Skill Development - scope
Skill Development - scope
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Enhancing the Reach & Scale of <strong>Skill</strong> <strong>Development</strong> under CSR:<br />
Possibilities through CPSE - NSDC Partnerships<br />
Mr. Dilip Chenoy<br />
MD & CEO<br />
National <strong>Skill</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Corporation<br />
Mr. Dilip Chenoy<br />
The Prime Minister has set a<br />
national goal of skilling 500<br />
million people by 2022. The<br />
National <strong>Skill</strong> <strong>Development</strong><br />
Corporation (NSDC) was<br />
formed as a public private<br />
partnership to promote skill<br />
development. The NSDC has<br />
been given a goal to promote<br />
the skilling/up skilling 150<br />
million people by 2022 by fostering<br />
collaborative models.<br />
Some estimates put the total<br />
spend of the Central Public<br />
Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)<br />
on items under Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility (CSR) at over<br />
Rs. 1123 cr during the last two<br />
years. Great work is being done<br />
under the leadership of the<br />
corporations.<br />
The corporations follow the directives<br />
while allocating their<br />
CSR budgets including that<br />
the Investment in CSR needs<br />
to be project based, CSR initiatives<br />
should involve suppliers<br />
of CPSEs and should work towards<br />
National Plan goals and<br />
objectives, Initiatives / Projects<br />
related to sustainable development<br />
should form a significant<br />
element of CSR initiatives undertaken<br />
by CPSEs and implementation<br />
of CSR guidelines should<br />
form a part of the Memorandum<br />
of Understanding that is signed<br />
each year between the CPSEs<br />
and the Government. This is all<br />
well known to the readers of this<br />
journal.<br />
The Prime Minister has set a national<br />
goal of skilling 500 million<br />
people by 2022. The National<br />
<strong>Skill</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Corporation<br />
(NSDC) was formed as a public<br />
private partnership to promote<br />
skill development. The NSDC<br />
has been given a goal to promote<br />
the skilling/up skilling 150 million<br />
people by 2022 by fostering<br />
collaborative models.<br />
Since 2010, when it first started<br />
supporting a sustainable model<br />
of skill development, the NSDC<br />
Board which has the Secretary,<br />
Ministry of Labour, Secretary<br />
Ministry of Micro and Small<br />
and Medium Enterprises as<br />
well as Additional Secretary<br />
Ministry of Finance along<br />
with 8 representatives drawn<br />
from ASSOCHAM,CII, FICCI,<br />
CITI, CLE, CREDAI, GJEPC,<br />
NASSCOM, RAI, and SIAM has<br />
supported the creation of over 80<br />
social enterprises that will cumulatively<br />
skill 66.5 million people<br />
in the next 10 years. This year another<br />
60 such organisations would<br />
be identified to be supported. The<br />
partners are approved after a due<br />
diligence process and got through<br />
three stages of scrutiny including<br />
the Board.<br />
Recently, the National Manufacturing<br />
Competitiveness Council<br />
(NMCC) had organised a series<br />
of meetings with CPSEs to discuss<br />
the possibilities of expanding<br />
the great work being done by<br />
the corporations and the opportunities<br />
to collaborate with the<br />
NSDC system.<br />
What came out very clearly in<br />
those meetings were that the<br />
CPSEs had a common set of aspirations<br />
in the area of skill development.<br />
Many were in search<br />
of credible partners to carry out<br />
16 Kaleido<strong>scope</strong> July 2013
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