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Empowerment through Skill Development
Dr. Girdhar J. Gyani
Nov 2010
Nov 2010
In India, skills development is recognized as a major task and a priority in India with approximately 10-12 million labour force entrants every year. Lack of skills development is regarded as a main impediment in sustaining the high growth of Indian industry.
With low educational and skills level, gainful employment or income generating activities are severely hit. Although people are able to avail education and training opportunities, the quality and relevance of the skills obtained are often a challenge. Therefore, Skills mismatch and limited training opportunities are common problems.
The Government of India has launched the Skills Development Initiative (SDI) to train 1 million persons on demand-driven vocational skills over the next 5 years and 1 million each year after that to support skills training, certification and upgrading in the unorganized sector. The approach is the implementation of Modular Employable Skills (MES) training implemented by Ministry of Labour and Employment/Directorate-General of Employment and Training, which offers flexibility to those who have limited education and cannot afford to be away from employment for long periods of time
With a continual GDP growth of around 9%, India will be bubbling with employment opportunities. It is noted that there will not be constraint of capital and technology but skilled manpower. ACMA indicates the requirement of an additional 25 million skilled manpower for automobile sector alone. The National Policy refers to 500 million are required to be trained by 2022.
Young India-Demographic Dividend
India is and will remain for some time one of the youngest countries in the world. A third of India's population was below 15 years of age in 2000 and close to 20 per cent were young people in the 15-24 age groups.
The population in the 15-24 age groups grew from around 175 million in 1995 to 190 million in 2000 and 210 million in 2005, increasing by an average of 3.1 million a year between 1995 and 2000 and 5 million between 2000 and 2005. In 2020, the average Indian will be only 29 years old, compared with 37 in China and the US, 45 in West Europe and 48 in Japan.
This trend is seen as significant on the grounds that what matters is not the size of the population, but its age structure.
Quality employment for the rising workforce will have to be provided outside agriculture. The numbers are quite staggering — the need is for around 6-8 million new, non-agricultural jobs or work opportunities every year for decades ahead. This will not happen simply because a lot of people happen to cross over into a working age group. It will require a strong growth impetus from rising demand and an education-and-training system that imparts the skills needed for non-agricultural work to young (and old) workers.
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s.stephen joseph
18 Jul 2011 (15:43:03)
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Respected Sir / Madam,
Subject: - Regarding the Financial aid for Computer Training
( Oracle Data Base & Java Trainings ).
We came to know that your office is providing excellent service for the welfare of rural youth by providing them skill development training programs on varies fields. Also we are training in Rural BPL Youths. (MoRD & SGSY).
We Rajseeli Rural Development Trust conducting various job oriented trainings for young youths & woman’s . Now we are applying for the Oracle Data Base & Java Programming training proposal. Kindly acknowledge.
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Thanking you,
Yours truly,
S.Stephen Joseph.
Executive Director.
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