CDS (II) 2020 General Knowledge · Question 82 of 120

Correct — B, Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping. ASEEM was launched by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in July 2020 as an artificial-intelligence-driven platform to match skilled workers with employers who need them. The word that decides the answer is mapping — the whole point of the portal is to map supply against demand in real time, by State, district, sector and job role, rather than to measure anything or to run a mission. It was built and is run by the National Skill Development Corporation with a Bengaluru firm, and it has three faces: an app through which a candidate finds work nearby, a demand-and-campaign system through which an employer forecasts and posts requirements, and a dashboard that turns the traffic into analytics. It came at the moment it did because the COVID-19 lockdown had sent millions of migrant workers home and nobody knew where the skills now were.

• (a)Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Measurement — Measurement is the wrong verb. The portal does not measure or certify skills — assessment and certification sit with the awarding bodies under the skilling schemes; ASEEM connects people who already have skills to people who need them.
• (c)Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Enterprises Medium — Mixes in the wrong words entirely. There is no enterprises-and-medium element in the name, and the portal is not aimed at any size class of firm.
• (d)Automatic Skilled Employee Employer Mission — Gets the first word wrong. The scheme is one of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat family launched in 2020, and the name begins with Aatmanirbhar, not Automatic.

ASEEM is the skill-matching layer of the skilling ecosystem. Training itself runs through the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and other schemes of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and competencies are pegged to the National Skill Qualification Framework; ASEEM sits on top and answers the different question of where the trained people and the vacancies actually are. It draws in candidates from across the Skill India system, and by later counts more than a crore had been registered on it.

Expansion questions are best solved by asking what the scheme does rather than by trying to recall four words in order. Three of the options here begin with Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee, so the whole item turns on the last word, and the last word has to describe the portal's function. A matching platform maps; it does not measure. The 2020 context is worth carrying too, because it explains the launch date and the choice of technology — this was the year of return migration, and the government's answer was a live database rather than a new training scheme.

• ASEEM stands for Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping and was launched by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in July 2020.
• It is developed and managed by the National Skill Development Corporation, with a Bengaluru-based technology partner.
• It has three interfaces — a job app for candidates, a demand and campaign management system for employers, and an analytics dashboard.
• It uses artificial intelligence to match supply and demand by State, district, sector and job role in real time.
• It was launched in response to the COVID-19 lockdown and the return migration of workers, and later counts put registrations above one crore.

• Reading the last word as measurement. The portal maps supply to demand; it does not assess skills.
• Assigning the scheme to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Skilling schemes belong to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
• Expanding the first A as Automatic. Almost every 2020 scheme of this family begins with Aatmanirbhar.

As an acronym-expansion item, or as a scheme-to-ministry match on the skilling portfolio.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The ASEEM portal is an initiative of which Union Ministry?

  • (a)Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • (b)Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
  • (c)Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
  • (d)Ministry of Rural Development

  Answer(b) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — the portal is run for it by the National Skill Development Corporation.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The main purpose of the ASEEM portal is to

  • (a)certify the skills of trainees
  • (b)match skilled workers with employer demand
  • (c)provide loans to small enterprises
  • (d)register migrant workers for rations

  Answer(b) match skilled workers with employer demand — it maps supply against demand by State, district, sector and job role.