SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 99

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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Which is the joint digital skills initiative for employability through digital skills by National Career Service and Microsoft India?

(a)Shiksha Vani
(b)Vidyadaan
(c)Swayam
(d)Digisaksham

Answer

Why

Correct — D. DigiSaksham is the digital-skills programme run by the Ministry of Labour and Employment with Microsoft India, delivered through National Career Service centres — exactly the pairing the stem names, so option (d).

It was launched in 2021 to give jobseekers, particularly from rural and semi-urban areas, free training in basic and advanced digital skills so that they are employable in a digitised job market.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Shiksha Vani — Shiksha Vani belongs to the school education side of government, not to employment services. The decisive words in the stem are National Career Service.
(b)
Vidyadaan — Vidyadaan is a Ministry of Education initiative for contributing e-learning content, which does not match the stem's employability-and-jobseeker framing.
(c)
Swayam — Swayam is the Ministry of Education platform for online courses and credit transfer, not a jobseeker skilling tie-up with a private technology firm.

Concept

The National Career Service is the Ministry of Labour and Employment's job portal and its network of career centres, built on the old employment exchange system.

Government skilling now runs on partnerships: the ministry supplies reach and candidate data, a private partner supplies the curriculum and platform. DigiSaksham is one such partnership.

Because several ministries run schemes with similar-sounding names, SSC's real test here is scheme-to-ministry mapping.

The stem hands you both the partner and the platform, so the item can be solved by eliminating the schemes that belong to education rather than employment.

Key facts

DigiSaksham is a joint digital skills initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Employment and Microsoft India, launched in 2021.
It is delivered through the National Career Service, the ministry's employment portal and centre network.
SWAYAM is the Ministry of Education's platform for online courses, a different ministry and a different purpose.

Study next

National Career Service and the employment exchange systemSkill India Mission and PMKVYMapping schemes to the ministries that run them

Common traps

Filing every skilling scheme under the Ministry of Skill Development, when DigiSaksham runs from Labour and Employment.
Confusing digital skilling for jobseekers with digital education for school students.

SSC gives the partner and the platform in the stem and asks only for the brand name, which makes scheme-to-ministry mapping the thing worth revising.

A state welfare scheme is asked the same way at GA Q.21 of this shift, on the Kaushalya Matritva Yojana.

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