Digital Skill Passport
A verifiable digital passport for a worker’s skills, with jobs, courses and government schemes nearby. Hindi-first, on any phone, and checkable by QR.
The problem
Most of India's workforce learns on the job. A welder with twelve years on site may have nothing on paper, so every new contractor starts from zero, and skilled people are passed over because their skills cannot be verified. Training records, scheme registrations and job openings sit in separate systems that do not talk to each other.
What it is
The Digital Skill Passport is one place where work and skills meet. A person builds a passport of verified skills once, and anyone they choose to share it with can check it by scanning a QR code. Around the passport, the platform brings jobs, courses, government schemes and business ideas close to where the person lives.
A working demo is open at digitalskillpassport.org.
What a person gets
- A verified skill passport, with every certificate checkable by QR.
- Jobs, courses and schemes nearby, on a map and in lists.
- Consent-based sharing: profile details go only to those the person approves.
- Voice help in Hindi, for people who would rather speak than type.
- A business-idea planner and a personal finance planner, for people who want to start or grow something of their own.
- A helpdesk that calls back on every interest a person shows.
From sign-up to a better job, in eight steps
- Sign up
- Show your skills
- Get verified, including recognition of prior learning
- Discover work
- Show interest
- Train or certify
- Get placed
- Grow
Who it serves
Workers, students, gig workers, artisans, self-help group members and farmers, together with the employers, district teams and state officials who create and track work.
How it is built
- Open credential standards, so a passport can be verified by anyone and is not locked to one vendor.
- National identity and document rails for verification, without storing identity numbers.
- Open discovery networks for jobs, courses and schemes.
- Hindi-first, works on any phone, free to join.
- Consent and privacy by design, under the DPDP Act 2023.
URJA's role
URJA designed the platform architecture and built the credential core: issuance, identity, the data model, and the integrations with national document and credential rails.
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