Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship: Key Achievements and Success Stories in 2015
Ministry of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship: Key Achievements and Success Stories in 2015
Year End
Review
Why Skill India?
Skill India seeks to give all
Indians, the opportunity to aspire and achieve a better future for themselves
and their families. A combination of demographic, economic and social factors
makes skill development an urgent policy priority for India.
The challenge is immense. 54%
of India’s population is below 25 years of age and over 62% of the population
is the working-age group. Yet, only 4.69% of the Indian population has
undergone formal skills training. By 2025, almost 1 in 5 of the world’s working
age population (18.3%) will beIndian. Recent skill gap reports suggest that
over 109 million incremental human resources will be required in India alone,
across 24 key sectors by the year 2022. 93% of India’s workers work in the
unorganised sector and acquire skills through informal channels and lack formal
certification. How can India’s skill training ecosystem be equipped to cope
with these diverse challenges?
India’s first Department of
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was established in July 2014 under the
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to specifically focus on addressing the
above challenges. This Department became a full-fledged Ministry of Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in November 2014, when Shri Rajiv
Pratap Rudy was inducted into the Council of Ministers. The primary focus of
MSDE is to develop a robust policy framework and programme of action for
scaling up skill development efforts in India, at speed and scale, while
ensuring quality outcomes. The major initiatives taken over the past nine
months by MSDE, in order to lay a strong foundation for the skill training and
entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country are detailed below:
I. Establishing a Clear Policy
Framework: Policy, Mission, Common Norms
MSDE has taken three major
policy initiatives during its first few months of existence.
· National Policy for Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, unveiled in July 2015. The Policyarticulates a
framework for skilling at scale and speed while ensuring high quality outcomes. Policy
Implementation Unit
(PIU) set up and a system of
quarterly monitoring of key elements of policy has been established.
· National Skill Development
Mission approved in July 2015 The Missionseeks to converge, coordinate, implement
and monitor skilling activities on a pan-India basis. Governing Council,
Steering Committee and Executive Committee notified. Sub Missions and interface
with State Skill Missions would be made operational within March’16.
Common Norms for all skill
development programmes across Central Ministries/Departments have been
notified. Meetings and consultations for adoption of Common Norms held.
Complete alignment to be done by 1.4.2016.
India now has a robust policy
framework to scale up skill development initiatives across the country. Having
set out the policy framework, MSDE has also been working on developing a
coherent programme of action.
II. Developing a Programme of
Action: Key Achievements
· Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana (PMKVY) MSDE’s flagship
outcome-based skill training scheme, was launched by the Prime Minister on 15
July 2015. A pilot phase of the scheme was initiated on 25 May 2015. PMKVY aims
to incentivise young people to enrol in skill development initiatives, by
providing a monetary reward to every young person who successfully completes an
approved skill training programme, with an affiliated training provider. PMKVY
is funded by Government of India and implemented through National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC). 24 lakh youth across India will be trained
under PMKVY in the next one year, of which 14 lakh trainees will be fresh
entrants. 50,000 Persons with Disabilities will also be trained under PMKVY. In
addition, youth who do not possess formal certification, will be assessed and
certified through an initiative known as Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in
PMKVY. 10 lakh youth will be trained under the RPL initiative, over the next
year. This will be an important effort to recognize the skills and open up new
job opportunities for a vast majority of young Indians who acquire skills
through informal channels or work in the unorganised sector.
Achievements under PMKVY:5.17
lakh enrolled in fresh training and balance target allocated; Pilot in RPL done
and target of 5 lakh allocated. Target of 14 lakh fresh training and 10
lakh RPL would be achieved by March 2016.
· Industrial
Training Institutes (ITI), which were formerly under
Ministry of Labour and Employment have were transferred to MSDE in April this
year. A number of initiatives are being undertaken to revitalise these
organisations. This includes for example, upgrading their curriculum (in
collaboration with industry experts), strengthening industry linkages, scaling
up apprenticeships, modernising equipment and facilities within ITIs etc. In addition, 34 ITIs and 68
Skill Development Centres are also being established in 34 Left Wing Extremism
(LWE) affected districts to open up employment opportunities for youth in these
areas. These initiatives are aimed at improving the quality of training in
these institutions and ensuring that students who complete ITI courses are
employable.
Achievements: 1141 new ITIs with 1.73 lakh seats added in past 1 year. Total now 13,105
ITIs with 18.7 lakh seats in 126 trades;
· Apprenticeships: The Apprenticeship Act was
Modiefied in 2014, to incentivise employers to take on more apprentices. New
Apprentices rules notified on 18 June’15 enabling 4-fold increase in
apprentices. Advocacy campaign among industry taken up and online portal
launched. Upward trend in enrollment already noted this year.
· Strategic partnerships have also been
undertaken between MSDE and other Ministries/Departments in the Central
Government, to collaborate on scaling up skill training activities in specific
sectors. MSDE now has strategic partnerships with Ministries/Departments,
including Ministries of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department for
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities), Health and Family Welfare, Steel,
Mines, Railways, Defence and Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals
and Petrochemicals, Department of Fertilizers, Department of Pharmaceuticals)(Annexure).
Public Sector Units (PSUs) within these sectors and related contractors will be
encouraged to hire workers certified in job roles aligned to NSQF, utilize CSR
funds for skill training purposes and set up Centres of Excellence in
collaboration with DGT or NSDC, through these strategic partnerships. These
partnerships will play an important role in scaling up skill training
initiatives and ensuring that skill training takes place at high quality, in
each of these sectors.
