Important update from GSDM

1. Skill Voucher: This is inform all that GSDM is  in very advanced stages of talks with Tribal development department and Urban Development Department (and few other departments) and there is every likelihood that in all around 20000 skill vouchers of value between Rs 2500 to Rs 5000 would be issued this financial year which would be available to all the eligible institutes:
   Kindly note following type of institutes are eligible
1. Institutes recognised or empanelled by  Government of Gujarat department / body /GCVT/  NCVT :  To make it more clear : Institutes recognised by GKS, UMEED, DRDA, RSETI, RUDSETI, Tribal department, CED, NSDC etc. Separate affiliation with GCVT or NCVT is not needed.
2. Institutes recognised by or running projects of Central Government or any department of Government of Gujarat
3. But just being eligible is not enough the institute need to complete certain formalities to get proper skill voucher status on the portal. The process is simple but mandatory.
   Once these departments decide and publicise the scheme it is possible that you may miss the bus becuase of shortage of time. Accordingly it is highly advised that if you are interested in taking benefit of the skill vouchers the first thing that you must do is get the proper skill voucher status for the institute.
   The details are in FAQ at following link http://www.gsdm.in/FAQNew.aspx#35 but for convenience it is reproduced below.
   First kindly register with the portal.
4. Upload and update the list of candidates trained by you in last one year.
5. Get an account with Axis bank (The list of banks will be expanded lateron. But presently the payments will be made only through AXIS banks hence it is a mandatory provision)
6. Login on the portal and request for the desired skill voucher status after uploading the required documents. This can be done by editing your institutes profile on the protal.
7. In addition to this Download the format of application from portal 
8. Then approach to GSDM (Floor1, Block 16, Udyaog Bhavan, Gandhinagar) with relevant documents ie proof of account and empanelment.
9. A letter / certificate from the em-paneling or registering department will also act as proof of empanelment.
10. Combined application from the em-paneling agency will also be accepted provided all the above mentioned conditions are met for each institute.

2.      Employment letter :Kindly note that the feature of uploading the employment letter and linking it with the candidates is stable and can now be used by all. You may use this feature to improve the employability index of your institute.

3.      Online directory:

a.      The online directory facility is also working fine. You can now even search for “plumber” in Ahmedabad City. All the candidates who were “Trained and test passed” and had valid mobile number have been added to the online directory. http://www.gsdm.in/SatisfiedCustomer.aspx

b.      In future if the mobile numbers are provided against the candidates in the excel sheet used for uploading the data, then all such candidates would be automatically added to online directory if their status is “Trained and test passed”. So if some candidate does not want his or her mobile number in online directory then the institute should not mention the mobile number for such candidates. Once the institute makes them placed after uploading the employment letter such candidate would be taken out of the online directory.

c.       All such candidates can now be called by any one  to provide the services on paid basis. Not only this such service providers (being termed as RSP - registered service providers) can also get feedbacks from the customers and improve their ranking. It will function as follows:

                                                              i.      On addition to the online directory he gets a message:  This mobile is now registered at GSDM online directory. Just SMS the mobile no of your customers to 7600050060 from this mobile to get the feedback: www.gsdm.in

                                                            ii.      After providing the services the RSP would send the mobile number of the customer to 7600050060. Like “  9191919191” sent to 7600050060 

                                                          iii.      The customer would get a message: “If you are satisfied with the services provided by the RSP with mobile 9999999999 then kindly forward this message to 7600050060: www.gsdm.in”

                                                           iv.      If he does forwards it to 7600050060 then it would be taken as positive feedback and will against the mobile number of the RSP.

d.      Since most of these people might not be very tech savvy it is advisable that such persons may be shown a demonstration by the institutes. The feedbacks received by such candidates are also used to rank the institutes.

4.      Placement agencies and labour contractors : Very soon we are also allowing feature through which even placement agencies and labour contractors can also register their mobile numbers. We are very sure this will help the institutes also as employability of their candidates would increase.

5.      It is highly advised that to receive regular notifications from GSDM the institute must register with http://gujaratskills.blogspot.com/. 

Notice regd changing status for skill voucher

This is inform all that GSDM is  in very advanced stages of talks with Tribal development department and Urban Development Department (and few other departments) and there is every liklihood that in all around 20000 skill vouchers of value between Rs 2500 to Rs 5000 would be issued this financial year which would be available to all the elligible institutes:
Kindly note following type of institutes are elligible

1.     Institutes recognised or empaneled  by  Government of Gujarat department / body /GCVT/  NCVT :  To make it more clear : Institutes recognised by GKS, UMEED, DRDA, RSETI, RUDSETI, Tribal department, CED, NSDC etc. Separate affiliation with GCVT or NCVT is not needed.

2.      Institutes recognised by or running projects of Central Government or any department of Government of Gujarat

But just being eligible is not enough the institute need to complete certain formalities to get proper skill voucher status on the portal. The process is simple but mandatory.
Once these departments decide and publicise the scheme it is possible that you may miss the bus becuase of shortage of time. Accordingly it is highly advised that if you are interested in taking benefit of the skill vouchers the first thing that you must do is get the proper skill voucher status for the institute.
The details are in FAQ at following link http://www.gsdm.in/FAQNew.aspx#35 but for convienence it is reproduced below.
First kindly register with the portal.

1.     Upload and update the list of candidates trained by you in last one year.

2.     Get an account with Axis bank (The list of banks will be expanded lateron. But presently the payments will be made only through AXIS banks hence it is a mandatory provision)

3.     Login on the portal and request for the desired skill voucher status after uploading the required documents. This can be done by editing your institutes profile on the protal.

