K P Sharma
India is struggling to provide employment to youths and so is our state where unemployment is one of the big concerns. The scale of the skilling challenge that India faces, and the urgency involved, have been palpable for some time, but new official data put into cold numbers outlines the extent of the problem. Fewer than one in 10 adult Indians has had any form of vocational training, and even among those who have, the type of training is not the sort of formal skilling that employers seek – the majority had either acquired a hereditary skill or learned on the job. Just 2.2 per cent in all had received formal vocational training. In comparison, 75 per cent of the workforce in France,Germany and 80 percent among other developed countries, even among the BRICS countries, India lags behind – nearly half the Chinese workforce, for example, is skilled. Very few Indians get a Vocational and Technical trainings with which he or she can get the Job in the corporate world.
The problem is more acute in rural areas and for women. Without access to affordable and appropriate skills training, young people, particularly those leaving rural areas and small towns for big cities, will be stuck in low-wage, insecure jobs that will leave them in want or poverty.
The Rural young folks are getting ITI or diploma and even after training don’t get employment. In ITI still have Old TV trainings which is of no use today. With Multiple Skills council set up by the Central Govt we are seeing the Good ray of hope but on the ground line zero trainings happened just for the money and compliance and not for real creating the employbility. The Central and State Govts disconnect adds another worry and huge damage to this cause.
The Narendra Modi Government has made skills and jobs one of its focus areas from the beginning of its term. In July, the Prime Minister launched an ambitious mission to impart skills training to 40 crore people, by 2022, and the new Government has a dedicated Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
In Jammu Kashmir condition is even worst. We are not able to train the people and not able to bring the world class vocational training course.The major Problematic areas are :
* Skill centre infrastructure.* Traniers in the skill centres * Final product as good trained guy who is employable.* Govt skill mission not attracting Industry experts for better execution of policies. * Govt Body ineffective. JK need skill university and VC should be from Industry. We have seen that Haryana have set up the skill university and VC is from the Industry who can drive the vision into reality radically new path on skills. There remains multiple decision-making authorities on skills and little clarity about who exactly will do the work. Promises of corporate and foreign partnerships on skilling are pouring in, but how these mass skilling programmes will take off is unclear. Employers complain that job-seekers do not have the skills they look for; there is little evidence yet that curricula with these objectives in mind have been designed, or that new and affordable training institutes have been set up on a mass scale. Job creation has not kept pace with India’s demographic momentum, and that will in the coming days pose a problem for a skilled .
We should form the Advance skill council in J&K with two senior experts from the Industry and who have worked globally and locally with best states where skills mission is running successfully and drive the skilling and employability with one wagon and which can create the huge pond of skilled youths who can be absorbed in the Industry. We need a strong bridge between state and Industry .
(The author is a Vice-President Schneider electric and Industry to Make-in-India campaign)
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