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August 2017
Skill
development programmes currently run by various ministries should be handed
over to the Skill Development Ministry with a sanctioned budget of Rs 25,000
crore, industry chamber Assocham suggested in a report on Sunday.
"Despite
establishment of a dedicated ministry, many skill development schemes still
remain with respective ministries with Union Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship Ministry merely being the coordinator," noted the joint
study by Assocham and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"The
Union Government should take core elements of skill development from various
ministries and pool them under single minister with a budget of about Rs 25,000
crore," Assocham said in a statement here citing the joint report titled
"Skills development in India-An overview".
The
government established a separate ministry for skill development in August
2015.
"There
is an urgent need to realign the skill ecosystem in the country to ensure
quality, scalability and sustainability as it is estimated that only 2.3 per
cent of the workforce in India has undergone formal skills training, as
compared to 52 per cent in the US, 68 per cent in the UK, 75 per cent in
Germany, 80 per cent in Japan and 96 per cent in South Korea," the statement
said.
"The
country is facing a paradoxical situation where on the one hand young men and
women with higher education entering the labour market are looking for jobs
and, on the other hand, industries are complaining of the unavailability of
appropriately skilled manpower," it added.
The
report has noted the serious challenges being faced by the Vocational Education
and Training (VET) system in India in coping with the demand and supply
mismatch in skilled labour. The Total
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It
is estimated that by 2022, there would be an incremental demand in India for 10
crore skilled labour, while one crore youth entering the labour force would
need to be skilled per annum.
As
against this demand, the available skill capacity in India can only cater for
25 lakh people.
In
this connection, Union Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Rajiv
Pratap Rudy said earlier this week that manual work has not been an
aspirational quality in India and education has been biased against skills. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"Sadly,
our policy has always been to put the students who didn't perform well at
school, or dropouts, into the ITIs... and they are not given matriculation or
higher secondary certificates," he said at a media briefing here. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"So,
we have ended up creating a system which has 18 lakh seats for engineering
students, but of which 8 lakh are lying vacant, without any takers," he
added.
He
also announced that in a move to boost vocational education in the country and
dispel its stigmatisation, the government plans to set up a central board of
certification for Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) that would grant school
finishing certificates, equivalent to Class 10 and 12. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
The
ITIs are to come up as Central Board of Secondary Education and Indian School
Certificate Examinations schools. The
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"There
has been a complete reform of ITIs' structures, curriculum, syllabi,
assessments," he said.
Designed
to facilitate mobility between the vocational and the formal education systems,
the move will also help students undertaking courses in ITIs to pursue regular
courses in other schools and colleges. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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