July 21, 2016
Vivek Gupta makes a Special Mention on Skill Development
Sir, twelve million people join workforce every year in India. Around 15 per cent skilled people are unemployed. Proposed new target amounts to 400 million people being skilled by 2022 to plug the Skill Gap and lead to more people getting jobs. But the current scenario of Indians already skilled in the country is in a helpless situation where unemployment rate in the existing Industrial Training Institutes or Skill Centres is about 14.5 per cent (Labour Bureau, 2014).
In other figures published by the Labour Bureau, engineering (other than civil) is 25 per cent unemployed; textiles amount to 17 per cent; hospitality is 14 per cent; machinist / administration is 14 per cent; health 11 per cent. The urgency of the matter is that if we do not create infrastructure or jobs first, how are these formally skilled people going to feed their families and for how long will they depend on unemployed allowances given by Governments?
Hon. Chief Minister of West Bengal has taken some policy initiatives to address the issues such as Swanirbhar, Gatidhara, career guidance etc. As a result, the unemployment rate has dropped from 78 in 2011 to 52 in 2014 and reducing further. The industrial policy of Bengal is geared towards employment generation.
The Central Government should learn from such success stories and urgently come up with a plan to provide employment to already skilled people rather than wait for more people (to join the unemployment numbers) being added by Skill India Programme and the problem to become a gigantic one. Thank you.
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