What is in news : The Karnataka government has constituted a Skill and Entrepreneurship Task Force for   entrepreneurship opportunities

Objectives :

• Equipping the youth with digital skills
• Training along entrepreneurial-based models with career counselling and internship/experiential mode.
• Enhancement of employment
• Roadmap for creation of employment
• Aligning market opportunities in digital services, agriculture/agri-tech and various local job-creating verticals like handloom/ handicrafts, manufacturing, tourism, retail/ecommerce and logistics

Members :

• 23
• Drawn from both private and public sectors
• Chair – P Ravi Kumar, Secretary to Government, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Department
• Commissioner, Collegiate & Technical Education is the Convenor and Madan Padaki, Co-founder & CEO, 1Bridge is the Co-Convenor
• Term : 1 year (can be extended if required)

Additional info:

• There are five subgroups and each of them will publish a work-plan with action items and milestones for 12 months.