Performance Report – 2010 - Ministry of Finance and Planning

for establishing a close link betweenschool education and the TEVT sector.Policy measures should be taken tointroduce more vocational subjects inschools.3. Recruit trained instructors to cater topresent needs. Introduce moderntechnologies to facilitate training and staffto be trained in country and overseas.4. Address the issue of relatively lowfemale participation in the TVET sector.In collaboration with the public, privateand NGO sectors, employmentopportunities should be created to ensurejob security and recognition for them.5. There is already a shortage ofparamedical staff in the government sectorand private sector hospitals as well. Thiscould be fulfilled by providing suchtraining at public vocational and technicaltraining institutes.The total budget allocated for Ministry ofYouth Affairs and Skills development isRs. 5668 Mn. for year 2010.TotalIn year 2010, more funds were allocatedfor recurrent expenditure to launched avariety of youth development programmeby the Ministry such as Establishment ofYouth parliament, conduct theinauguration of the "International Year ofYouth" on 12 August 2010, Youth DramaFestival and Youth Sports festival.The Tertiary and Vocational EducationCommission (TVEC), with the associationof the International Labour Organization(ILO) Sri Lankan branch, designed acustomized policy framework especiallyfor the provision of skills training tovulnerable groups.A Vocational Education and Training(VET) Plan was developed for the Easternprovince. TVEC expects to replicate thesame in the North Western and SouthernProvinces in near future. In addition tothis, Industry specific VET Plans weredeveloped for the leather & foot wear andICT sectors in collaboration with theIndustrial Development Board (IDB) andthe University of Colombo School ofComputing (UCSC).A Technical and Vocational Educationand Training (TVET) RationalizationProgramwe was implemented by theMinistry of Youth Affairs and SkillsDevelopment, in association with theTVEC, to streamline TVET delivery bypublic sector training institutions. NineTechnical Colleges in nine provinces havebeen upgraded to Colleges ofTechnologies which offered NationalDiplomas in 2010.The Department has recommended 07Vocational education and Skillsdevelopment sector projects at a cost ofRs. 1714.37 mn. of which projects costaround Rs 451.62 Mn. were recommendedfor domestic funding and projects costsaround Rs 1262.75 million wererecommended for foreign assistance.Following are the key projects completed;178