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New Delhi: Skills and knowledge are the driving force of economic growth and social
development for any country. Indian demographic is with the unique facet of being
fraught with a majority of young populace. Education sector in India is well developed

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and mature. The nation's educational infrastructure offers a concrete system comprising

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of Primary education, Secondary education and Higher education. The constitution of

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Education and Skill development becomes quite an imperative sector to appropriate this

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massive human resource. The supply of public education is inefficient and leaves a
significant shortfall which is being filled by private education institutions. The working
age group between 15 to 59 years is its largest bulk constituting of more than 65% of
total population. In such a backdrop, 29% of children are enrolled in private schools. In
higher education sector, private institutions, colleges and universities are playing a
pivotal role in the education landscape.

The nation's educational infrastructure offers a concrete system comprising of Primary education, Secondary
education and Higher education.

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Potentially the target group for skill development comprises of all those in the labour
force, including those entering the labour market for the first time. The current capacity
of the skill development programs is 3.1 million. India has target of skilling 500 people by
2022.According to a survey 2 percent of the countrys workforce is skilled which is much
lower when compared to the developing nations; there is a dual challenge of developing
skills and utilizing them in a proper way.
Education and Skill development sector constitutes of Industrial Training, Professional
courses and vocational education apart from School and higher education. Skill

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development is associated more to the context of industry oriented training that fetch
immediate employment and earning. In India, education and skill development sector is
structured under two independent ministries.
The Ministry of Human Resource and Development is associated with conventional

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Higher education sector is regulated by this ministry. Industry oriented training and
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Institute and other vocational education programs are maintained under the ambit of
this ministry. Additionally, a number of commissions and agencies such as AICTE, UGC
are dedicated for higher education in the country.
About 1.3 million schools operate in India where over 227 million students are enrolled.
The figure indicates the state of regular enrolment in primary and secondary education
levels. Side by side, vocational education courses is also operated under the National
Institute for Open Schooling. According to surveys, total number of government higher
educational institutions in India is 20, 769. It includes Universities, Research Institutions,
Colleges for Arts, Science and Commerce, Engineering and Architecture and Medical
institutes, Polytechnic institutes and Teachers Training Institutes.
In contrast, the private sector has a much larger role in the education scenario of the
country. Apart from primary education sector, private colleges, universities and institutes
are contributing substantially to higher education. Industrial Training Institutes and
Industrial Training Centers are the primary faculties for Vocational Training. 6,906 such
institutes and centers are operating across the country imparting industrial training

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courses to about 9.53 lakhs students.

The government has to put massive effort to form better educational structure especially
for skill development sector comprising of industry-oriented training. A number of special
initiatives are rolled by Government. The National Skill Policy, among others, devised in
2009 set a target to impart skill development training to 500 million by 2022. An apex
institution for devising policy and review Skill development sector is the Prime Ministers
National Council on Skill Development. Initiatives were also taken to coordinate both
private and public sector to impart skill development.
National Skill Development Coordination Board, NSDC is setup on a PPP model. It is a
juxtaposition of public sector and private entities. The board formulates policies and
programs on National Skill Development under the ambit of Prime Ministers Council. It
also evaluates and monitors the outcomes of such programs. The agency planned to
establish 1500 new ITIs and 5000 skill development centers. The NVEQF, National
Vocational Education Qualification Framework will be formed for an integrated Skill
development infrastructure. This framework is for affiliations and accreditation of
vocational education and training systems.
Initiatives for skill development should be oriented towards both catering the demand
and creating the demand. Skill development is strongly related to the market and
industry. Efficient skill development programs will add value across wide sections of
workers creating rich human resource. The need of skill development for employability is
across every section of the workforce. From operators and technician level workers to
highly skilled labor comprising of college graduates needs an effective platform for skill

development. The initiatives by government are massive; however, the extent to which
they operate is inadequate to bring effective progress to the lackadaisical nature of
current scenario. This calls in for pervasive initiative by private entities through
collaborated as well as independent works. Contributions by companies such as Everonn
and Educomp in vocational training sector are noteworthy. Devising a modular structure
for imparting skill development is an effective approach for progress in this direction.
There is massive scope of development in Education sector of India. Although a number
of institutes are successful to be among top 100 in global ranking, deficiency is quite
apparent. India should focus on a holistic approach to hone the human resource of the
nation, by implementing better solutions to reach out to thousands of villages in rural
landscape. Leveraging private sector is beneficial since a competitive sense to provide
service is inductive in this domain. This helps in propagating effective and innovative
ways to educate the deprived section bringing in more effectual as well as pervasive
national development.

Disclaimer: Author Ajay Chhangani is CEO, Rise India Group. The above article represents
the personal views of the author. It does not reflect the stand of CNN-IBN/IBNLive.

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