New Delhi : Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) must “pull up its socks” to understand the ground reality in the skilling ecosystem days after chairman S Ramadorai resigned.
Rudy, the Minister of State (independent charge), Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, said the sectoral skill councils will have to improve and “fall in line” to become aggregators for jobs in the market and connect with the industry to meet its skilling needs.
Addressing a gathering of NSDC partners here, the minister said: “NSDC has to pull up its socks because most of the people who have come to NSDC or have worked with NSDC… need intensive field application. They should be sent to villages to understand the standards which are being adopted by the skilling ecosystem.”
Rudy further said the sector skills councils will have to improve.
“This monopoly will not do. You have to fall in line. The sector skill councils have to pull up their socks. This cannot be how they are working. You should be the aggregator for jobs in the market, you are supposed to be the industry connect,” he said.
Tata veteran S Ramadorai recently resigned as chairman of the government’s skill development agencies — NSDA and NSDC — sparking speculation that he might be headed back to India’s largest conglomerate.
Rohit Nandan, Vice-chairman of the governing body and Secretary, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, has been appointed interim head of the National Skill Development Agency till a full-time chairman is appointed.
Rudy also highlighted the factors impeding skill development and the drawbacks in functioning of industrial training institutes (ITIs) operating in the country.
He appealed for convergence in the skilling ecosystem and sought suggestions on improving the government’s flagship skilling scheme — the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana.
The minister argued that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) should be under the Ministry of Skill Development instead of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
The Modi government, which has taken the skill development initiatives on a top priority, wants to scale up skilling efforts and has set a target to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022.
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