27-Sep-2022: Significant increase in vacancies on the NCS portal

The National Career Service (NCS) portal of the Ministry of Labour & Employment (MoLE), Government of India was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister in July 2015. NCS portal is a job platform providing a variety of employment services aimed at helping qualified jobseekers to connect with potential employers for finding suitable employment. NCS also enhances the candidates' personality through Career counselling, vocational guidance, and career skill training.

As of 26th September 2022, the active vacancies on the NCS portal reached an all-time high of 4,82,264 spanning across diverse sectors indicating a boost in employment in the country. The previous all-time high active vacancies were 3,20,917 which were recorded in June, 2019. The top 5 contributing sectors being- Finance & Insurance, Operations & Support, Hotel/Food Service & Catering, Health Sector and IT & Communication. The cumulative number of vacancies mobilized over the NCS portal since inception is more than 1.09 Crore.

Financial Year 2022-23 also witnessed a surge in the number of shortlisted candidates from the NCS Portal. The Shortlisted count for candidates between April 2021 to  September 2021 was 1,90,335. While from 1st April 2022 till 26th September 2022 the count has already crossed the mark of 25 lakhs.

In line with the Budgetary Announcement 2022-23 by the Hon’ble Finance Minister; the NCS portal now has API-based integration with eShram that facilitates unorganized workers to register on the NCS portal as jobseekers and UDYAM portal for the registration of UDYAM registered MSMEs to easily register as employers on the NCS Portal to post their vacancies. NCS already has integration with Skill India Portal (SIP) for registration of Certified skilled candidates of SIP as jobseekers on the NCS portal. The linkage between the NCS and UDYAM Portals has led to an overwhelming registration of more than 39,000 MSMEs on NCS portal, till date. Total  eShram registrants who have registered on NCS portal are 9.72 lakh. Further, a total of 41.52 lakh certificate data of PMKVY (Skill India Portal) has been shared with NCS portal.

16-Dec-2021: National Career Services (NCS) Project

The total allocation made by Government for National Career Service Project (NCSP) during 2021-22 is Rs. 57 crore. Out of this, as on 6th December, 2021, Rs. 12.58 crore have been utilised.

National Career Service (NCS) portal provides variety of employment related services.  As on 24-11-2021, 90.47 lakh vacancies have been mobilized, 9214 counselling sessions conducted, 6464 job fairs organized and 3.16 lakh job seekers got final offer letters through NCS portal.

Besides, the Government of India is implementing various other skilling/training programmes through various Ministries. Under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) of M/o Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, since inception (i.e. 2015), 53.26 lakh candidates have been certified under Short Term Training (STT), out of which, 23.59 lakh candidates have been placed.  Under  Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and  Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETI) schemes of M/o Rural Development, since 2016 onwards, 8.35 lakh and 20.39 lakh candidates have been trained respectively, out of which 5.82 lakh and 15.53 lakh candidates have been placed respectively. Under Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM) scheme of M/o Housing and Urban Affairs 5.95 lakh candidates have been placed after training, since 2014.

6-Feb-2019: Employment Opportunities to Youth Under NCS Project

The Ministry has signed strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with the private partners like job portals, placement organizations and reputed institutions for maximizing the reach of the National Career Service (NCS) project. These MoUs have been instrumental in providing increased access to the youth for a vast variety of employment opportunities across the country.

7-Jan-2019: Job Fairs

The Ministry is implementing the National Career Service (NCS) Project to provide a variety of employment related services like job matching, career counselling, vocational guidance, information on skill development courses, etc. 

The project includes establishment of Model Career Centers by the State Government/Institutions of repute to provide variety of employment related services using technology. The NCS project has also been enhanced to interlink the Employment Exchanges with NCS portal and organizing job fairs. Employment Exchanges/ Model Career Centres function under the administrative control of the State Governments/ Institutions and they are organizing job fairs locally for the benefit of the job seekers from time to time.