Why India's Atmanirbharta (Self-reliance) depends on skill development....
- Rajesh Soundararajan
- Feb 09, 2021
- 3 min read
....and what role do tamper-proof certificates play in it
We predict witnessing an interesting trend in India in 2021. Out of the funds earmarked for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a large portion will be used for skill building the nation. In the recent budget, India has launched an ambitious plan for self-reliance and skill-building under Atma Nirbhar Bharat (Self Reliant India)
In 2014, India became the first country to mandate Corporate Social Responsibility legally. As per the rules, it is mandatory for companies of a certain turnover and profitability to spend two per cent of their average net profit for the previous three years on CSR.
In 2020, however, the bulk of the money was spent on fighting COVID-19. With the flattening of COVID curve and the focus shifting back to priming the regular business in 2021, we expect most of these funds to flow back into skill-building.
Many companies are already looking at how their CSR initiatives can be integrated into the government’s Atma Nirbhar Bharat projects. Working on building a large pool skilled workforce hence becomes a key focus area. The ambition for rapid growth cannot be decoupled from the availability of a skilled workforce, and hence skilling has become an even more crucial component in nation-building.
The challenge of fake-certificates will cripple its roll-out
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Tamper-proof and verifiable skill certificates hold the key
Tamper proof and verifiable skill certificates are the bedrock of trustworthy implementation of any skill certification initiative. With rapid progress in digital technologies, falsifying skill certificates is easier than ever before. The primary responsibility of ensuring the issuance of tamper-proof certificates rests with the organisations that issue them. It helps build credibility and ensures that they do not become yet another part of the problem.
Historically, creating an authentic document involved solutions like holograms, stamps, seals, embossings and the like. These methods did serve a purpose decades ago when the documents were primarily physical. Maybe then it was too difficult to duplicate and forge such documents. However, with advances in technology, this is no longer the case, and the traditional document security measures are found wanting.
How can you build a system that helps achieve Atmanirbharta (self-reliance), faster?
Degree Certificate with Secure QR Code
The skill certificate issued should have simple, easy and cost-effective means to build in tamper-proof security.
Such a certificate must be made secure in both electronic and physical format without complications and maintain its integrity.
Finally, the verification of such secure documents should be easy and universally understood so that everyone can follow the verification process and trust the documents.
How can you achieve all the three with a secure QR?
With a secure QR code technology from Qryptal, the issuing organisation can generate any number of documents (ranging from a few to several million) that are secure and tamper-proof and do this with speed and simplicity affordable manner.
The validation of such documents has been made simple and can be done across electronic and physical formats.
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