Conference of State Secretaries

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• Conference of State Secretaries
• on
• Skill Development Bridging Skills Deficit
  Promoting Employability
• 26 September 2008, PHD House, New Delhi

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Collective effort in skills delivery

• Goal to create 500 million certified and skill
  technicians by 2022
• Invest adequately in their education and
  employability
• As envisaged in the 11th Plan
• Impart relevant skills to 10 million people every
  year ,
• Create 70 million new jobs and gain industry
  support for the same.
• Recognizing skills needs in the context of
  changing scenario,
• Exploring possibilities need for PPP and
  cooperation in the area of skills development,
• Addressing employability issues imperative for
  inclusive growth,
• Focus on quality and standardization and also
  quality of faculty/trainers/instructors.

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Actual state of the Art Scenario

• India has the largest population of young people
  in the world.
• 400 plus million work-force,
• 65 between the age group of 15-29,(youngest
  country)
• Approx. 2 of them received any formal vocational
  training, (against 96 Korea 75 Germany, 68 UK
  and 80 in Japan)
• ITIs run courses only for 8th standard pass and
  above,
• Between class 1 - 8th, about 50 students drop
  out.

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• Issues to be Addresses urgently
• Acute shortage of Skill Development Institutes
• 80 people joining work-places without any formal
  training
• Dis-connect between skills provided and skills
  required by the industry
• Outdated training modules unable to capture the
  dynamics of the industry.
• Revision of course curricula lags behind the
  needs of the industry
• Outdated and inadequate machineries, tools and
  technology.
• Skill demands of the service, as well as the
  organized sector remain largely unmet.
• number and type of courses available are quite
  inadequate
• Severe shortage of trained instructors combined
  with low instructor training capacity in the
  country
• The unsatisfactory employability of trainees
  because of the poor quality of training.
  
  Contd

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Contd

• The present seating capacity of ITIs is 7.5
  lakhs,
• Has to be increased to 10 lakh by running an
  additional shift in the existing ITIs, wherever
  possible.
• Recognising this fact, the Prime Minister has
  himself emphasized on the Key Governance
  Principals

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Key Governance Principles

• Designing programmes for making skills bankable
• Enabling Individuals to convert their knowledge
  and skills, through Testing and Certification
  into higher diplomas and degrees,
• Promote multiple models of delivery that can
  respond to the differing situations in various
  states,
• Certification system to be instituted by the
  Central and State Governments for certifying the
  skills of trainees graduating from a variety of
  public and private institutions.
• Testing of the skills of trainees by independent
  assessing bodies be encouraged.

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Institutional Arrangements for Coordinated Action

• National Council for Skill Development - chaired
  by the PM, to review and focus on policy
  directions,
• National Skill Development Coordination Board
  coordinated by the Planning Commission to
• combine public and private prongs of action,
• ensure that govt. agencies intensify action in
  areas like
• vocational education,
• technical training through industrial training
  institutes, and
• through promotion of public-private
  partnerships,
• National Skill Development Corporations a
  non-profit company catalyzed by the Ministry of
  Finance to
• promote skill development in the private sector.
  

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Points for Discussion

• State-wise implementation agenda and action plan
  for skill development in the 11th Plan
• State-wise policy framework and institutional
  arrangements for
• Coordinated action,
• Facilitating multiple modes of delivery,
• Promoting PPP for skill development,
• ITIs up-gradation
• Modular Employable Skills Scheme and
• Promoting private investment in skill development
• Revamping ITIs in the States
• Preparedness of States to transfer policy
  initiatives into practice and challenges in this
  task
• Best Practices and PPP success stories - sharing
  experiences in skill development.
• Implementation of the PMs recent suggestion to
  the Chief Ministers of all the states.

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Thank You