Context: Recently, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has launched ‘Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.
About ASEEM digital platform

• The ASEEM portal aims to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.
• Apart from recruiting a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and economic growth, the Artificial Intelligence-based platform has been envisioned to strengthen their career pathways by handholding them through their journeys to attain industry-relevant skills and explore emerging job opportunities, especially in the post COVID era.
• Besides identifying the major skills gap in the sectors ?and providing a review of global best practices, ASEEM will provide employers a platform to assess the availability of skilled workforce and formulate their hiring plans.
• It refers to all the data, trends and analytics which describe the workforce market and map demand of skilled workforce to supply.
• It will provide real-time granular information by identifying relevant skilling requirements and employment prospects.

Who developed ASEEM?

• ASEEM, also available as an App, is developed and managed by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based company Betterplace, specialising in blue-collar employee management.

The portal consists of three IT-based interfaces:

• Employer Portal: Employer onboarding, Demand Aggregation, candidate selection 
• Dashboard: Reports, Trends, analytics, and highlight gaps ?
• Candidate Application: Create & Track candidate profile, share job suggestion
• ASEEM will be used as a match-making engine to map skilled workers with the jobs available.

For employees/workers

• The portal and App will have provision for registration and data upload for workers across job roles, sectors and geographies. 
• The skilled workforce can register their profiles on the app and can search for employment opportunities in their neighbourhood.
• For employers: Through ASEEM, employers, agencies and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce in specific sectors will also have the required details at their fingertips.
• For governments: It will enable policymakers to take a more objective view of various sectors.

About National Skill Development Corporation

• NSDC is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated in 2008 under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (corresponding to section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013).
• It was set up by the Ministry of Finance as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
• The Government of India through the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) holds 49% of the share capital of NSDC, while the private sector has the balance 51% of the share capital.
• It aims to promote skill development by catalyzing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational institutions.
• Its mandate is also to enable a support system which focuses on quality assurance, information systems and train the trainer academies either directly or through partnerships.
• Skill India Portal is an initiative by the NSDC.