Employable Skills & Vocational Training

1. Employable Skills & Vocational Training Uncommon Opportunities: Roadmap for Employment, Food & Global Security November 21, 2004 Career Development Foundation of India I.N.D.I.A. Trust

2. Employable Skills • 50% of firms in developing and industrialized countries report severe shortage of skilled workers. • India’s problem is not lack of employment opportunities but lack of employable skills. • Skills create employment and self-employment opportunities.

3. Vocational Skills Gap • Only 5% of India’s workforce (20-24 years) have vocational training compared with 28% in Mexico and 96% in Korea. • By 2010 major labour shortages will emerge in the industrialized nations forcing movement of both manufacturing & service jobs to wherever the skills are best. • Upgrading skills essential to tap global markets

4. Vocational Training in India • 4200 ITIs • 1,654 government run • 2,620 private • Courses offered • 43 engineering & 24 non-engineering trades • Capacity – 6.3 lakhs • State enterprise programmes – 1.7 lakh • Including agriculture & other – 20 lakh

5. Vocational Training Deficit

6. Three Models • Farm Schools in every revenue village • Vocational Schools • Computerized & Televised Vocational Training

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 • Government certification of courses • Generate self-employment opportunities for 50,000 entrepreneurs

10. Multimedia vocational courses