New Delhi : The government plans to revamp its skills framework, including a more targeted Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and setting up of a dedicated national institute of skill development to centralize skill training and funding.
The proposals form part of the skill development and entrepreneurship ministry’s Vision 2025 to help substantially enhance the scale of skilling in the country in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of making India the Skills Capital of the World, a senior official said.
“Going forward NSDC (National Skills Development Corporation) will cease to play the role of an implementer of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) and focus on its other three roles,” the ministry has said in its draft vision document.
This is in line with the government decision to enhance focus on its flagship skill development scheme and will help sharpen NSDC’s focus in other areas such as creating sustainable ecosystem for skill development, incentivizing skill development programmes, and providing services such as innovation and funding, the official said.
The ministry has prepared a comprehensive vision document to take its skilling initiatives forward. This will be finalized soon after consultations with various stakeholders.
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The ministry is looking to enhance the role of sector skill councils to assess demand generation in the informal sector as well. “Earlier the participation was limited from states and MSMEs, but we will now increase their participation to account for local context and skilled needs of the informal sector,” the draft said.
Besides, the ministry has proposed setting up of a National Institute of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The structure and functions of the institute “will be detailed in the next phase, post consultations with relevant stakeholders”, it said.
People familiar with the development said this could serve as a common umbrella, collectively evolving into a think tank for knowledge production and capacity building for skill and entrepreneurship development in the country.
The government had in 2015 rolled out a National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, aiming at policy prescription to make India the skills capital of the world though Skills India Mission, to be reviewed in five years. “A comprehensive skills policy is already under place… Hence, we intend to supplement this with a five-year vision to achieve desired results,” a senior government official said.
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