Introduction to Skill Development Mission 2014
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The National Skill Development Mission was launched in 2015 to provide a strong framework for skill development efforts across India and train 300 million people by 2022. It involves 20 central ministries and oversees over 40 skill development schemes and programs. A National Skill Development Fund was also created with an initial corpus of nearly 1000 crore rupees to support skill training. The Mission aims to create demand-driven, outcome-based training and improve infrastructure, convergence of efforts, trainer availability, overseas employment opportunities, sustainable livelihoods, and use of public infrastructure for skills training.
Introduction to Skill Development Mission 2014
- 2. The National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 15th July, 2015 on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day to provide a strong institutional framework to implement and scale up skill development efforts across the country and to train a minimum of 300 million skilled people by the year 2022.
- 4. Under the Mission, 20 Central Ministries/Departments including Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship are involved in the implementation of more than 40 schemes/programmes on Skill Development. The implementation of skilling activities under the Mission will be as per the budget provisions of various schemes under their respective heads of account. Further, the National Skill Development Fund has been set up by the Government of India with an initial corpus of Rs. 995.10 crore for skill development in the country.
- 6. Institutional Training • Demand driven outcome based trainings in high priority areas. To change people’s perceptions about vocational training and make skilldevelopment aspirational with opportunities for long-term career progression. Infrastructure • High quality skill development in infrastructure sector. To build capacity and ensure high quality skill development in infrastructure including construction sector to increase productivity of workers in this sector through an emphasis on on- site training. • To match projected requirement of additional 31 million workers to work in construction sector over the next five years. • • To provide existing workers in this sector the opportunity to have long-term sustainable livelihoods through RPL and up-skilling.
- 7. Convergence • To ensure convergence and co-ordination of skill development efforts across • multiple stakeholders in the skill landscape of the country: central and state • Ministries/Departments, private training providers, assessment agencies, industry • bodies, and workers. Trainers • Improve quality and availability of trainers and training institutes. • • To meet trainer’s training requirement in each sector and geographical region across India. • To ensure adequate availability of trainers in the skills space. • To provide trainers with long-term career progression pathways.
- 8. Overseas employment • To ensure that youth in India are trained at the highest global standards, in order to enable them to access employment opportunities abroad. • • To provide information about employment opportunities abroad and enable aspirants to access them. • • To ensure international mobility of skilled workers in the country. Sustainable Livelihood • To empower trainees by assisting them to maximize the potential of skill training by providing them a pathway to access long-term sustainable livelihoods.
- 9. Leveraging Public Infrastructure • To optimize the usage of existing public infrastructure to scale up skilldevelopment efforts across India.
- 12. To achieve the objective of Skill India Mission, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) are running various schemes/programs to impart skilling to the youth through long term and short term training. The Ministry is providing long term training through Industrial Training Institutes. Under the Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS), 13 new courses have been introduced in the National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs)
- 13. Courses 1. Soil Testing and Crop Technician 2. Internet of Things (Smart Agriculture) 3. Internet of Things (Smart Healthcare ) 4. Internet of Things (Smart City) 5. Smartphone Technician Cum App Tester 6. Geo Informatics Assistant 7. Aeronautical Structure and Equipment Fitter 8. Additive Manufacturing Technician (3D Printing) 9. Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)/Drone Pilot 10. Electrician Power Distribution 11. Technician Mechatronics 12. Solar Technician (Electrical) 13. Fireman List of new courses introduced under the Craftsmen Training Schem
- 14. Objectives of the National Skill Development Mission •To create an end to end implementation framework for skill development, which provides opportunities for self-employment. •To support weaker sections of society through focused outreach programmes and targeted skill development activities. •To establish standards for skill training throughout the country by creating a quality assurance framework for trainers. •To build capacity for skill development in unorganized sectors such as the construction sector as there are very few opportunities are provided for skill training. •To develop a network for quality trainers in skill development by establishing high-quality teacher training institutions. •To leverage existing public infrastructure and industry facilities for scaling up skill training and capacity building efforts. •To propagate the value of skilling among youth, by creating social awareness on the value of skill training.
- 15. Create an end-to-end implementation framework for skill development, which provides opportunities for life-long learning. This includes: incorporation of skilling in the school curriculum, providing opportunities for quality long and short-term skill training, by providing gainful employment and ensuring career progression that meets the aspirations of trainees.
- 16. To align employer/industry demand and workforce productivity with trainees’ aspirations for sustainable livelihoods, by creating a framework for outcome focused training.
- 17. To build capacity for skill development in critical un-organized sectors (such as the construction sector, where there few opportunities for skill training) and provide pathways for re-skilling and up-skilling workers in these identified sectors, to enable them to transition into formal sector employment.
- 18. Establish and enforce cross-sectoral, nationally and internationally acceptable standards for skill training in the country by creating a sound quality assurance framework for skilling, applicable to all Ministries, States and private training providers.
- 19. Ensure sufficient, high quality options for long- term skilling, benchmarked to internationally acceptable qualification standards, which will ultimately contribute to the creation of a highly skilled workforce.
- 21. Institutional Mechanisms There will be a National Skill Development Mission at the Centre to steer, drive and execute the Mission’s objectives. Key institutional mechanisms for achieving the objectives of the Mission have been divided into three tiers. Governing Council • Chair- Prime minister Steering Committee Chair: Minister, MSDE Mission Directorate (Executive Committee) Chair: Secretary, MSDE
- 22. INSTITUTIONAL MECHANICS National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) Directorate General of Training (DGT) State Skill Development Missions(SSDM)
- 23. Nandra, I.S. (2016). Educational Policy and Planning in Contemporary India. Twenty-first Century Publications, Patiala National Skill Development Missionhttps://www.msde.gov.in › sites › default › files