The document proposes the EYC Model to enhance youth competency and employability in India. The EYC Model involves administering a multidisciplinary aptitude test in 10th grade to identify interests, followed by counseling, certification courses, vocational training, internships, and skills development programs. After implementation of EYC, youth will be better equipped to meet industry needs. EYC also aims to develop a public-private partnership model to provide skills training in rural areas and strengthen primary education, continuing the cycle of skills development.

1. ENHANCING YOUTH COMPETENCY Building a skilled workforce
BOOSTING SKILLSETS Increasing the Employability of Youth
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TEAM ‘TEJAS’
•Akansha Shukla
•Aditi Vajpeyi
•Rahul S. Verma
•Satyam Rai
•Satyam Gupta

2. What is Employability ?
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“It refers to a person’s capability to gain and retain employment”

3. Which skills make a person employable ?
•Verbal communication
•Team work
•Commercial awareness
•Analysing and investigating
•Initiative nature
•Drive
•Written communication
•Planning and organising skills
•Flexibility
•Time management
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4. CURRENT SCENARIO Statistics and the loopholes
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Expected Employments every month ( in lakhs )
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Unemployable
Employable
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I.67% of Indian employers reported struggle to find workers who meet their requirements whereas 80% of the workforce in rural and urban areas do not possess any identifiable marketable skills
II.The formation of NSDC was to enhance the skills of youth across India, it was targeted to train 150 million youth by 2022
III.Yet, progress on this front has been slow at best. The National Skill Development Corporation and various other ministries have met only 16.5% of their target for 2012-13. A lot more needs to be done.
Graph Data acquired from - Anand, G. (2011, April 5). ‘India Graduates Millions, but Too Few are fit to hire’. The Wall Street Journal

5. EYC MODEL - A PROPOSED SOLUTION
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Reaching the lowest, providing support to rural and unorganised employees. Sustaining a public private partnership (PPP) skill enhancement module for rural areas.
Industrial and marketing skills , Learning through working. Team work, flexibility, life skills development programs.
Focussing on Certificate and vocational courses at college level. Periodic value addition through training modules
Awareness and Counselling about prospective field of study. Career and Skill development programs / extra curricular activities.
Multidisciplinary Aptitude Test At 10th level.

6. THE FIRST STEP Identifying Interests – The Test
•Designing a Multidisciplinary Aptitude Test to analyse and assess the interests of oneself after completing basic secondary education
•This will be intended only to understand the relation between one’s INTERESTS and POTENTIALS in three basic areas namely, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts , Science and Maths
•It won’t be an academic test, no system of qualifying marks, it’ll have qualitative scoring schemes
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7. THE NEXT STEP Counselling about future Prospective
•Making students cognizant about their identified field of interest
•Telling about the market scope and demand in their respective field
•Introducing mandatory career development programmes, for enhancing employability skills, in schools and colleges
•Increasing managerial skills based extra-curricular activities at college level
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8. •Certification courses to enhance the skills in the chosen field of interest
•Vocational courses to boost co-curricular skills which are non assessed during the academic course
• Training modules to develop skills according to industry requirements
•Introducing technical internships which also involve value addition programs
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A STEP AHEAD Training for boosting skills

9. THE IMPLEMENTATION STEP Learning via Working
•Developing flexibility to adapt to the continuously changing technology, work environment and responsibilities
•Learning to work as a team at the work place
•Upgrading commercial awareness via market research
•After the implementation of EYC model, the youth becomes competent enough to meet industrial challenges and market demand
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10. BEYOND EYC Reaching the lowest
•Rural India needs a reliable employability skill development module
•A skilled youth after implementation of EYC can contribute to this module
•The module will be based on PPP model and implemented through NGOs and social welfare organisations
•Strengthening the primary education in rural areas through this public private partnership is the first step
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11. EYC AND BEYOND The skill development cycle
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CURRENT SCENARIO
EDUCATED BUT UNSKILLED YOUTH
EYC
SKILLED YOUTH
RURAL AND UNORGANISED SECTORS
REACHING THE LOWEST
IMPROVING