Skill Development - scope

Ministers of the respective States
to guide and review the skill development
activities at the State
level. As a follow-up, 26 States
and 5 Union Territories have set
up State Level Skill Development
Missions.
MoLE, MHRD & NSDC:
Key Players in Bridging
Skill Deficit
Tradionally, the Ministry of
Labour and Employment (MoLE)
and Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) are the key
decision makers for Vocational
Education and Training sector
in India. The MoL&E assisted
by Directorate General of
Employment & Training (DGE&T)
imparts vocational training
through Craftsmen Training
Scheme (CTS), Apprentice
Training Scheme (ATS) and Skill
Development Initiative Scheme
(SDIS). The MHRD assisted by
the All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) and National
Council for Education Research
and Training (NCERT) prepares
curriculum and imparts vocational
education through polytech-
nics and at school level through
open schools. In addition to the
above two Central Ministries, the
NSDP assigns a prime responsibility
to the NSDC, which has
been set as a non-profit company
with 49 percent equity funded by
Central Government and 51 percent
by industry. The NSDC is required
to set up a new vocational
training system driven purely
by the industry, through forming
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)
in high growth sectors. The SSCs
have been mandated to identify
skill gaps in their respective sectors
and to design standards for
competencies, course content, examination
and certification. The
NSDP has assigned a combined
target of 300 million to the MoLE,
MHRD and NSDC out of the total
target of 500 million skill persons
to be achieved by 2022. This in
turn indicates that these three organisations
would play key role
in bridging the quantitative and
qualitative skill deficits and to
ensure that a vibrant vocational
training services delivery industry
is able to take shape in India.
In order to achieve its own target
of skilling 100 million persons by
2022, the MoLE has taken several
steps towards expanding its vocational
training and skill development
capacity and to improve the
quality relevance of the training
imparted. Under CTS, the number
of Government and Private
Industrial Training Institutes has
been increased by 5230 (from 5114
in 2006/07 to 10,344 at present)
with a net addition to the seating
capacity by 7.26 lakh (from 7.42
lakh in 2006/07 to 14. 69 lakh at
present). Further for modernizing
and improving the quality of
training in Government run ITIs,
the MoLE is currently upgrading
500 ITIs as ‘Centers of Excellence,
for producing multi-skilled workforce
of world standards with active
involvement of industry in all
aspects of training. Of these 500
ITIs, 400 were being upgraded
with assistance from World Bank
and remaining 100 from domestic
resources. The remaining 1396
Government ITIs are being upgraded
through PPP mode. The
DGE&T has also launched a new
scheme called Skill Development
Initiative (SDI) in 2007-2008 to
target the informal sector by introducing
demand driven short
term training courses based
on Modular Employable Skills
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