India, with growing industrialization, is poised to touch double-digit growth rate.

The 11th Five Year Plan seeks to achieve a faster and inclusive growth.

Labour force of the country is an important component for the economic development.

Labour productivity of an Indian worker in US $ is 3.05 per worker per hour while in most of the developed economies , is more then US $ 30.

As per 61st round of NSSO survey, large number of workers (around 130 million out of 470 million working population) are living below the poverty line.

skill level and educational attainment of the workforce determines the productivity as well as the ability to adapt to the changing industrial environment.

A majority of Indian workforce does not possess marketable skills which is an impediment in getting decent employment and improving their economic condition.

As per 1999 –2000 National Sample Survey only 5% of the Indian labour force in the age group of 20-24 has received vocational training through formal institutes whereas the percentage in industrialized countries is much higher, varying between 60% and 96%.

175 million student enroll in class one every year, 96 million drop out upto class VII and 122 million by class X. Twenty million finish class XII & 152 million have no access to vocational training.

Around 33.67% of the males and around 33.94% of the females are in the age group of 15-34 as per 2001 census. India has therefore got the unique opportunity to complement what an ageing rest of the world needs most i.e. productive workers.

Only about 2.5 million vocational training seats are available in the country whereas about 12.8 million persons enter labour market every year.

large number of school drop outs do not have access to skill development for improving their employability.

The largest share of new jobs in India come from the unorganized sector that employs around 93 per cent (369 million) of the national workforce whose training needs are largely untouched by the training system while they contribute about 60% to GDP.

Participation in World skills

Challenges•Increase in skilled workforce from 5% ( 2.5 Million) at present to about 50% (25 million) comparable with the developed countries in order to fine tuning of skill training in accordance with needs of the industry. •Skill areas be increases to 2000 by year 2021.•Develop effective PPP models to meet the growing need of skilled manpower in emerging sectors.•Creation of huge infrastructure for skill training•Introduction of informal apprenticeship training.•Setting up of National Skill Development CouncilVisionTo make India, Skill Capital of the World within a specific time frame.

Hon’ble Minister of Finance during the budget speech 2005-06 made the following announcement:

“ To meet the demand for specific skills of a high order, a Public Private Partnership between Government and Industry is proposed to promote skills development programme under the name ‘Skill Development Initiative’….”.

• Vocational training infrastructure available in country cater to the training needs of only 2.55 m (1.05 m by DGE& and 1.5 m by other ministries & departments). All other Ministries/Departments provides training 1.5 million and DGE&T provides:

• 2.25 Lakh seats under Apprenticeship Training in 256 trades through 23800 industries

• 7.5 Lakh under Craftsmen Training Scheme in 110 trades through 6000 ITIs being upgraded in PPP mode.

• 0.25 under Advanced Vocational Training Scheme tailor made long/short term courses through ATI/ATI-EPIs.

• 0.5 Lakh under Women Training in diverse skills.

• In order to meet the demand for specific skills of a high order, Skill Development Initiatives (SDIS) Scheme was conceptualized and launched in July 2007 :

• To Provide Training to School leavers, Workers, ITI Graduates, etc.

• Testing & Certification of Skills acquired informally Capacity building in the areas of development of competency standards , curricula, learning material, assessment standards etc.

One million persons would be trained or their existing skills tested & certified over a period of five years and thereafter one million persons would be trained/tested every year.

Total 500 short term training courses on modular employable skills (MES) as per Industry / labour Market demands would be identified & course curriculum developed.

Process of identifying and development of course curriculum would continue in future on demand of Industry / labour Market.

Target Group

Sl No

Target Group Training Testing & Certification of Competencies

Skills acquisition

Skills up-gradation/ diversification

1 Worker √

√ √

2 Less educated/Out of school youth/unemployed/ previously child labour

√ √

3 ITI Graduates √ √

A trade committee identifies employable skills set in a sector based on division of work in labour market in consultation with Industry & develops course matrix & curricula.

NCVT reviews & approves curricula So far 340 courses of diverse sectors,

keeping in view the industry demand, have been developed and another 160 is in various stages of development.

Assessing body will draw the list of testing centres and details will be provided to respective State Director and RDAT

Assessing body will register the participants and collect the testing fee by IPO/DD through Testing centres/VTP

Nodal ITI may play role while drawing the testing centre by assessing body.

Here Nodal ITI may coordinate between Assessing body and VTP for proper & timely testing.

