Developing skills

By
Daily Excelsior
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Sir,
This refers to the news item ‘95% of workers in India donot possess formal skills:Report’                  ( DE, June 21, 2016).It is shocking that as many as 95 percent of our country’s labour force donot possess formal vocational skills according to the global study conducted by City and Guilds Group.India,being the second largest populated country in the world,has a massive work force which can prove to be a great strength if gainfully employed.This force needs to be imparted required set of skills to enhance their confidence and employability particularly when the world has been reduced to a global family in the present scenario.We have a large number of postgraduates,graduates and school dropouts who lack requisite skills such as communication skills,academic skills,technical skills etc which the companies look for at the time of recruitment.Therefore, it is imperative that suitable measures are taken to create awareness in the masses and the educated youth about various skill development programmes such as Digital India,Start-up India,Skill India etc.available to them so that they can avail of the opportunities to acquire and hone their skills to enable them to work anywhere across the world in MNCs and other companies including India and abroad.In this respect,the Labour Ministry has an important role to play.Short term basic and advanced free courses and workshops aimed at upgradation of required skills can be organised at Block,Tehsil and District level to take the skill development programme to every household and person including housewives,youngsters to enhance their skills and improve their standard of living because the better skill a worker has,the better and more decent jobs he/she will get and better his life will be.Moreover,various Departments need to work in synergy to inculcate various skills of global standards in the workers,in view of the globalized economy to enable them to get decent jobs at national and international level.
Yours etc…
Ashok Sharma ,
Housing Colony, Udhampur.

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