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Employable Skills &
Vocational Training
Uncommon Opportunities:
Roadmap for Employment, Food & Global Security
November 21, 2004
Career Development Foundation of India
I.N.D.I.A. Trust
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Employable Skills
50% of firms in developing and industrialized
countries report severe shortage of skilled workers.
India’s problem is not lack of employment
opportunities but lack of employable skills.
Skills create employment and self-employment
opportunities.
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Vocational Skills Gap
Only 5% of India’s workforce (20-24 years) have
vocational training compared with 28% in Mexico
and 96% in Korea.
By 2010 major labour shortages will emerge in the
industrialized nations forcing movement of both
manufacturing & service jobs to wherever the skills
are best.
Upgrading skills essential to tap global markets
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Vocational Training in India
4200 ITIs
1,654 government run
2,620 private
Courses offered
43 engineering & 24 non-engineering trades
Capacity – 6.3 lakhs
State enterprise programmes – 1.7 lakh
Including agriculture & other – 20 lakh
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Vocational Training Deficit
Students completing 8th-9th standard
300 lakhs
Students entering 10th-11th
150 lakhs
New entrants to workforce (per year)
70 lakhs
Vocational training in engineering, agriculture &
other fields
20 lakhs
New entrants to workforce w/o training
50 lakhs
Existing unemployed youth (15-29) of which 80%
are educated up to 10th
150 lakhs
Existing workers to be trained to raise non-ag
skilled portion to 25%
350 lakhs
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Three Models
Farm Schools in every revenue village
Vocational Schools
Computerized & Televised Vocational Training
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Vocational Schools
Promote vocational institutes at block and district level
5000 govt
50,000 private
Conduct exams for every skill as for drivers licenses
Certify approved training centres, e.g. BPO
Provide scholarships & incentives for trainees
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Computer-based learning is
twice as fast @ half the cost
Multimedia
Interactive
Immediate Feedback
Self-paced learning
Eliminates need for trained teachers
Responds rapidly to changing skill needs
Uniform testing
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Computerized Vocational Training
Establish 1 lakh CVT Institutes like internet cafes
50,000 in private sector
50,000 training centres at engineering and arts
colleges, ITIs, polytechs, high schools, NGOs, etc.
Partnership with industry to develop multimedia
training software
Provide training to a minumum of 4 million students
per annum
Government certification of courses
Generate self-employment opportunities for 50,000
entrepreneurs
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Multimedia vocational courses
RWH
Child care
Nutritionist
Selling skills
Real estate
Law clerk
Telemarketing
Insurance agent
Quality manager
Catering
Video editing
Furniture design
Farm mgmt
Pharma rep
Textile design
Reporter
Dry cleaning
Electrical repair
Travel agent
Internet research
Graphic design
Bookkeeper
Organic farming
Interior design
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