Skill India

Art and entrepreneurship, individually, are not new area of investigation, but are far from constituting consolidated topic 'Artrepreneurship', especially in start-up India and Skill India. Despite the perceptible similarities in processes, as they unfold in the business context, the two areas remained ramified in terms of research and in practice as well. Unemployment, especially among the Indian artists, has become exigency of Indian Government and Education System, to focus on 'Artrepreneurship Skill' development among 'Artists'. This research paper sheds light on the present scenario of raising unemployment among Indian Artists, its adverse effect on economy and developing artrepreneurship skills as possible solution. The results of pilot investigation from artists in selected cities of Maharashtra outlines the field of research. Possible other forms of introducing artrepreneurial thinking, behavior, skills in education system with special reference to Skill India is also discussed. The article ends by outlining the areas of further research.

The fine print of the National Education Policy 2020 introduced by the RSS-BJP government in July 2020 as well as the track record of successive Indian governments in education reveal that some of the very ideas that are causing much enthusiasm regarding the policy, in fact, mean very different things in reality.

This is a tiny effort towards exposing such untruths, to try to understand what awaits Indian citizens today and imagine what Free, Equal and Scientific Education for All, as a right not a marketable commodity, will look like.

- COLLECTIVE

Inclusive growth necessitates an economic growth process ensuring broad improvements in the quality of life providing equal opportunity to all citizens for overall development. Such initiatives include employment opportunities, access to essential services, empowering people through education and skill development, and several other needs of the society. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results) analysis of the 'Skill India' mission analyzing five flagship initiatives under the scheme. The study objective is to understand the extent of skilling initiatives launched, and to identify their achievements towards inclusive growth. SOAR analysis as a research method in this study focuses on current strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results aligning with future vision of the 'Skill India' programme for achieving national goals. Extensive analysis and synthesis of related literature on the initiatives suggest wide-scale skilling implementations by the government in collaboration with industrial and private institutions for inclusive national growth objectives. The study highlights crucial aspects and successful implementations which could guide policy makers and practitioners to further improvise organizational development designs in the larger benefit of the economic ecosystem. Further research needs to be undertaken on stakeholder engagements in self-determined change using big data sources and appreciative inquiries to assess their objective effects on inclusive growth.

"Around thirty thousand employees of state enterprises were relieved of the jobs owing to industrial sickness or privatization in Andhra Pradesh. These units in some locations were hub of the economic activity in the region and consequently with their closure a larger section of the population in the area are adversely affected. Job loss issue is a new social problem in the context of globalization and privatization and needs to be acknowledged as an important area of policy concern and social action. The problem is not confined to mere government enterprises but also the private sector.

The status of post job-loss livelihoods, especially in weak economies like the Antargaon situation, is important to understand how the life world is redefined by the social status of the affected sections. Many have been relocated with the repatriates going to Tamil Nadu and some members of their family still living in Antargaon expecting payment of arrears and reopening of the unit. There is severe immiserisation and casualisation towards downwards mobility including occupational shift towards farm employment. Local workers have attempted find livelihoods in wage labour, farming, caste occupations and petty trade. Incomes have drastically fallen down compared to their earlier earnings.

Job loss is both economic and social problem. Some of the public enterprises have social obligations besides economic functions. The issues of job loss as an emerging social problem is examined in the context of Andhra Pradesh and a detailed assessment of the complexity is presented based on the case study. After a decade the government had paid job severance compensation and offered vocational training measures to the affected workers still living in Antargaon and surrounding area. Capacity building and job loss trauma mitigation measures need to be local and cultural specific in order to be effective. The paper also examines the pattern of changing livelihoods owing to closure of an enterprise and draws conclusions for strengthening the community effort in addressing the new social problem."