The Indian government established the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 2014 to address India's large skills gap and growing demand for skilled labor. The ministry works to standardize training, increase the number of training facilities, and ensure training programs align with industry needs. Key objectives of the Skill India program include reducing reliance on urban jobs, promoting rural businesses, achieving gender parity, and training 500 million people by 2020. The program has increased the number of trade schools and enrolled students. However, challenges remain in expanding infrastructure, mobilizing students, and prioritizing non-technical skills. Public-private partnerships are seen as important to further developing India's skilled workforce.
The Indian government established the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 2014 to address India's large skills gap and growing demand for skilled labor. The ministry works to standardize training, increase the number of training facilities, and ensure training programs align with industry needs. Key objectives of the Skill India program include reducing reliance on urban jobs, promoting rural businesses, achieving gender parity, and training 500 million people by 2020. The program has increased the number of trade schools and enrolled students. However, challenges remain in expanding infrastructure, mobilizing students, and prioritizing non-technical skills. Public-private partnerships are seen as important to further developing India's skilled workforce.
The Indian government established the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 2014 to address India's large skills gap and growing demand for skilled labor. The ministry works to standardize training, increase the number of training facilities, and ensure training programs align with industry needs. Key objectives of the Skill India program include reducing reliance on urban jobs, promoting rural businesses, achieving gender parity, and training 500 million people by 2020. The program has increased the number of trade schools and enrolled students. However, challenges remain in expanding infrastructure, mobilizing students, and prioritizing non-technical skills. Public-private partnerships are seen as important to further developing India's skilled workforce.
The Indian government established the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 2014 to address India's large skills gap and growing demand for skilled labor. The ministry works to standardize training, increase the number of training facilities, and ensure training programs align with industry needs. Key objectives of the Skill India program include reducing reliance on urban jobs, promoting rural businesses, achieving gender parity, and training 500 million people by 2020. The program has increased the number of trade schools and enrolled students. However, challenges remain in expanding infrastructure, mobilizing students, and prioritizing non-technical skills. Public-private partnerships are seen as important to further developing India's skilled workforce.
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Skill Development Initiatives
Introduction In the quarter of January to March 2016, the Indian economy expanded at an accelerated rate of 7.6 percent per year, making it the fastest-growing economy. The country of India is able to pursue rapid economic growth thanks to its demographic makeup. As 64.8 percent of the population is employed, India anticipates significant growth in the labour market. It offers the nation numerous advantages in the labour market. Indian Skill Development India has a large labour market supply due to its young workforce. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was created due to global need for skilled labour. June 2014 announced the ministry. The Ministry of Skill Development was founded by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi due to labour market changes. It worked closely with other ministries to accommodate the enormous demand for trained workers. It established and laid down consistent and common teaching standards and collaborated with the organisation to create skills. It also unites other ministries to improve skills. It defines the goals, outcomes, and institutions that will achieve them. Skills Development involving important stakeholders is well-designed. It involves several stakeholders participating in national skill development. The Ministry and National Skill Development Corporation collaborate closely (NSDC). It aids training institutes in skill mapping, market research, and curriculum development. It boosts skill development to close the skills gap.
Objectives of the "Skill India Program"
1. The initiative is meant to lessen reliance on occupations in urban and semi-urban areas. 2. It will encourage the growth of micro, small, and medium-sized businesses by giving rural India plenty of job prospects. 3. It aims to attain income parity for women in India. 4. By 2020, 500 million young people in our nation are to receive training and skill development under the new programme. 5. The initiative will bring in numerous foreign nations to teach Indians in certain skill missions.
Impact
• The number of ITIs has significantly increased. In May 2017, the overall number of seats in ITIs climbed by 44%. The number of students enrolled in ITIs has also increased dramatically, from 17.80 lakh in 2013–14 to 22.4 lakh in 2016–17. Under NSDC, short-term training facilities have expanded as well. The number of training facilities has increased by 85.9% as well. Following extensive interaction with the business, 63 curriculum have undergone updating. There have been 35 new transactions added.
• Renewable energy, instrumentation, and mechatronics have received special
attention because they are expected to see the greatest demand in the future. Similar upgrades have been made to short-term courses, a model curriculum for 405 courses, and the content for 252 courses. At all phases of the skill training cycle, industry connections are encouraged in India's skill-based training facilities. The National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), formerly known as the National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF), was introduced by the Indian government (NSQF).
Challenges Limited capacity and insufficient scale Given the enormous demand for labour, the educational institutions' current infrastructure is insufficient. There aren't many highly qualified and trained trainers on the market. It illustrates the inadequate infrastructure present not just in large cities but also in rural towns and villages. Mobilization The work of enrolling students in vocational education and training has grown to be very difficult. Those involved in skill development still have a fairly traditional outlook on life. Since technical trades jobs tend to have little pay and little recognition, the students would move on to managerial positions. Non-technical skills are not prioritised While companies perceive the need for behavioural skills as well, India's vocational training centres only place a priority on the development of technical skills. Employers prioritise skills including domain expertise, communication, cultural fit, adaptability, result-focusedness, interpersonal competence, and learning mindset, according to the India Hiring Intent Survey.
Conclusion The most crucial element for the prosperity of the nation is skill development. To make the programme succeed, all the organisations, parties involved, and the students must work together. If possible, please read the policies Journal of Science and Technology in India. The country's job situation will change as a result of the book Skill Development in India: Problems and Opportunities. India must seek to make use of its "demographic dividend" for the benefit of the nation. By supplying the nation with a trained workforce, it would not only benefit the economy of the nation but also the "Made in India" initiative. Similar to China, our programmes for vocational training ought to be taught in schools. The Public Private Partnership is crucial and crucial to the growth and improvement of skills. By utilising an increasing number of public-private partnerships, NSDC has made some headway towards enhancing the infrastructure for private sector training. Throughout the past five years, this cooperation has expanded. Such collaborations are also encouraged in rural areas with a sizable population of hopefuls. To ensure that the quality is maintained and the model is also sustainable, it becomes crucial to enhance the relationships with the training institutions. Since there would be a great need in the retail and hospitality industries, the government must also put an emphasis on non- technical skills. In order to ensure that more jobs are created in the nation, the Skilled India projects must concentrate on and promote greater entrepreneurship skills among the workforce. In order to increase the number of people taking advantage of such a model, the Startup India and Stand up India programmes need to be actively publicised in the market. In order for the NSDC to successfully replicate the Skill India initiative, it needs also concentrate on the unorganised sector. So, from a skill perspective, the Made in India campaign will be successful, and India will fulfil its "Koushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat" aim.
