This is a presentation used for explaining the importance and concept of Skill Development with respect to various issues addressed by the UNDP, OECD, ILO and India.

1. RUBICS SKILLS
A Skill Development Program

2. Index

3. ● Human Resource Development
● Skill Development
● The Future of Work
● Skill Gaps
● Skill Development, a Sustainable Development Goal
○ United Nations Development Program
○ International Labour Organization
○ Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
● india@75 initiative

4. Human Resource Development

5. ● India is the most populous country in the world
● Overpopulation is it’s biggest concern
● The per capita pressure on land is the most in this
country

6. ● This excess population can be a boon or a bane for
the future of India
● Trained manpower will be the country’s biggest
resource
○ 38 million more collegiates are produced in India
and China than U.S.A. in the same period

7. ● Untrained manpower will be the country’s biggest
curse
● It will result in job loss, lowering of economic
powers and it will lead to an increase in
uncertainty and crime

8. Skill Development

9. ● Training increases the earning power of
individuals
● Unlike China where skill development starts from
grade 8, in India skill development does not take
place till a vocation is undertaken
● Most universities in India provide very poor
quality of education

10. The Future of Work

11. ● The future will be marked by technologies like
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Robotics
● It is supposed to replace most routine jobs by 2030
● This will lead to a shift in the way work happens
● It will lead to loss of mundane jobs
● Newer skill sets will be required to be learnt

12. ● Life expectancy is going to go up by at least 20 years
● It will require sustenance skills for sustenance well
beyond retirement age

13. Skill Gaps

14. ● Global population is ageing rapidly.
● India is at a strategic advantage with regards to
demographic dividend as it has one of the youngest
populations in the world.

15. ● However, three fourths of India’s population is
unskilled.
● India and Brazil face huge skill gaps due to low
employability.
● There is a wide gap between skills required in the
industry and those provided by the education
system.

16. ● The magnitude of the challenge is enormous as by
2025, india’s demographic dividend is expected to
contribute 25% of global workforce.
● Organized retail is among the two most conducive
sectors for growth of skill development as it is
characterised by high demand outlook.

17. ● Training in retail requires heavy consumer focus
and hence requirement of strong communication
skill and other soft skills.
● With 1.2 crore individuals joining the workforce
every year, tackling the the pressing issue of skills
gap is imperative as it could derail India’s growth
story.
● Talent has today emerged as the most important
asset of a company.

18. ● Strategic employee engagement initiatives offer
companies an effective tool to attract and retain
premium talent to enhance productivity.
● However an alarming 52% of Indian employees
remain somewhat dissatisfied in their jobs,
signalling that companies have to take proactive
steps to sustain engagement.

19. ● Developing more practical, applied, experience-
based education and building deeper relationships
with the ecosystem are required to bridge the skill
gap in India.
● As India moves towards becoming a knowledge
economy, it is focusing on advancement of skills
relevant to emerging economic development.

20. Sustainable Development Goals

21. United Nations Development Program

22. ● In 2000, 189 countries of the world came together to
face the future.
● What they saw was famines, drought, wars, plagues,
poverty.
● They knew we had enough food to feed the world
but it was not getting shared.

23. ● They knew there were medicines for HIV but that
they cost a lot.
● They also knew that billions of people worldwide
shared their hope for a better future. So leaders
from these countries created a plan called the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

24. ● This set of 8 goals imagined a future just 15 years
off that would be rid of poverty and hunger.
● Now these countries want to build on their successes
of the past 15 years and go further.

25. ● The new set of goals, the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), aims to end poverty and hunger by
2030.
● Quality Education is one of the SDGs.

26. Quality Education As a SDG

27. ● The SDG ensures inclusive and equitable quality
education and promotes lifelong learning
opportunities for all.
● Poverty, armed conflict and other emergencies keep
many many kids around the world out of school.

28. ● In developing regions, kids from the poorest
households are four times more likely to be out of
school than those in the richest household.
● Since 2000, there has been enormous progress on
the goal to provide primary education to all
children worldwide.

29. ● The primary school enrollment rate in developing
regions reached 91%.
● Now we are trying to get an even better grade for all
kids and achieve the goal of universal primary
education, affordable vocational training, access to
higher education and more.

30. International Labour Organization

31. ● The number of men and women employed and their productivity
at work has a lot to do with available opportunities to acquire
and maintain relevant skills.
● Countries and persons perceiving skill development as strategic
and seeking to setup investments in skills and who realize the full
potential of skill development face common challenges.
● In September 2009, G20 leaders called for putting quality jobs at
the heart of recovery plans that support decent work, help
preserve employment and prioritize job growth.

32. ● They welcomed the ILO’s Global Jobs Pact and agreed on the
importance of building an employment-oriented framework for
future economic growth.
● Leaders adopted a framework for strong, sustainable and
balanced growth as the instrument for their cooperative action.

33. ● They acknowledged the role of skill development in that
framework, stating that “each of our countries will need, through
its own national policies, to strengthen the ability of our workers
to adapt to changing market demands and to benefit from
innovation and investments in new technologies, clean energy,
environment, health and infrastructure.”

34. ● They asked the ILO to develop a training strategy for their
consideration.
● Leaders pledged to continue to support national strategies for
skills development, building on G20 Training Strategy.

35. ● An early version of the training strategy was discussed at the
G20 Employment and Labour Ministers Meeting in Washington
DC in April 2010, who recommended prioritizing education,
lifelong learning, job training and skills development strategies
linked to growth strategies.

36. ● There are a number of critical elements
○ Availability of quality education as a foundation for future training, Education for
all, and children in school and not at work, is an essential foundation for of future
training.
○ Building solid bridges between the world of work and training provided in order
to match skills provision to the needs of enterprises.
○ A continuous workplace, training and lifelong learning enabling enabling workers
and enterprises to adjust an increasingly rapid pace of change.
○ Anticipating and building competencies for future needs.
○ Ensuring broad access to training opportunities, for women and men, and
particularly for those groups facing greater difficulties, in particular youth, lower
skilled workers, workers with disabilities, rural communities.

37. ● Decent work, a universal aspiration, is the best path to self-
advancement of women and men.
● It underpins the stability of communities and families.
● It is an integral component of strategies for sustainable
development and growth.
● And the skills are pivotal to decent growth strategies.

38. O.E.C.D.

39. ● The OECD group of countries has come a long way in their
reflections on sustainable development.
● Most national governments have begun to incorporate
sustainable development into their planning and policy.
● Pro-active businesses across the globe have brought
sustainability to their products and services.

40. ● Putting the principles of sustainable development into practice
has proven to be anything but simple or straightforward.
● The OECD has been at the forefront of the effort to advance
sustainable development.
● It has supported extensive research on challenges of
sustainability and been active in efforts to develop best practices.

41. ● One of the significant challenges lies in policy coherence -
ensuring that different policies and practices support each other
in reaching a goal which is essential to achieving real and lasting
progress.
● With a long record of research, analysis and international
cooperation, the OECD can offer policy options for addressing
these challenges.

42. india@75 initiative

43. ● India@75 is The Confederation of Indian Industries path
breaking initiatives that envisioned how India should be in its
75th year of independence.
● It is an effort to bring together all stakeholders including the
industry, government, institutions, community groups and
individuals to translate the vision into reality.
● It is an effort to declare India as an inclusively developed country
by 2022 and skill development is one of the main points in the
agenda.