4.     In addition to this Download the format of application from portal 

5.     Then approach to GSDM (Floor1, Block 16, Udyaog Bhavan, Gandhinagar) with relevant documents ie proof of account and empanelment.

6.     A letter / certificate from the em-paneling or registering department will also act as proof of empanelment.

7.     Combined application from the em-paneling agency will also be accepted provided all the above mentioned conditions are met for each institute.

Kindly treat this as important.

Notice regd: Employment status and skill voucher status

Dear Registered Institutes

It is being noted that institutes have uploaded the list of the candidates but are not updating the employment status. Kindly note to improve your employability index you need to update the employment status of the candidates. If there is single employment letter / offer letter for more than one candidate then also you can upload the document and link it against different candidates.
The feature to upload the employment letter and link it with the candidates is fully working and you may do it for your candidates.

At the same time it is also important that you get your skill voucher status changed to "Eligible for Skill Voucher". Kindly go through http://gsdm.in/FAQNew.aspx#41 to understand the process.

This has become important as now Urban Development department and Tribal Development Department are in advanced stage of issuing Skill Voucher. Unless the institute gets the eligibility status changed to "Issue and Take skill voucher" it will not be able to make use of skill voucher even if it is otherwise eligible for skill voucher. To kindly avoid last minute rush kindly get your skill voucher status changed suitably.

Further kindly note that since the earlier method of sending mail directly is not working because few domains are declaring it as spam hence it is now essential that institutes must subscribe to the group mail to receive the notifications. You are requested to kindly intimate this to your fellow institutes. 

GSDM Team

Launch of Skill Voucher

GSDM is pleased to announce the launch of "Skill Voucher" scheme in Gujarat.

Further that the skill voucher has been formally launched in the GyanShakti function by Hon'ble CM. Though the details of the scheme is available on the portal, the main points are as follows:

1. Through this method anyone interested in funding the training cost of a candidate will be assured that either the funded candidate gets an NCVT certificate or the money is refunded back to the funding agency
2. Henceforth all the government sponsored / funded short term training programs being done in PPP mode will be done only through Skill Voucher. Other departments will have to reorient their programs in line of the new GR. Departments may seek exemptions with reasoning which will be provided on case to case basis for a specified time.
3. Initially all the institutes empanelled by any of the GoG departments or by Central government will be elligible to provide training on skill vouchers. To be specific all the institutes of NCVT, GCVT, UMEED, DSAG, GKS, CED, SCOPE,RDD, NSDC, VTP, ITI, Colleges, polytechnics, DOEACC, CDAC etc. They can train for any of the courses including those which are not specifically sanctioned in the empanelment. They are also free to devise their own training methodology.
4. All such interested institutes will have to approach GSDM to get their status " Takes Skill Voucher" on the portal without which neither they would be able to register the skill vouchers and nor would the candidates get to know about such institutes.
5. All such institutes may also approach the private bodies/ industries etc to get skill vouchers funded for their candidates. 
6. Companies who are interested in funding candidates as part of their CSR can approach GSDM for skill voucher. Similarly any philanthropic person can also get skill voucher for their selected candidates.

MoU with National Skill Development Corporation

GSDM and NSDC has signed an MoU on 11/1/2011 to work together for skill development in the state. Though the association is not limited to any specific area but will mainly revolve around the establishment and promotion of "Skill Voucher" system in the state. Whereas GSDM would try to bring convergence from the side of state government departments NSDC would try to bring convergence from the central government departments.

Apart from this NSDC would also explore the possibility of "Skill Voucher on loan" after having necessary tie up with some bank.

With all this skill development in state is poised to move to a different level.

Portal made open for Registration

Kindly find link to the news items on launching of the portal.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/GSDM-launches-job-portal/articleshow/7316779.cms

http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=3&contentid=2011011920110119025613271bd5ced7

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/state-skill-development-body-comes-out-with-vouchers-job-portals/738936/

The GSDM portal is now open for registration

Gujarat Skill development Mission proudly announces the launch of its ambitious portal www.gsdm.in.

This portal has been developed in such a way that in due course of time data of each and every institute, course and candidate of Gujarat would get captured automatically. The portal is offering excellent job-portal features to all the candidates of the institutes that register with the portal. Not only that the portal will also offer on-line directory facility to all those who do not get formal or informal jobs. The registration is free of cost and online. Any institute of Gujarat involved in training business can register and enjoy the excellent features irrespective of type or duration of the course or the ownership of the institute. The portal also offers a facility where any one from any part of the state can put up a request for Skill Voucher, a scheme that will be launched soon. The portal also allows any person to register and then communicate with the candidates and institutes for hiring them.

The web-portal is backed by Government of Gujarat through Gujarat Skill Development Mission. The mission , which is headed by Ho’ble CM himself, is an apex body regarding skill development in the state in mission mode. The convener of GSDM is ACS, Lab and Employment department of Gujarat. Apart from other things it aims at acting as true facilitator and creating a system that brings all the players at same platform and allow the market forces to bring best out the system. The development of portal is a step in that direction.

The portal is now open for registration. All kinds of registration whether as institute or employer or counselor or recommender is free of cost and online.

Looking at the potential of the two initiatives National Skill Development Corporation has signed an MoU with the mission and would like to show case the model to the entire country after it is successfully implemented in Gujarat.