Government
has launched a National Skill Development Mission consisting of following three
institutions:
Prime Minister’s
National Council on Skill Development-under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister, for policy direction and review of
spectrum of skill development efforts in country.
National Skill
Development Coordination Board-under the chairmanship of Dy. Chairman Planning
Commission to enumerate strategies to implement the decisions of PM’s council.
National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC), a non-profit company under the Companies Act,
1956. The corporation is being funded by trust “National Skill Development
Fund” to which the Government has contributed a sum of Rs.995.10 crores. The
corporation is expected to mobilize about Rs.15, 000 crores from other
governments, public sector entities, private sector, bilateral and multilateral
sources. The corporation is expected to meet the skill training requirements of
the labour market including that of unorganized sector.
National
Policy on Skill Development (NPSD) approved by the Government has set a target
for skilling 500 million persons by the year 2022. Concerned central Ministries
will involve respective departments of state Governments and other stake
holders to achieve the target. The details of target
for different Ministries/Departments is at Annex-I. MoL&E
would train 100 million and the same is planned to be achieved through the
following schemes:
Name of the Scheme Target
Craftsmen Training
Scheme 29.4 mn
Skill Development
Centres 57.2 mn
Apprenticeship Training
Scheme 05.4 mn
Skill Development
Initiatives
through MES 11.0 mn
DGE&T field
institutes 0.5 mn
Total
103.5 mn
NOTE: Distribution amongst ministries/Departments has
been kept higher that 500 millions.
The objective of NSDC is
to fulfill the growing need for skilled manpower in the country, mainly by
fostering private sector initiatives in skill development.
The salient features of
NSDC are:
1.
Upgrade skills of work force
through significant industry involvement especially for underprivileged
sections of society and backward regions of the country.
2.
Enhance, support and coordinate
private sector initiatives for skill development through Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) models.
3.
Prioritize initiatives that can
have a multiplier or catalytic effect.
NSDC has a target of skilling / upskilling 150 mn people by the
year 2022 and so far 3 proposals have been cleared to train
10,39,000 persons in next 10 years.
National Skill Development Fund NSDF (Trust) has
allocated Rs.200 Crores to NSDC during FY 2009-10. NSDC has, so far released Rs
13.05 crores for
funding of
following three proposals. During
financial year 2009-10, a sum of Rs 7.15 crore was
released. Rs 3.69 crores was released to Gems & Jewellery
Export Promotion Council / Indian Institute of Gems & Jewellery,
Jaipur, Rajasthan and Rs. 3.46 crore
was released to BASIX Academy for
Building Life Long Employability Limited
a company having Pan-India
presence.
During the
current financial year 2010-11, Rs.5.90 Crore has
been released to Gram Tarang Employability Training
Services Private Limited, Orissa. NSDC does
not release funds to State governments.
The objective of NSDC is to skill/ upskill
150 million people in India
including persons from rural areas by the year 2022, mainly by fostering
private sector initiatives in skill development programmes and providing
viability gap funding. NSDC would cover skills from the organized as well as
from the un-organized sector.
NSDC will play a significant enabling role in some of essential
support services like curriculum, faculty and their training, standards and
quality assurance, technology platforms, student placement mechanisms and
setting up standards and accreditation systems in partnership with industry
associations. All these with participation of industry would improve quality of
human resources.
The Minister of State for Labour and
Employment Shri Harish Rawat gave this information in reply to a question in
the Lok Sabha today.
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