Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Nasscom's Skills Platform that will initially equip 20 lakh youth with a variety of job-oriented skills. The Prime Minister remotely launched the platform and the three-day 26th Nasscom India Leadership Forum (NILF) and World Congress of IT.
The Prime Minister could not make it to the event and inaugurated it through video conference. The Centre will sign an agreement with regard to the skills platform later in the day. He said the number of mobile manufacturing units in the country has gone up to 118 now from 2 in 2014 when his government came to power.