Year End Review- Ministry of skill Development
MSDE has an enormous
skilling challenge at hand and in the year 2016 thrust was on skilling at
scale, speed and standards. Some of the key highlights are mentioned below:
1.
First-ever Indian Institute of
Skills: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the first-of-its-kind “Indian
Institute of Skills” in the country in Kanpur on December 19, 2016.
Conceptualized by the Prime Minister during his visit to Singapore’s Institute
of Technical Education, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship,
headed by Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, in partnership with the Institute of
Technical Education, Singapore, decided to open the institute inspired by the
Singapore model of training. The Institute would adopt various best practices
from the country. The MSDE has decided to have six such institutes across the country.
2.
Prime Minister also inaugurated
the KaushalPradarshini (Skill Exhibition) for the youth
of Uttar Pradesh at the Railway Grounds, Kanpur and launched an array of skill
development initiatives, including Pradhan MantriKaushalKendras (PMKKs) and
Drivers’ Training Institutes. There was also strategic partnership with various
industries that will train and employ approximate 4 Lakh youth over the next 3
years.
The Prime Minister had shown concern about the training of drivers
so to achieve his dream, the Ministry has decided to open 100 Driver Training
Institutes all across India soon. NSDC has signed a MoU with OLA cabs which
needs 1 lakh drivers.
3.
IndiaSkills 2016: “Skill
India” celebrated its first anniversary on 15thJuly, 2016. To mark
the day, the Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the
first edition of “IndiaSkills Competition” on the occasion of World Youth
Skills Day. IndiaSkills is a national competition steered by Ministry of Skill
Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC) to select the best talent who will lead India’s
participation at the biennial WorldSkills International Competition. The
upcoming WorldSkills International Competition is scheduled at Abu Dhabi in
2017. More than 4500 candidates competed in 80 regional rounds to win their way
to the IndiaSkills Competition 2016, which was held at PragatiMaidan on 16th
&17th July, 2016. The winners have qualified for the final
selection round for participating in WorldSkillsInternational Competition at
Abu Dhabi, 2017
4. Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY): Launched on July 15, 2015 by Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri
Narendra Modi, Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY) is the flagship
outcome-based skill training scheme of MSDE. It is also India’s largest skill
certification scheme with the objective to enable and mobilize a large number
of Indian youth to take up outcome-based skill training and become employable
and earn their livelihood. Owing to its successful first year of
implementation, the Union Cabinet has approved the scheme for another four
years (2016-2020) to impart skill training to 10 million youth of the country
with an outlay of Rs 12,000 crores. It is being implemented through the
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
A detailed status (as on 02.12.2016) of PMKVY (2015-16) is given
below.
PMKVY (2015-16) – Highlights – 2016
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Total No of Youth trained under PMKVY#
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Targets allocated under PMKVY 2 which
are under registration, enrollment and training*
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FY 2015-16
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FY 2016-17
till 25.12.16
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All India
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15,84,162
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4,06,032
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7,98,856
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#Refers
to combined numbers for Recognition of Prior Learning and Short term Fresh
training
*Refers to target allocated under Short term Fresh training only
*Refers to target allocated under Short term Fresh training only
In its current version, the scheme has four components: Short
Term Training, Recognition of Prior Learning, Special Projects, and State
Engagement.
5. Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasKendras:
The MSDE is working towards
the creation of PradhanMantriKaushal Kendra(s) (PMKKs) under
the “Skill India Mission” of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
As of December 9, 2016,
allocation for setting up of 432 PMKKs in 415 districts (320
Parliamentary Constituencies) has been done to 34 training providers across 26
States and 1 Union territory. The allocation of the remaining districts of
India will be completed by the end of the Financial Year 2016-17
So far, 44 PMKKs have been
established across 18 states and another 115 PMKKs are in the process of
setting up. The target is to deliver training to a minimum of 1 lakh
candidates annually.
A unique brand book has been
created and deployed for PMKK, which defines the quality of the centers prepared.
Similarly, effort is underway to standardize lab equipment and machinery
for labs under PMKVY 2.0. Standard lab guidelines have been designed for 10
labs. In phase 1 of the activity, guidelines will be developed for 20 labs by
December 2016.
6.
NAPS (National Apprentice
Promotion Scheme)
National Apprenticeship
Promotion Scheme (NAPS) is a new scheme of Government of India to promote
apprenticeship training and increase the engagement of apprentices from present
2.3 lakh to 50 lakh cumulatively by 2020. The scheme focuses on sharing of 25%
of prescribed stipend subject to a maximum of Rs. 1500/- per month per
apprentice to all apprentices with the employers. It was notified on August 19,
2016. Government supports Rs. 7500 for a maximum of 500 hours for basic
training.
The target under the
scheme is 5 lakh, 10 lakh, 15 lakh and 20 lakh apprentices respectively in
2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-2019 and 2019-20. The engagement of fresher apprentices
shall be 20% of total annual target. As on today, one lakh apprentices are
undergoing training under NAPS.
States may create a State Apprenticeship Cell and encourage
engagement of apprentices to the maximum of 10% of total strength of private
establishments and State Public Sectors. They may also encourage them to avail
the benefits of NAPS.
