1. MANTHAN
Boosting Skillsets
Increasing the employability of youth
A presentation by- Representing-
Atul Verma Institute of Technology
Virat Sagar Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya,
Shashwat Parihar Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
Ankit Singh ( A Central University)
Vivek

2. Problems
India has world’s largest Youth population, and 57% of them
are not fully employable.
• How to increase the skillsets of Indian Youth to make a large
percentage employable?
The percent of students enrolled in post secondary level decreases
to 3.5% from 27% of those in the secondary level.
• How to make sure that students leaving the education at
higher secondary level have enough skills to be employed?
The rate of joblessness for literate youth increased from 22.8% to
24.3%, means the existing education system does not guarantee
employability
• What changes should be made in the teaching methodologies
and curricula to make youth more employable?
The employers are increasingly laying emphasis on the core skills
rather than the professional knowledge, i.e. , knowledge of the subject.
• How to insert the improvement of core skills in regular secondary
and graduation courses? 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Primary Secondary Hr.
Secondary
Graduation
% of Youth w.r.t. Level of
education
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
86
Normal Graduate Technical Graduate
Percent of Unemployable Youth
Percent of Unemployable Youth

3. Solutions We Propose
• Participation of Industries : Collaboration of Industry/ Market and Institutions in chalking out a strategy of improving the
employability of students. The Industry, along with the Institutions and government, will have to share the responsibility of
grooming the students for job market.
• Teachers’ Recruitment Policy : Change in teachers’ recruitment policy by introducing the method of scientific selection of
teachers.
• Changes in curriculum : Changes in curriculum and teaching methodology at both senior secondary and graduation levels.
Removing obsolete topics and introducing topics of vocational importance as well as using multimedia techniques for more
effective teaching.
• Challenge the Students : Providing students with real life challenges faced by industry and market and handling
responsibilities over to them, and to allow them to venture out in market.
For the implementation of these solutions, we propose the formation of a separate department under the MHRD dedicated solely
to the employability of youth . The department will follow the following modus operandi
Survey Planning Recomme-
ndations
Implem-
entation Vigilance

4. Survey
Proposals
Industrial Survey:
•Enquiring the skillsets needed by
the industries
Institutional Survey:
•About syllabi, infrastructure,
teacher recruitment and
teaching methodology.
Workforce Survey:
•About industrial interface,
teaching process and confidence
in knowledge gained.
Manpower
Needed
A district level officer
Concerned Directors
State Education Secretory
A centralized database
Implementation
The survey will be
conducted at district level
by the district level
officer through
questionnaires and the
data will be forwarded
through various levels of
hierarchy for verifications,
finally landing into a
central database.

5. PlanningPlanning
Identification
Academic topics needed to impart skills required by industries.
Obsolete topics, which no longer are needed
Infrastructure being used by industries and institutions
Evaluation
Study of topics being taught each year separately
Processes of Industry/Market which can be in sync with
syllabus
Evaluation of experimental/ practical procedure being carried
on campus
Evaluation of teaching methodology
Aspiration of students, their areas of interest

6. Recommendations
• The planning committee will forward its recommendations to MHRD, which will then be scrutinized and
implemented by it.
• Following are the recommendations which our team wishes to propose.
• Recommendations for Secondary and Higher Secondary level.
SecondaryandHigher
Secondarylevel
Syllabus
Professional skills
Addition of vocational topics
Compulsory industrial
experience
Core skills
Inclusion of situation tests
Dedicated periods for core
skill development
Teachers’ recruitment
Classroom teaching
experience based B. Ed.
Syllabus
Trial classes and feedback of
students

7. Recommendations
• Recommendations for Higher Education level
HigherEducationLevel
Syllabus
Core skills
Handing responsibilities sans the administrative ones to
the students
Real life case studies /challenges/bottlenecks
should be provided by industries
Professional Skills
Compulsory annual Industrial training
Regular lectures by industry personnel
Improving the infrastructures of existing institutes
Teachers’ Recruitment
Design a scientific
recruitment process
Feedback of the students
must be taken into account
Infrastructure
Simple practical can be
demonstrated in classes
themselves
Heavy machinery/resources
being used should be derived
from industry/markets

8. Implementation
Implementation procedures
•Fund allocation for specific tasks.
•It will redirect the orders to respective organizations.
•The recommendationsof the MHRD will be conveyed to the industry/
market and institutions, and they will be directed to act accordingly.
•Constant vigilancewill be kept on the implementationof the
recommendations.
Manpower required
•A group of financial experts.
•Existing system of bureaucracy.
Channel for the flow of information/data:
Forward flow of
data with
verification
Reverse flow to
previous level if
discrepancy
detected
District level
officer
Concerned
directors
Education
seceratory of the
state
Survey Committee
Planning/
Recommendation
Committee
Vigilance
Committee

9. Vigilance
• A state level vigilance department will be set up and it will report to the education
secretary of the state.
• This department will take action when reported about discrepancies or corruption
by Industries or Institutes
• Accordingly, the department will serve the defaulters with a show cause notice
failing to reply to which satisfactorily, the organisations will have to face actions as
recommended by the MHRD.
Complaint at
district level
Vigilance
analyses the
complaint
If allegations
are true,
serves with a
show cause
notice
If no
satisfactory
answer
received,
takes action
as per the
MHRD norms

10. Budgeting
Totalfundrequired
Survey Cost
District level- INR 13 cr. p.a.
State level- INR 5 cr. p.a.
Planning Cost INR 12 cr. p.a.
Implementation,
Organization and control
INR 10 cr. p.a.
• Since we are harnessing the already existing system, most of the budget will
consist only of additional allowances and incentives. Hence, the burden on
the treasury will be reasonably low.

11. Impacts and Challenges
Impacts
• No need to set up extra mechanism or infrastructure, core skills will be imparted in the already existing institutions.
• Enriched industrial environment will be generated in the institutions themselves and students will get acquainted with work culture and ethics
even before joining the workforce.
• The students leaving education at the senior secondary level will also be equipped with essential skills to get them employed.
• Each student will be imparted basic financial skills which will boost the entrepreneurial aspirations among them.
• Revolutionary changes will take place in academia as the teachers will be recruited through scientific selection processes.
• Since Industry is sharing the responsibilities, load on the government will decrease.
• A considerable decrease in training time and increase in productivity of recruits will benefit the industry and shall enable it to train more
recruits in the same time period.
• Overall, if carefully and honestly implemented, this program will surely boost the skill sets and all round development of the workforce.
Challenges
• Generally, an existing system is resilient to changes, so it will be tough to implement the plan and its recommendations properly.
• Since it will suddenly change the curriculum and teaching methodology, students and teachers will find it difficult to adapt to it at
once.
• Workload on the students and teachers will increase.
• To bring Industries on a common platform with the Institutions will take some serious efforts.
• Industries, mainly private corporate houses will resist the handing over of responsibilities on to them.
• Proper and synchronized functioning of government machinery and corruption free and unhindered flow of data.

12. Bibliography & References
• Skill gap study for national goods by NSDC
• Growth and structure of Employment in India by T.S. Papola and Parth Pratim
Sahu, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi.
• Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India by Andreas
Blom, Hiroshi Saeki, World Bank
• State of Urban Youth, India, 2012, UN Habitat.
• ILO Asia – Pacific Workig Paper on Youth Employment and Unemployment.
• Youth Employment and Unemployment in India by S. Mahendradev and M. Venkat
Narayana.
• Magazines published by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting like YOJANA,
KURUKSHETRA and Research Journals.
• Articles published in newspapers.