“The Ministry aims to skill around 40 crore people by 2022. It also plans to formulate a National Skill Plan by March 2017 with focus on flagship programmes and key growth areas,” said a top government official.
“As per estimates by the Ministry, there is an additional skilled manpower requirement of 12.68 crore by 2022 and going as per current trends only about 6.9 crore individuals can be trained,” sources said.
The Skill Development Ministry will also require additional thousands of crores of rupees to bridge the gap over the next few years, some of which would be provided by the Centre and the state governments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accorded top priority to skilling and set up a separate Ministry for Skill Development on November 9, 2014. He has entrusted the task to Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who earlier held the Civil Aviation portfolio.
The Modi government hopes to find favour with the large constituency of unemployed youth through the initiative.
Sourced from agencies, Featured image courtesy: HR Daily Advisor – BLR.com
