‘There is a need to build skills within the workforce’

Posted: Monday, Nov 10, 2008 at 2256 hrs IST
Updated: Monday, Nov 10, 2008 at 2256 hrs IST

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: two years in duration. Shorter, more focused programmes with specific outcomes were offered by the Modular Employable Skill Scheme, which has successfully bridged this gap of the ITIs.

Could you tell us a little about training imparted through this scheme?

Through this scheme one can get short term employment training of 200 to 600 hours across 300 trades covering 70% of the industry requirement. CII is putting a lot of weight behind this scheme because we see benefit in it. The training can be done by anyone registered as a vocational training provider and companies can also choose to conduct the training internally and get reimbursed by the government an amount of Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 per participant per month, depending on the complexity of the of the training imparted. What this scheme also does is address immediate needs and also change the dynamics of the equation by putting industry right in the heart of the training rollout. Our own company Saint Gobain has benefited from this facility wherein we conduct 21 working days of modular employability training for our logistics staff on industry safety and industry soft skills many of who have not had any significant prior training and after going through this training involving simulations, self learning modules, Q&A classroom formats we found a marked improvement in output of these employees. We have successfully trained 15,000 people over the past 7 to 8 years. The cost borne was about Rs 2.7 crore and largely government-funded. On completion of the training, attendees get a National Council Vocational Training Certificate thus making them more employable. The reason this format of skill training is not leveraged as much as it should be is because a lot of companies are not aware about the modular employable programme. There have been a lot of successful pilot level initiatives within the modular employable skill scheme in states such as Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Today while industry is affected by the economic slow down, the far-sighted companies will who look beyond 12 to 18 months will benefit if they take this opportunity in training their employees and building skill capability....

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