Ministries assess skill needs to impart focused training
The ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship collaborates with five central ministries to fulfill their scheme-specific demand for skilled workforce. The goal is to provide short-term training, reskilling, and upskilling under the Skill ...
The idea is to impart short-term training to the identified candidates as well as reskill and upskill them and prepare a pool of skilled workforce for smooth implementation of these schemes on ground, a senior government official, aware of the deliberations, told ET.
According to the official, skill gap analysis is being done across these schemes to assess demand for skilled workforce over the next five years. It is expected to be complete by the end of the current financial year and MSDE hopes to start training from 2025-26. "This will serve the twin purpose for the government. It will help fast-track skills training in the country targeted at schemes while ensuring implementation of schemes by professionally trained people for effective and desired outcomes," the official added.
Skilling would include both short-term training (200-600 hours) and recognition of prior learning (RPL) based up-skilling (30-132 hours) under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 4.0).
The five ministries which have reached out to the skills ministry for trained manpower include the ministry of tourism, ministry of health and family welfare, ministry of housing and urban affairs, ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution and the ministry of social justice and empowerment.
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The schemes in need for a trained manpower include the SWAGATAM under the tourism ministry, for municipal solid waste management under the housing and urban affairs ministry, for food safety and standards authority of India, for managing PM Kisan Samridhi Kendra and for NAMASTE (National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) scheme and geriatric care giver for the department of social justice and empowerment.
Under NAMASTE, the government aims to formalize and institutionalise the persons engaged in hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks and promoting safe and mechanized cleaning through trained sanitation workers.
