Skill Gap: a real challenge for "Make in India"

Initiatives by NDA government are commendable and definitely would impact Indian GDP positively in long term.

Today we are more concerned about unemployment in Indian which is becoming inexplicable for us. Though lots of new investment proposals have been singed with foreign countries but nobody knows, how long it will take to materialize into system ? Also some data shows 1.9% decline in core sector. So all these make condition much muddiness and there is nothing clear move is visible to eradicate unemployment.

I strongly agree with the industry experts who are claiming that employment problem in India cannot be addressed quickly. So before attacking directly to unemployment we should go behind to understand the issues responsible for increasing unemployment. Indian workforce is under the minimum level of skill set required for a job. Analytics shows every year 14 lakh students become engineer but out of those only 2 lakh are employable. Now these 12 lakh engineers have skill gap which is mismatch with the industry requirment. Further they need training to scale up their skill set which incurred lots time and money.

It needs lots of intellectual and material infrastructure required to support a big lot of young people. We started lot many ITI’s, technical diploma schools and colleges but again the infrastructure and level of teaching skills is worse than ever, neither institutes concern about this nor students. Growing absenteeism in these institutes raising questions of skill gap leading to unemployable resource in future. Global competition and opened economies welcomes the Global quality standards for Indian manufacturing sector that requires serious attention towards it.

CII have taken initiatives to develop such institutes where they started instructed training. They also understand the industry need and they incorporate the modules. They offered different courses like full time degree courses, part time on the job training and short or weekly diploma & certificate courses.

Slowly some large business houses also start investing into skill development programs for their own workforce and poor people as well. They get support from ministries under skill development scheme for each student on the basis of some conditions. These initiatives are good for the workforce it would reduce unemployment rate in India. This track of skill set improvement should be assess by agencies so that we could evaluate their skill level time to time also we should have a action plan for future to make it a large campaign and lastly we should find out challenges in this campaign so that we could design corrective measures jointly. (Corporate and Government bodies)

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