Government to train women who’ve taken career breaks in semiconductor industry

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The Karnataka authorities volition bid 90 women successful tier 2 and tier 3 cities successful the State, who person taken sabbatical for assorted reasons, successful VLSI plan and embedded software, skills sought aft by the semiconductor industry.

To instrumentality this effort forward, the Electronics Sector Skills Council (ESSCI), a State authorities outfit, has entered into an MoU with Marvell Marvell Semiconductor connected Wednesday.

Minister for IT and BT Priyank Kharge said this grooming programme was mostly designed for women who person taken a vocation interruption and inactive privation to get backmost to enactment aft a sabbatical.

“We person ever fixed apical precedence to skilling programmes to physique a future-ready workforce. It is besides our endeavour to assistance women who took vocation breaks to beryllium manufacture and exertion acceptable truthful that they tin instrumentality to work,” Mr. Kharge said, while addressing a media league astatine Bengaluru Technology Summit present connected Wednesday.

The inaugural supported Karnataka’s ngo to boost women’s information successful deep-tech sectors. It besides strengthens the State’s semiconductor endowment pipeline successful alignment with India’s increasing spot ecosystem, helium said.

Also, nether the NIPUNA Karnataka, a State authorities inaugural to skill over 4,000 younker successful collaboration with starring firm partners, the authorities has approved skill-development training by 4 skilling aggregators successful concern with imaginable employers including Capgemini, Wells Fargo, Standard Chartered, and Sumeru.

The NIPUNA was targeted for providing grooming successful high-demand fields, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and information science. Over 2,800 occupation opportunities were expected arsenic portion of this mission, the Minister said.

According to the Minister, the NIPUNA Karnataka is rapidly gaining nationalist attraction arsenic a almighty collaborative exemplary wherever corporates and skilling aggregators enactment hand-in-hand to signifier the adjacent procreation workforce. This momentum has already encouraged respective large employers crossed IT, ESDM, Biotech, and BFSI sectors to taxable expressions of involvement jointly with their skilling partners to accomplishment an further 10,000 youth, with the aspiration of enabling 7,000 much jobs crossed the State.

Published - November 19, 2025 10:50 p.m. IST

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