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State govt ties up with UNICEF for students� career guidance portal

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, May 29 - In a first in the north-eastern region, the State government in partnership with UNICEF Assam, has launched a career guidance portal to counsel children on their future and choices of professional life.

The portal brings more than 500 career options to students from Class IX to Class XII, with specific focus on gender inclusivity.

The portal is a result of the vision of the State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for secondary and senior secondary students.

At present available in English and Hindi, the portal www.assamcareerportal.com, will also be made available in Assamese in the near future.

�This career guidance portal will help the student community to take appropriate decisions regarding their careers. The principals and teachers of secondary and senior schools will act as focal points for each of 4,373 secondary schools, so that they can orient and guide students on every aspect of the portal and how it can be used,� said B Kalyan Chakravarthy, Principal Secretary, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The department, along with UNICEF, plans to orient all district-level officials and teachers via a virtual platform. The objective of the portal is to help students stay informed on various career opportunities, orienting them about the requisite skills and education needed to pursue a career of their choice.

With all the career information available to the students with one login, the career guidance portal will also aim to serve them with information regarding numerous scholarship opportunities.

UNICEF Assam has been in the lead technical role for this initiative and has supported in development of the career portal for children in secondary and higher secondary classes with partner iDream Career.

The portal has been adapted to Assam�s context and it features over 500 careers that are regularly updated and also includes non-traditional career areas such as agriculture and food sciences, hospitality and tourism, virology, animation and graphics and sports and fitness.

As of now, the portal has information of about almost 19,000 colleges along with information on 1,150 entrance tests and 1,050 scholarships for students to access. The portal is expected to benefit more than eight lakh students from classes IX to XII.

�The objective is to address the needs of students so that they are able to choose a career path matching their aspirations, interests, inclination and aptitude, and also to link them with mechanisms such as scholarships, skill development programmes, etc.,� said UNICEF chief of Assam field office, Dr Madhulika Jonathan.

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