Training would be provided by Vocational Training Providers (VTP) fulfilling following criteria would be registered as VTP:

ITI s/ITCs affiliated to NCVTInstts. Approved by Councils under Central

Government like AICTE/MCI, NCHMCT, etc.Colleges / Instts. Affiliated to a university set up by a

Central /State Govt. recognized by UGC,Schools / Instts. Approved by SBSE/ BTE, Distance Education Instts / Councils,Instts. Approved International Councils i.e. ICAO,

DGCA, IATAInstts. Orgn. set up by Central/State Government

Training would be provided by Vocational Training Providers (VTP) fulfilling following criteria would be registered as VTP :

Company /Firm/ registered society/Trusts providing training under Apprentices Act 1961Orgn. registered in India, in existence for

three years, employing 100 employees, trained 1000 persons, under Central Govt. scheme

NOTE: A registered VTP can run off campus courses only within the districts in which the training centre has been registered Ref. Para 1.3.5 (v)

Training cost @Rs.15/-per person per hour will be reimbursed to VTP in respect of those successful persons who got the training from VTP approved by DGE&T.

VTP has to submit the bill for reimbursement to RDAT Mumbai in the prescribed format.

Reimbursable training cost will be adjusted from those VTPs who have been provided one time advance of Rs.3 -10 lacks

Each VTP has to keep the record for training fee deposited while admission and then refund of training fee those successfully completed the module.

While forwarding the list of successful participants to RDAT , assessing body will furnish the information for reimbursement of assessing fee.

RDAT will issue the cheques to assessing bodies for onward reimbursement to successful participants.

In process the role of Nodal ITI is important.

Nodal ITI and Assessing body needs to be developed good network so that testing fee may be reimbursed to successful participant.

Testing of skills of trainees by

independent assessing bodies who would not be involved in conduct of the training programme.

NCVT certificates to the successful

persons would be awarded.

Sl No Name of organization and Contact person Sectors

1 Confedration of Indian Industry (CII)Director & Head: Col Harmit Singh Sethi249-F,Udyog Vihar,Phase IV Sector -18 Gurgaon 122 015Ph:0124-4014060-67Fax:0124-4014083

Email:harmit.sethi@ciionline.org Adeep.singh@ciionline.org

All Sector/ All Trades

2 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry(FICCI)Additional Director:B P PantFederation House,Tansen MargNew Delhi 110 001Ph:011-23316121

Fax:011- 23721504/23320714Email:aioe@ficci.com

All Sector / All Trades

3 Indian Society for Training and Development(ISTD)Excutive Director:Col (Dr) D P DimriTraining House,B-41,Qutab Institutional Area,New Mehrauli Road,New Delhi 110 016Ph:011-26867710 / 26857157 /26519498 / 26519524 / 26862339Email:istdtrg@nic.in,istdtrg@airtelbroadband.in,ncm@istdtrg.org

All sectors

4 Construction Industry Development Council(CIDC)Director General:P R Swaroop801(8th floor)Hemkunt Chambers,89,Nehru Place, New Delhi 110 019Ph :011-26234770/26433709/2648992/26451766Fax:011-26451604/26234770Email:cidc@vsnl.com , cidcindia@yahoo.com

Construction

Training FeeSl No Course Fee Chargeable

1 Module having upto duration 90 Hrs

500 per module

2 Module having duration from 91 to 180 Hrs

1000 per module

3 Module having duration from 181 Hrs 270 Hrs

1500 per module

4 Module having duration from 281 to 270 Hrs.

2000 per module

Note: 1. Candidates belonging to SC/ST Category & Women will be given relaxation of 25 %in Fee.2. In order to motivate trainees to take program seriously,

training fee of all those trainees who successfully complete the training would be refunded to them

3. This refund will be at VTP level.

Assessment shall have two sections:

#Section A: (Theoretical/Viva)

Safety aspect Related theory & soft skills Identification of tool, equipment &

raw material #Section B: (Practical) Assessment of practical

competencies

# Section A 1.Question bank for theory will have 100

questions for each MES course module. 2.These are divided in to three levels: a) Simple (b) Moderate (c) Difficult 3.Questions are of following types: a)Short answer ( b) Multiple choice

(c)Matching # Section B 1.Question bank contains 10 exercises for

each MES course module.

42,000 persons have been trained/tested against a target of 30,000 for the quarter ending June 2008.

A total of 308 MES courses relevant to Industry / labour Market demands have been identified & course curriculum developed against a target of 500 to be developed during the project period of five years ending 2012.

More than 1200 VTPs have already been registeredProcess of identifying and development of course

curriculum would continue in future on demand of Industry / labour Market.

Response from the stakeholders is very encouraging.

Employability of the passed out person is quite satisfactory