Uttar Pradeh CM Launches Portal to Counsel Students on Learning, Career and Employment

On Thursday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister launched an online Portal ‘U Rise’ to provide students with leaning guidance, career counselling and knowledge about employment opportunities in the state. The portal is expected to benefit about 20 lakh students, getting vocational and technical education, as well as technical experts. The e-content, e-library, and online resources made available on this portal can be accessed by students even in the most remote areas of the state.

CM Adityanath who launched the portal Unified Re-imagined Innovation for Student Empowerment (U-Rise). He said this was part of the second phase of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Qualitative Reforms Programme initiated in 2017. The reform is meant to bring about improvement in the quality of technical education institutions. The convergence of educationalists, employers, and researchers through this portal, said the CM, will benefit students and empower them by providing every possible information ranging from online exams, digital content, digital examination papers, digital assessment, webinars, e-library, recorded video content to employment and internship.

The Chief Minister, besides launching the portal, also laid the foundation stones of new projects.

The U-Rise portal has been developed by the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University has in a joint initiative by the technical education department, training and employment department, and skill development mission. The Chief Minister was quoted saying that the portal was the biggest reform programme in the education sector after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. He said the portal will connect students with practical and technical knowledge. He also added that Uttar Pradesh is  the first state to launch a unified portal in addition to implementing NEP.

CM Adityanath said the project will serve as an example for other states to make use of technology in moving ahead and tackling major challenges. Adding that Covid-19 crisis would have been more serious in the absence of technology, he said the state government is also using technology to identify and take action against fake teachers who secured jobs by providing falsified educational documents.