{"id":34067,"date":"2018-10-30T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34067"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:11:20","slug":"railways-to-start-9-month-upskilling-exercise-for-employees-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/railways-to-start-9-month-upskilling-exercise-for-employees-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways to start 9-month \u2018upskilling\u2019 exercise for employees in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/railways-to-start-9-month-upskilling-exercise-for-employees-in-january-4933419\/\">Railways to start 9-month \u2018upskilling\u2019 exercise for employees in January<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Railways will launch the country\u2019s largest time-bound \u201cupskilling\u201d exercise for government employees to upgrade the skillsets under the project Saksham<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the significance of the project?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Railways will launch the country\u2019s largest time-bound \u201cupskilling\u201d exercise for government employees to upgrade the skillsets of its 13 lakh-strong work forces with a single drive spanning nine months.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Project Saksham, over the next one year, all employees of the Indian Railways in each zone will be put through a week\u2019s training in skills and knowledge relevant to their area of work<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employees from the rank of a peon to the Railway Board Members and everyone in between will undergo the training.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>When will the exercise commence?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exercise will start in January 2018 and go on till September, putting through training courses and specially designed skill-upgrade modules.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launch date of the project has been tentatively scheduled to coincide with the 155th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nature of the short-duration training will range from refresher courses to skills in the existing lining of functioning<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What will be the duration of the training?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each will be a five-day on-the-job training, or classroom sessions in Railway Training Centres, depending on the nature of the course.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting managers of all employees need to be actively involved in the pre-training and post-training process to ensure that the newly learned skills can be easily integrated into the regular jobs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Groups of railway officers are going to Jap<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an to train in various processes of the Shinkansen bullet train and heavy haul technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railways to start 9-month \u2018upskilling\u2019 exercise for employees in January Context The Indian Railways will launch the country\u2019s largest time-bound \u201cupskilling\u201d exercise for government employees to upgrade the skillsets under the project Saksham What is the significance of the project? The Indian Railways will launch the country\u2019s largest time-bound \u201cupskilling\u201d exercise for government employees to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/railways-to-start-9-month-upskilling-exercise-for-employees-in-january\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Railways to start 9-month \u2018upskilling\u2019 exercise for employees in January<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931866},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}