Mr. R.V. Kanoria, Senior Vice President FICCI and Managing Director, Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited, today underlined the need for a policy framework that includes an awareness campaign and an incentivized scheme for facilitating development of institutions for imparting vocational education.
Speaking at FICCI’s Global Skills Summit here today, Mr. Kanoria said the other elements of a comprehensive skill development strategy include a nationwide certifying mechanism that measures and grades different skills, widespread and coordinated and accessible delivery infrastructure, suitable faculty to impart skills for improving the job prospects and incomes of the trainees, an industrial base to stimulate and sustain demand for certified skilled manpower, creation of differential wages tilted in favour of certified skilled technicians and development of appropriate curricula. Above all, it is imperative for society to legitimise vocational education and training as an equally attractive alternative to conventional degree-based education.
Mr. R.C.M. Reddy, Chairman, FICCI Skills Development Forum and Managing Director, IL&FS Education, stated that there is a dire need for convergence between various government and the private organizations to make the skill development agenda a success. He said FICCI is acting as a skill development aggregator by bringing together policy, industry initiatives and international collaborations.
Mr Abhaya Agarwal, Executive Director & Leader PPP, Ernst & Young, India, gave the theme presentation on “Skills development: Developing Strategic and Implementation Framework”. He focused on different aspects related to global skill mismatch, existing framework in India, the global scenario with case studies from key countries and strategies for enhancing skill delivery in India.
Organizations in Japan, India, US, Brazil and Australia face the highest difficulty in filling up jobs with skilled workers. With the global average of about 34 per cent, the number of organizations facing this problem in India has increased to 67 per cent in 2011 from 16 per cent in 2010.
There are 17 central ministries along with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and State Governments who develop and provide skill development programmes specific to their respective sectors. Although the Ministry of Labour & Employment is the nodal agency for development of such schemes, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation develop their own program and implement them. The efforts of the private sector in India are primarily self driven or supported by government agencies and NSDC.
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