Skill Development in India: Not Commensurate to the Required Growth India is one of the youngest countries in the world where more than 65 % of its population is below 35 years of age while in most other developed societies proportion of young population is decreasing. In this backdrop, many jobs from the developed world are expected to be outsourced to developing and relatively young countries like India. This is often referred as Demographic Dividend. However, the problem with Indian workforce is that majority of them is unskilled while the most jobs in developed world require skilled labour. However, things are not going as was desired.Though National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) was created in 2013 to consolidate efforts in this sphere, it mainly has a coordination role, lacks any effective powers and remains significantly under-resourced. Training infrastructure and capacity is another challenge. It is estimated that various publicly funded organizations produce 3.5 million trained personnel per annum against the 12.8 million new entrants into the workforce each year. Thus a domestic skill development policy needs to be overhauled. The institutional structure needs simplification with greater investment in training infrastructure and an emphasis on supporting a casual labour force. There is also a needto ensure participation of private sector in the training and skill development by virtue of a suitable incentive policy. Apart from this, regular education is also required to be dovetailed with the industry requirement. In the light of highly specialized nature of jobs which would be created in future, it is required that government have to give the top most priority to ensure the more inclusive growth in future.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:38:48 +0000
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