Department of Training and Technical Education, Government of NCT of Delhi, has come up with a blueprint for Delhi Skills Mission. In a workshop in the capital on November 3, Naresh Kumar, Secretary, TTE, made a presentation on the vision and the thrust areas of the mission. The vision of the mission is to contribute to Delhi’s development by skilling the requisite number of persons in areas that have high market demand, and by such skilling, contribute to Delhi’s inclusive growth. The thrust areas of the mission are:
- Re-engineering of existing institutions
- Providing modular employable skills
- Develop self-employment and entrepreneurial skills with bankable projects
- Create a confluence of all training activities of different departments under the Delhi Skills Mission
- Ensure supply of skilled employees in tune with the emerging global market demand
Delhi has an influx of 500,000 people from other states, mostly unskilled and illiterates. A very large number of them are school dropouts. Eighty-six per cent people are in the informal sector. The government ITIs have 15,000 seats and private ITCs have 5,000 seats. The ITIs not only fall short in terms of numbers, but also lack in quality. The Skills Development Mission will increase the reach of training by inculcating skill development training to not only those persons passing out from schools, but unemployed youth, school dropouts and informal sector workers too. It will strive to improve the quality and reach of both long-term and short-term skills courses. Other ways of increasing the skills reach will be to grant certification to skills acquired informally, and to grant accreditation to skills-training institutes, providers and instructors. The aim will be to cover 25 per cent of the needy population in three years and 50 per cent in five years. One fourth of the trainees would be slum dwellers and one-fourth would be women.
Among the highlights of the strategies to be adopted are:
- Framing and recognition of curricula as per demands of the market
- Independent certifying body
- Provision for trainees to acquire a bunch of skills
- Skills to be bunched at institute level
- Social marketing will be stressed upon to change the social attitude towards blue-collar vocational courses through seminars, workshops and awareness programmes in schools
- Technical Education Community Outreach Scheme, aimed at training informal sector workers and school dropouts, mainly in slums
- Takniki Shiksha Sansthan Kalyan Samiti, focused on re-invigorating existing vocational training institutes.
The general council of the Delhi Skills Mission will have the chief minister as the chairman, and ministers of industries, education and social welfare; secretary (education), secretary (finance) and secretary (social welfare), among others, onboard.
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