skills development for msmes: mapping of key initiatives in india
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Skills Development for MSMEs: Mapping of Key Initiatives in India. Presented in the 2013 Asian Conference on Innovation and Policy, New Delhi, India, August 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Skills Development for MSMEs:
Mapping of Key Initiatives in
IndiaIndia
Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
ASIP2013
Driving Forces• India is enjoying a demographic dividend vis-à-vis ageing
countries.
• India will have one-fourth of global workforce by 2022.
• Emerging economies in global south – enjoy globalization
effect of job creation in export-oriented industries.
• Government’s efforts in inclusive growth• Government’s efforts in inclusive growth
• Current capacity for skill development in the country is 3.1
million (2007 estimate).
• Target of skilling 500 million people by 2022 to meet the
challenges of India @ 75 after independence.
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) lead in
livelihoods development through jobs creation and access to
skills-based employment.
• Jobs need skills, pull skills, and build skills
• Privilege in access to jobs distorts the signals; it hurts and
discourages, rather than encourages, the building of skills.
OECD-ILO Strategies for local job creation, skills
development and social protection (a set of 10 principles and policy suggestions for governments and socio-economic actors)
• Shaping the path to job-rich growth
• Facilitating adjustments to greater trade integration and openness
• Strengthening local institutions through policy coherence between
national and local governments
• Equipping public employment services with right tools to generate labour
market intelligence
• Maximizing skills development and training
• Developing systems of social protection
• Anticipating the impact of demographic changes in local development
• Harnessing infrastructure development with local economic and
employment strategies
• Enabling a sustainable business environment focusing on micro, small and
medium enterprises
• Accelerating the transition to low-carbon economy and sustainable local
development
Critical Assessment
OECD, Skills Development Pathways in Asia, 2012, highlights
• Measures to strengthen vocational training at the upper secondary level in India
• Reducing Indian youths leaving school without adequate vocational qualifications
• Smoothing the school-to-work transition. • Smoothing the school-to-work transition.
• China has undertaken promising initiatives to combine rigorous academic course work with workplace training
• Mexico is using mobile training units for reaching out youths those living in rural areas with limited opportunities for learning. Reducing drop out.
• No comprehensive strategy for promoting skills for a green economy in India
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
• Filling gaps of National Vocational Training System
• Identified high growth sectors and incremental skill gaps incremental skill gaps
• Setting up of Sectoral Skill Councils, with industry bodies and associations
• Skill development centres in PPP model
• Creation of Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS)
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
Aajeevika Skill Development Programme
(ASDP)
Target: Rural youth age group of 17-35 years from below poverty line (BPL) families.
International Linkages for Skills Development in India
• World Bank-funded Vocational Training Improvement Project (VTIP), 2007-2014; PD objective: To improve the employment outcomes of graduates from the VTS, design and delivery of training more demand responsive.
• GTZ (German Technical Cooperation)-funded Project “Advisory Services towards Restructuring and Expanding National Vocational Training System (NVTS) with Emphasis on Informal Sector”, 2004-20072007
• European Commission-funded India-EU Skills Development Project, 2011-2016; the Project aims at supporting the implementation of India’s National Policy on Skills Development, National Qualifications Framework (NQF), and set-up of a Labour Market Information System (LMIS).
– DGE&T, NCVT, NSDC >> << Cambridge Education, Aarhus Tech (DK), Scottish Qualifications Authority, City and Guilds (UK)
• Bilateral MoUs signed with foreign governments
– Indo-German, Indo-British, Indo-Swedish, Indo-Danish, Indo-Singapore etc.
Concluding remarks
• Increasing capacity and quality of skills development and vocational education will improve productivity in micro enterprises, and SMEs
• Skills certification and benchmarking through NSQF and NOS will help in participation of MSMEs in globalized jobs created in India
• ASDP and its sub-schemes ensure skill building of rural youth, • ASDP and its sub-schemes ensure skill building of rural youth, their job-diversification, and help them in coming out of poverty through skills-based jobs
• NSDC’s Sector Skill Councils and ASDP both will improve capability to reaching out skills required for informal and unorganized sectors and/or people in informal sectors
• Who is more efficient in school-to-work smooth transition>> ASDP or NSDC or vocational stream at high school level
• Thank You