NEW DELHI: Clearly there is no walking the talk for the newly created skill development and entrepreneurship ministry. While development of skills may be a buzzword for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s policies, very few moves have taken place on the ground to get the new ministr going.
NSDC said it has signed an agreement with the MoHUPA for providing quality skill training, certification and placement to the urban poor for a sustainable livelihood.
“Through this agreement, NSDC will facilitate training of approximately 1 lakh urban poor in one year by engaging with its training partners and leveraging the existing training infrastructure as per terms and conditions of National Urban Livelihood Mission ( NULM),” it said.
The two parties will jointly monitor the progress of the training and placement of the urban poor.
The officers in the labour and MSME ministries whom ET Magazine interacted with say handing over all skill development work to one single ministry is unlikely to materialize in the near future. But Sonowal is confident that all skill development work currently being undertaken by various ministries will converge into his ministry in a phased manner.
Introducing a formal definition of skill development, integrating soft skills in each training programme and tracking of all candidates enrolled in such schemes through their Aadhaar number are some of the key recommendations of a high-powered panel set up to rationalise the multitude of skilling schemes run by the government.
The Modi government is set to launch a new skill development policy by March 2015 that would bridge..
The Modi government is set to launch a new skill development policy by March 2015 that would bridge the gap between educational institutions and the labour market, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship Sarbananda Sonowal said here on Wednesday.
Four lakh ITI students will get an SMS from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday cheering their choice of picking up vocational education as a sign the government is serious this time to correct the basic problem of lack of trained manpower to drive its ‘Make in India’ ambition.
Underlining skill development and improving employability of labour as his key priorities, newly appointed minister of state (independent charge) for labour Bandaru Dattatreya said that he will especially focus on the unorganised sector workers. In an interview with Surabhi, Dattatreya, who is the country’s fifth labour minister in a span of less than two years also defended the government’s recent slew of labour reforms and said the policies are not anti-labour.
Aviation secretary Ashok Lavasa has been transferred to the environment ministry as the new secretary, while V. Somasundaran will be the new aviation secretary, the government said in a statement on Thursday. Lavasa took charge of aviation in 2013. Somasundaran is currently additional chief secretary Kerala.
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday announced a set of secretary-level appointments, selecting 1979-batch Kerala cadre IAS officer V Somasundaran as the new aviation secretary and transferred current aviation secretary Ashok Lavasa to the environment ministry.
Former Indian Airlines chairman and managing director Sunil Arora, an IAS from Rajasthan cadre has meanwhile been appointed as secretary in the newly created Department of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship under ministry of skill development, entrepreneurship, youth affairs and Sports.
India stands at the cusp of a demographic dividend, and several people have expressed the urgent need to leverage this dividend to enable jumps in GDP growth. The formation of the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) signalled the high priority attached to skill development. The NSDM created three distinct structures, namely, the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development, the Skill Development Coordination Board at the Planning Commission and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The first two were subsequently shelved and replaced by the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA). The NSDC, however, was retained as an entity under the NSDM. Now, the NDA government has brought all skill development initiatives under one umbrella ministry, probably motivated by various governance and management issues.