INITIATIVES TAKEN
· A web portal has been
launched on Apprenticeship Training. Accordingly, all the establishments have
been requested to register on the portal and declare the apprenticeship
vacancies.
· Out of 259 designated
trades, syllabi for 123 designated trades have been revamped.
· 17 Awareness
campaign/workshops were conducted in the first phase across different industry
clusters of the country in coordination with CII and FICCI.
· Workshops/Meetings are
being held regularly by all State Apprenticeship Advisers and six Regional
Directorates of Apprenticeship Training (RDATs) in their respective
State/Regions.
· Meeting with all
Chairman-cum-managing Directors of Central Public Sector Undertakings convened
to encourage them to take apprentices under NAPS.
7.
Directorate General of
Training (DGT), MSDE
Academic equivalence to
ITI course: DGT, MSDE and National
Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) under Ministry of Human Resource Development
signed an MoU on July 14, 2016 to put in place a system for
academic equivalence to ITI qualification and provide options to meet
aspirations of those candidates of ITI system who want to attain high academic
qualification in addition to their skills. This MoU also opens pathways for
ex-trainees of ITI, holding National Trade Certificate (NTC), to earn
secondary/senior secondary qualification. Under the MoU following arrangements
have been made
Dual System of Training:
Training in both classrooms (ITI) and in Industries: A Dual System of Training has been set up to enable industries to
partner with (Government & Private) Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
for conducting training programmes under high employability courses to fulfill
the needs of industries. The Curricula consists of Trade Theory
& foundation practicals which will be completed at the ITI with the
remaining portion of the practical training to be conducted in the concerned
industry/ organization. This helps in ITI–Industry linkage.
Space-based Distance
Learning Programme (SDLP) for MSDE: The
vocational training facilities in the country have grown substantially in the
last few years. There are around 2200 government & 10800 private ITIs
(Industrial Training Institutes), which is the biggest vocational training
infrastructure in the country. To address the requirements of capacity building
through education and training of ITIs, MSDE now plans to make use of space
technology for increasing the reach to thousands of ITIs spread across the country,
including remote and difficult areas.
Benefits of proposed Concept
The resource persons at
the Advanced Training Institutes (ATIs), will be able to deliver the lectures
to a large number of students located at various ITIs including remote
locations across the country, where SITs and ROTs installed. The interactions
between the lecture originating ATI and SITs are transmitted to all the SITs,
thus creating a virtual classroom. This will have a large positive impact on
the skill development initiative taken up by the Government of India and
significantly contribute towards National development.
Status of the Project
·
MOU signed with Development & Educational Communication Unit
(DECU), ISRO for technical support.
·
Technical Specifications drawn by ISRO.
·
Funds for the first phase approved and sanction orders under
issue.
·
RFP for purchase of equipments is being floated.
·
Letters issued to State Training Directors to identify one ITI
per district for installation of SITs.
International Collaborations
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)
has been collaborating with a number of countries in the area of skill
development and entrepreneurship. Joint Working Group meetings on active
collaborations were held with China, UK, Australia, and Germany. Over the last
one year, new MoUs have been signed with UAE and Qatar (on mutual recognition
of Qualifications); with France (for skill training in the Power sector); with
Switzerland (on sharing of best practices) and with Singapore (with NSDC as the
partner on the Indian side), to set up new centres for excellence.
With a view to ensure that Indians are equipped with the skills
to be employed not only in India, but also overseas, MSDE has benchmarked
standards of 82 job roles with UK standards and of 26 job roles with Indian
standards.
In July this year, MSDE signed anMoU with the Ministry of
External Affairs, to provide skills training opportunities for overseas
employment. Under this MoU, MSDE will establish India International Skill
Centres, which will train young Indians in internationally benchmarked
standards. Those who are trained in these centres will also be given a pre
departure orientation, language training and cultural orientation (supported by
MEA) to ensure that youth in India are well prepared to
take up employment overseas.
·
Major agreements were signed with PSUs including
CIL, NTPC, RECL, POWERGRID, SAIL, RINL, AAI, NALCO, DPE among others under this
initiative.
·
Major agreements were also signed with private
sector including JSW, Uber, JCB, Schneider, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Indo-US
Aviation Cooperation Program, etc. with at least 30 leading corporates to be
signed in the next couple of months.
·
Contributions of over Rs 80 Crores have been received from
both public and private sector companies to the National Skill Development Fund
(NSDF) to support over 60,000 youth through skill development activities.
·
Special focus has also been accorded to train wives
and families of jawans in Central Armed Police Forces (CRPF, CISF, SSB, ITBP,
etc.) in their commanding units.
·
Special focus has been accorded to
infrastructure-related projects (like ports, airports, roads, petroleum &
natural gas, MSME clusters, etc.) where private sector is mobilised to setup
PPP projects in skill development through umbrella MOUs between MSDE and
various central ministries.
·
Direct job linkages with private sector for hiring
skilled personnel through outreach activities (like Job Melas) and aggregator
platforms (like Uber, LinkedIn, Ola, etc.) are underway.
·
A single-window online IT system (Skills to Jobs
aggregator platform) has been developed with the assistance of World Bank to
channelize more CSR contributions through matching fund contributions.
All
these steps will help ensure that skills training translates into sustainable
livelihoods for India’s youth, making it an aspirational career choice for
India’s youth.
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