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tracking mechanisms and empanelment of
training providers.
The outcomes of these skill training
programmes have been defined in terms
of placement achieved in wage and self–
employment.
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Every training programme and
training provider will be judged on the results—
in terms of the employment being procured by
the persons trained and the salaries being paid
for these jobs.
Making Skill Development an Integral Part of
all Government of India Schemes:
The govern-
ment is keen to ensure that skill development
become an integral part of all GoI schemes.
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For instance, a scheme to build roads and
highway should earmark a certain minimum
percentage of the funds to skill persons to use the
road (as drivers), maintain the road (as main-
tenance workers) etc. Ten per cent of Special
Central Assistance to Scheduled Caste Sub
Plan, 10 per cent Special Central Assistance to
Scheduled Tribes Sub Plan, 5 per cent of Border
Area Development Programme, 20 per cent of
funds under Building and Other Construction
Workers Welfare Cess, 10 per cent of allocation
under Integrated Action Plan for LWE districts
have been earmarked for skill development.
Creation of Additional Training Capacity
: To
ensure that there is sufficient skill development
capacity in the country, a number of steps are
being taken such as: (a) Determination of the
Capacity Gap, so that the shortfall in capac-
ity can be gauged and a plan for meeting this
shortfall can be formulated and implemented,
(b) Targeted approach to creation of Capacity,
for ensuring greater accessibility and equity, for
certain specific sectors and geographies where
training capacity is clearly inadequate, such skill
development needs of infrastructure sector, skill
development for LWE areas, north-eastern and
hilly states, skill development forwomen, persons
with disabilities, etc. (c) Opening the doors for
new training providers, by developing appropri-
ate accreditation norms for training providers.
International expertise:
The NSDA has
signed a Technical Assistance Agreement (TA)
with the Asian Development Bank, with the
objective to enhance the capacity of NSDA to
effectively implement its mandate of guiding
quality skills development initiatives across
Central Ministries, States, and the private sec-
tor. Similarly, an India–European Union Skill
Development Project has been signed. The
project is designed to impact on the capacity
development of the key government and the
private sector institutions and individuals as
well as strengthening the implementation of the
National Policy on Skill Development.
Source:
GoI, 2015, Programme Guidelines
DDU-GKY.
Conclusion
The current year is a watershed in skill
development and entrepreneurship. With
a slew of government strategies and policy
initiatives, the focus is on creating skill
building institutions that work to a set of
standards resulting in certification of train-
ees, the landscape of skill based employ-
ment is set for a significant change. The
perception is that NSDC, while launching
new schemes and enrolling new partners
has not been able to fulfil its mandate
through effective coordination and moni-
toring of results. With the government
launching a number of new schemes in
the recent past, the challenges of effective,
coordinated implementation magnify.
The concentration of skill development in
urban areas, lower enrolment of women,
low wage levels even after skill acquisi-
tion, lack of focus on quality in training,
rent seeking behaviour on the part of skill
providers, continuing skill gaps despite
training, lack of quality trainers, lack of
adequate arrangements for trainer training
and upgradation are some of the difficul-
ties that bedevil this important national
movement (Annexure 6.1).
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Unstarred question no 2012 in Rajya Sabha
answered on 6 August 2015.
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GoI, 2014, Initiatives, Achievements, Policies
and Roadmap for the Future, Ministry of Skill
Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and
Sports, Government of India.
