Manthan topic : boosting skill set

ितज

AdityaSingh

Deepak Yadav

AshutoshThakur

ParulBhide

ShreyaSingh

MAKING THE UNCONSCIOUS PROCESS CONSCIOUS

Why must we prioritize Youth?

• A successful insertion in the labour market at the beginning of one’s career has a profound influence on later working life, while it can be difficult to catch up after an initial failure.

• High youth unemployment and under-employment have negative economic and social effects not only for the individuals concerned, but also for societies, especially when discouragement and exclusion boils over into social unrest.

• Equipping youth with skills relevant to the labour market is critical to their success in the labour market and is a key responsibility of the education system

• Active labour market programmes, job-search assistance and even learnerships and skills programmes for low-skilled youth, can make a difference in facilitating the transition to employment for young jobseekers.

• Lastly India has the largest army of youth

Why is investing in youth a policy priority? Skills are crucial for global prosperity

Models

Vocational Schools•Promote vocational

institutes at block and district level •5000 govt•50,000 private

•Conduct exams for every skill as for drivers licenses

•Certify approved training centres, e.g. BPO

•Provide scholarships & incentives for trainees

Computer-based learning is twice as fast @ half the cost

• Multimedia• Interactive• Immediate Feedback• Self-paced learning• Eliminates need for

trained teachers• Responds rapidly to

changing skill needs• Uniform testing

Computerized Vocational Training•Establish 1 lakh CVT

Institutes like internet cafes•50,000 in private sector•50,000 training centres at

engineering and arts colleges, ITIs, polytechs, high schools, NGOs, etc.

•Partnership with industry to develop multimedia training software

•Provide training to a minumum of 4 million students per annum

Policies to address youth unemployment must be integrated with other Strategies

Tackling the rise in youth unemployment since the start of the Great Recession

Policies to promote growth are vital for reducing youth

unemployment and inactivity

Spreading the rewards from education

Vocational training and its role in

supporting school-to-work transitions

The need to reduce the skills mismatch

Set institutions to support the creation of productive jobs for

youth

Addressing informality

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CVT Action Plan

1. Delivery CVT through all state-owned engineering colleges, ITIs, Polytechnics, liberal arts colleges, high schools, other institutions.

2. Provide financial assistance/ incentives under Central Government self-employment schemes to promote private training institutes.

3. Encourage financial institutions to provide loans to entrepreneurs.

4. Negotiate with computer software companies to develop a wide range of vocational training courses.

5. Recognized institutional authorities to certify course contents.

6. Finance bulk purchase of approved training software with 50% subsidy to minimize the cost of training.

7. Train entrepreneurs to set up/manage private institutes.

8. Provide scholarships to low income youth to cover training fees.

•Earn Rs 20,000 per acre (irrigated) from 3rd yr•Establish 2500 oil expeller units•Produce 10 MT biodiesel valued at Rs 20,000 cr•Create 5 million jobs

Bio-diesel from Jatropa

•India’s marine & inland fisheries employ 6M•1/3rd of India’s marine fishery potential untappedFisheries

•India is largest and lowest cost producer•70M dairy farmers•Cooperatives provide employment for 11M families •Potential for 42M jobs

Dairy

•Labour content 6 times cereals•Generates 10-30 times earning / unit area•Filling India’s nutritional gap requires 40% growth•Add 4M ha horticulture to raise production 40%•Generate 8 million jobs

Horticulture

Emerging Employment Sectors

• India is 3rd largest producer of cotton• Export demand projected to triple by 2010• 12 million additional jobs in textile industry

Cotton & Textile Industry

• 100 Million rely on forests for main source of livelihood, including half of India’s 70M tribals

• Objective to raise forest cover 50% in 10 ys• Introduce corporate contract farming with bonded performance

guarantees & assured employment for local population

Forestry, Herbs, Medicinal Plants

• Improve storage & processing to reduce Rs 70,000 crores in crop losses• Global share of processed food exports is rising • India processes only 2% fruits & vegetables vs. Thailand 30%, Brazil 70%,

Philippines & Malaysia 78-80%) • Industry directly employs 1.6M

Food Processing

• Cultivate energy plantations -- casuarina, bamboo, prosopis on rain-fed & irrigated lands

• Power plants 6-25 MW cost Rs 3 cr per MW • Cost/unit Rs 2.50 on biomass at Rs 800 per ton• Develop 10 million ha of energy plantation • Establish 4000 units, 40,000 MW• Reduce transmission losses

Biomass Power Generation

Bibliography

• International Center for Peace & Development, USA

• Annual Labour Law conference

• International labour organisation report.

• http://indiancag.org for official logo .