By Prof. Sanmaya Rath.
After the successful implementation of Digital India and Make in India campaigns, Government of India has made a nationwide launching parade of multiple skills programme called “Skill India Mission”, a saga in the academic world for all Indians by blood and taste. Now let’s analyse the nuts and bolts of Skill Development Mission by GoI which is illustrated below:
About It?
The primary aim is to create a framework of training, skill upliftment &employment opportunities for more than 500 million youth of India by 2020. Many schemes like PMKVY, DDU-GKY are also supposed to attain this objective. These training programmes would not only fulfil the domestic labour demand but also the global manpower requirements of countries like Japan ,the USA, China, Germany, Russia and rest of West Asia. Initially companies like IL&FS, CCD, and Centurion University have come forward to channelize the naxalites into main stream of society which is a notable success in the history of skill development. In the ages to come India will be witnessing many corporate biggies taking up skills as a CSR initiative in the industry.
Key Features
The whole focus is to create the employment avenues and scope of entrepreneurship in various trades like gems & jewellery, automobile, banking, retail sales, tailoring, sewing machine operation and so on. Rural India Skill is another milestone of this programme which emphasizes on domain & non domain training
Rewind
It has now become a priority of the nation & is quite different from the past ones. It is in fact a three tier system where the central & state governments and PIAs, SSCs, NCVT, NSDC etc. have joined hands for stability and better jobs than traditional jobs.
Skill India as Trend
The main concept is to enhance confidence, improve productivityof the youth through up skilling, new skilling and reskilling so that they get blue-collar jobs in order to get a better life& respect in the society.
To Sum Up
But the main challenges of its 2.0 version are as follows:
It is quite pathetic that 2.3% of the Indian workers haveavailed the skill benefits, in comparison to 68% in UK and 52% in the US. Hence more dropped out candidates need to be channelized &mobilized.
Skilling is deemed to be the final destination for those dropped outs that couldn’t succeed in traditional academics.
Hence we need to create jobs across the universe instead sticking too local requirements only. The hardest task is sourcing & creating a pool of competent, knowledgeable and certified- Trainers who are ahead of time and know the sentiments of the policy, people & press .Again the target group to whom training is to be imparted is unaware about the SWOT analysis of the industry as well as future growth prospects.
Photograhpy by Rinkan Das
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About the author:
Prof. Sanmaya Rath, Training Head, Black Panther Guards & Services Pvt.Ltd, Bhubaneswar
