilled talent that the industry needs through a raft of schemes, including PM SETU programme, which has a ₹60,000-crore commitment over the next five years to establish an industry-led, industry-owned skilling architecture through the hub-andspoke model, upgraded ITI clusters, centres of excellence (CoEs), and an expanded apprenticeship ecosystem. "Through hyperlocal (dis-
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