Re: [MTC Global] Govt abandons goal of training 500 million people in new skills by 2022

7th June, 2017

Kiran Paranjpe has hit the nail on the head. 

Why are we limiting skills & skilling to manufacturing & production of goods ? Thats all history, man. Automation set into manufacturing 2 decades ago & now AI & advanced automation need a much higher level of skillets along with qualifications  That will be too much for our workforce & unemployed who do not posses the first level automation skills.

Manufacturing revolution is replaced by Information revolution. Knowledge based economy is resplendent in all its entirety. 

In MTC G, we have been shouting on rooftops for over 2 years about the onset of information age, digital economy & technological revolution. Future management must focus on effective management of these trends

per se. 

A deeper understanding of what a skill is also needed. Skill is not only a technique or tool to do anything faster and better; its also about the theoretical knowledge, upskilling, resklling & the applications thereof.  Attitude is another major issue .  

Plethora of skills are required in areas including healthcare, old age care, energy management. climate control, agro based, waste management., teaching — many more need to be addressed. Most of the products of higher educational institutions & colleges do not have these skills. It is unfair. And they are not are into any of the current jobs. 

Situation calls for a close coordination & amazing team work from various stakeholders , both in state & centre, to employ the youth of India - gainfully !!!!

Who will bell the cat ? Sooner the better. 

regards

Prof Ramesh Vemuganti.

On 07-Jun-2017, at 7:38 PM, kiran paranjpe <kdparanjpe@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Sir, I think, skilling has to be demand based. Skilling is strongly connected with
employment. Like everything else, it is the market that adjusts supply to the demand. It
is no use trying to set up skill centers for skills where the demand is absent. For eg,
if the no of turners produced by the skill centers is large then the movement of engg
industry into automation will render such trained turners redundant. Over time they may
even lose their turning skills. Such a drain of skilled manpower is a total waste.

If goods have to be made in India, they have to be made cheap in order to face
competition. This means that automation is unavoidable in manufacturing.The readiness to
deal with high automation would call for very different skill sets. However, there are
certain sectors where people based services hold importance. For eg, Homebased health
care require caregiver to patient contact . Here, there is a shortage of skilled people.
Maintenance of infrastructure (Road, water supply, gas, sewerage, railways) and its
renewal, energy sector( solar based) will require a very large number of people.
Education sector also needs large number of people. Here skilling people will be
meaningful due to the very large demand.

Nowadays, hospitals and doctors go in for testing and lab reports, this is another area
for skill development.
I wonder, why the targets are being scaled down. Is is because the skilling focus is
primarily manufacturing based?
Best Regards,
K.Paranjpe



On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:04:47 +0530 "Dr. S. S. Dey" wrote
>New Delhi: The government has abandoned its goal of training 500 million people in new
skills by 2022, in a clear shift in strategy.Skill development ministry officials, at a
press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, also refused to spell out a new number that the
Union government and its 22 departments and ministries will chase."We don't want to chase
any number. Whether it is 150 million by the National Skill Development Corporation
(NSDC) and 350 million by ministries—we are delinking it, not attaching any number," said
Rajesh Aggarwal, director-general of training and a joint secretary in the skills
ministry.Skill development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy agreed."It will be demand driven
than supply driven," he said.Though the ministry did not give a reason for shifting focus
and delinking numbers from the skills mission, over the years, skill training targets
have been missed.
Between 2011 and 2015, the Union government missed the skill training target in three out
of four years, barring 2013-14.In 2014-15, the first year of the National Democratic
Alliance government, all the departments, including NSDC, trained around 7.5 million
people against a target of 10.5 million, as per official data.In the next two years—2015-
16 and 2016-17—they trained 11.7 million people.The 500 million number formed the premise
on which the Union government set up different bodies such as NSDC, National Skill
Development Agency, Skill Development Fund, and made a concerted move to make the skill
development sector for-profit in India as against the not-for profit nature of the
education sector.Besides, NSDC was given a corpus to hand out soft loans to training
providers to achieve certain training targets.Some of NSDC's initial loans have turned
non-performing assets, Mint reported on 26 May.On Tuesday, Rudy said the government is
focusing on "improving the quality" of skill training in India."It is a path that needs
to be tread carefully as it involves the future of our youth," he said.He said the
ministry is now keeping a close eye on private skill training providers working on a
franchise model and strengthening the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) to supply
efficient workers to industries.Mayank Kumar, managing director of UpGrad, an online
venture focusing on reskilling of professionals, said the numbers should not be delinked
from the target as it may lead to the overall mission lacking a structural approach."The
government can answer better but it may be because they want to decouple skill training
from jobs," Kumar added.Rudy categorically said his ministry is not focusing on giving
jobs but imparting training to make people employable. But he would not give numbers on
how many of the 11.7 million trained in the past two years are really in jobs.Skills
secretary K.P. Krishnan said vocational education is "part of the concurrent list of the
Constitution... which means the states have to primarily drive this mandate, along with
centre's support".He said an amendment to the Apprentice Act has widened the scope of
people who can get trained on the shop floor, which he added would be the best form of
training for lifelong employability.Source: Live MintDr. S.S. Dey



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