· Overseas Employment:Study report on overseas
employment opportunities received and action plan being developed. MoU
with Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MoOIA) finalized to launch Pravasi
Kaushal Viskas Yojana for pre-departure cum orientation programme of
emigrants.
· National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC) has been
established in 2010 in order to catalyse private sector involvement in the area
of skill development. Over the last one year, NSDC
partners have skilled 24.93 lakh people and placed about 12 lakh people through
its ecosystem.As on 31st Oct 2015 NSDC funded
partners have trained a total of59.3 lakh students. 24.5 lakh
students have been placed. Placement percentage stands atabout 64% for
NSDC funded skilling partners (excluding training under all special schemes).
To ensure that training undertaken from any recognized training provider is
industry aligned, NSDC is funding industry led Sector Skill Councils (SSCs)
that create National Occupation Standards (NOS). Till date, NSDC Board has
approved 39 Sector Skill Councils. Out of these 28 have been funded and 31 are
operational.
Post November
2014, the following 8 New SSCs have been approved
1.
Chemical & Petrochemical SSC
2.
Paints & Coatings SSC (IPA)
3.
Management SSC
4.
Green Job SSC
5.
Strategic Manufacturing SSC
6.
Furniture & Fitting SSC
7.
PWD SSC
8.
Instrumentation SSC
· The number of SSCs which
developed National Occupational Standards (NOS) has grown from 22 in Nov 2014
to 31 by end of Oct 2015. During this 1 year, SSCs developed QPs
(Qualification Packs) for 614 job roles. To date, there are 1507 QPs containing
8302 NOSs out of which 3523 are unique NOS. 1016 QPs designed by the
SSC’s have been registered as National Standards.
· Skill Gap Studies: Completed for 26 (24+2)
sectors; District-wise studies completed for all States; Environmental scan
commissioned to be overseen by joint groups of related Ministries / SSCs.
· Udaan: Special Industry
initiative for youth (graduates) from J&K to cover 40,000 in 5 years funded
by MHA implemented by NSDC. Trained 10,555 youth, placed 4984 so far.
· National Skill Development
Agency (NSDA): which is also a part of the Ministry plays an important role as a normative
body. Its focus is on ensuring that skill training programmes are aligned to
National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) and quality assurance mechanisms
are operational. Till date, NSDA has 1461 qualifications (1345 from SSCs &
116 NCVT) have been aligned to NSQF. NSDA has also held workshops with 10 other
Union Ministries and State Governments to Operationalise NSQF.
· Entrepreneurship: NIESBUD has already covered
1,98,000 trainees under CD-based Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP).
The institute will cover 2,00,000 more trainees by 31st March
2015.
· International Collaborations: MSDE has signed MoUs with
Germany, UK, China and Australia, to scale up apprenticeships, support,
training of trainers, curriculum development, ensure benchmarking of standards
and create Centres of Excellence in skill training across the country.
Success Stories:
· World Skills: NSDC
has been spearheading India’s participation at the WorldSkill Competitions
since 2010. India participated in27 Skills with 29 competitors selected
from across India. For WSC 2015, 5 new Skills were identified namely Prototype
Modelling, Aircraft Maintenance, Brick Laying, Wall and Floor Tiling and Visual
Merchandising. India won 8 medallions of excellence in Beauty
Therapy, Welding, Graphic Design Technology, Prototype Modelling, Jewellery
Design, Plastic Die Engineering, Hairdressing and Bricklaying. As a prelude to
the preparation promising candidates and trainers in 14 skills were given
international exposure at theOCEANIA competition in New Zealand. Apart
from India 6 other countries (China, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada
and Korea) participated in the competition. The Indian contingent consisted of
34 members in 14 skills and came home with 6 medals withGold Medal in Beauty Therapy,
Silver Medal in Jewellery Making and in Pastry and Confectionery, Bronze Medal
in Bricklaying, Auto body Repair and Wall & Floor Tiling. The 44th WSC
Competitions will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 14-19 October 2017.
Annexure
Central
Ministries/Departments signing MoUs with Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship for Skill Development
1) Department
of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
2) Ministry
of Defence
3) Ministry
of Railways
4) Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare
5) Dept.
of Fertilisers
6) Dept.
of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals
7) Dept.
of Pharmaceuticals
8) Ministry
of Steel
9) Ministry
of Mines
10) Coal
India (Ministry of Coal)
11) National
Thermal Power Corporation, Power Grid (Ministry of Power)
12) Department
of Heavy Industries
13) Ministry of
Overseas Indian Affairs (MoU finalized)
14) Airport
Authority of India (MoU finalized)
Overall Key Elements of MoUs
· Leverage
existing government infrastructure to deliver skill training programmes
· Mobilize
CSR funds of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) to support skilling
· Upgrade
equipment of ITIs and NSDC/SSC affiliated training providers
· Promote
and scale up apprenticeship training in PSUs in coordination with DGT
· Incentivize
hiring of NSQF certified personnel
· Promote
adoption of ITIs by PSUs, including provision of technical and resource support
· Introduce
vocational courses in schools run by Ministries/PSUs
· Establish
‘Centres of Excellence’ for high quality skill training
· Align
training programmes to NSQF and mobilize workforce for Recognition of Prior
Learning (RPL)
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