Role of SSCs in Skill Development in India

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Role of SSCs in Skill Development in India

• Sunita Sanghi
• Advisor
• Planning Commission

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Vision

• Creation of 500 million skilled manpower by 2022
• Inclusive skill development irrespective of any
  divide-Gender, Rural / Urban, Organised /
  Unorganised Industry, Traditional Home based
  /contemporary work place based

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Basic Facts

• Half the Children studying till age of 14 drop
  out
• More than 86 of people above age of 15 seek jobs
• Labour force participation rate reaches 100in
  age group 24-29
• Labour force educational profile- illiterate 39,
  primary school 25 and Higher level 36

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Skill Acquisition in India

• Formal Structure
• - Vocational education
• - Vocational training
• Informal Structure
• - self learning
• - No Certification
• Current training Capacity app.3.5 million
• Labour force entering market 9 million per year
  on pro-rata basis leaving huge gap

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Need for Skill Development

• Only 5 of the existing workforce trained and
  more than 80 are without any formal training
• skill gap in terms of quality and quantity
• requiring
• Identification of skill gaps
• Improvement in employability to convert skill
  based work into decent wages
• Enhancement in training facilities
• Alignment of the skill set with market
  requirement
• Facilitating both wage and self employment
• training for enhancement/ upgradation of skills
• Exact skill sets and bouquets of skills to be
  identified by expert groups
• Sectoral councils particularly in identified high
  growth sectors

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Initiatives so far

• Skill development through Public private
  partnership
• Corporate hiring skilled labour from outside, in
  house training, industrial associations,
  corporate and academic institution tie up etc.
• Coordinated action on Skill Development for
  creation of bankable and fungible skills,
  inclusivity, utilisation of existing
  infrastructure, facilitating upward mobility etc.

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Role of SSC

• Partnership organisations for benefit of the
  sector
• In India, SSCs are to be constituted by National
  Skill Development Corporation, a non-profit
  company with the aim of
• Increased industry participation to promote
  quality workforce
• Industry responsive skill development
• Reduce barriers to labour mobility
• Enhanced ability of industry to recruit and
  retain workers
• Enhanced productivity of sector's workforce

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Activities for achieving the Aim

• Identification of skill development needs
• Assessing demand supply gap
• Development of sector skill development plan and
  maintaining skill inventory
• Determining skills / competencies standards and
  qualifications
• Developing training packages reflecting industry
  needs
• Standardization of affiliation and accreditation
  process
• Skills development tools, including e-learning
• Sector specific labour market information system
• Targeted recruitment and skills development
  initiatives to increase labour force
  participation and integration of
  under-represented groups

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Outcomes

• Identification of industry / sector specific
  needs
• Preparation of inventory of skills
• Facilitating placement
• Guiding entrepreneurship and self employment
• Arranging training of trainers
• Determining skill competency standard and
  qualification criteria

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Managing SSC

• Issues requiring attention
• Structure of SSC
• - Independent body under PPP mode
• Funding pattern government, industry
• Operational

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