The document discusses India's initiatives for skills development targeting micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to meet the challenge of skilling 500 million people by 2022. It highlights government and international efforts to improve vocational training, enhance job opportunities, and create labour market intelligence, while addressing issues such as the school-to-work transition and rural skill development. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) plays a pivotal role in bridging skill gaps through partnerships and various programs aimed at improving employment outcomes.

1. Skills Development for MSMEs:
Mapping of Key Initiatives in
IndiaIndia
Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
ASIP2013

2. Driving Forces
• India is enjoying a demographic dividend vis-à-vis ageing
countries.
• India will have one-fourth of global workforce by 2022.
• Emerging economies in global south – enjoy globalization
effect of job creation in export-oriented industries.
• Government’s efforts in inclusive growth• Government’s efforts in inclusive growth
• Current capacity for skill development in the country is 3.1
million (2007 estimate).
• Target of skilling 500 million people by 2022 to meet the
challenges of India @ 75 after independence.
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) lead in
livelihoods development through jobs creation and access to
skills-based employment.

3. • Jobs need skills, pull skills, and build skills
• Privilege in access to jobs distorts the signals; it hurts and
discourages, rather than encourages, the building of skills.

4. OECD-ILO Strategies for local job creation, skills
development and social protection
(a set of 10 principles and policy suggestions for governments and socio-economic actors)
• Shaping the path to job-rich growth
• Facilitating adjustments to greater trade integration and openness
• Strengthening local institutions through policy coherence between
national and local governments
• Equipping public employment services with right tools to generate labour
market intelligence
• Maximizing skills development and training
• Developing systems of social protection
• Anticipating the impact of demographic changes in local development
• Harnessing infrastructure development with local economic and
employment strategies
• Enabling a sustainable business environment focusing on micro, small and
medium enterprises
• Accelerating the transition to low-carbon economy and sustainable local
development

5. Critical Assessment
OECD, Skills Development Pathways in Asia, 2012, highlights
• Measures to strengthen vocational training at the upper
secondary level in India
• Reducing Indian youths leaving school without adequate
vocational qualifications
• Smoothing the school-to-work transition.• Smoothing the school-to-work transition.
• China has undertaken promising initiatives to combine
rigorous academic course work with workplace training
• Mexico is using mobile training units for reaching out youths
those living in rural areas with limited opportunities for
learning. Reducing drop out.
• No comprehensive strategy for promoting skills for a green
economy in India

7. National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
• Filling gaps of National Vocational Training
System
• Identified high growth sectors and
incremental skill gapsincremental skill gaps
• Setting up of Sectoral Skill Councils, with
industry bodies and associations
• Skill development centres in PPP model
• Creation of Labour Market Information
Systems (LMIS)

8. National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

11. Aajeevika Skill Development Programme
(ASDP)
Target: Rural youth age group of 17-35 years from below poverty line (BPL) families.

14. International Linkages for Skills Development in India
• World Bank-funded Vocational Training Improvement Project (VTIP),
2007-2014; PD objective: To improve the employment outcomes of
graduates from the VTS, design and delivery of training more
demand responsive.
• GTZ (German Technical Cooperation)-funded Project “Advisory
Services towards Restructuring and Expanding National Vocational
Training System (NVTS) with Emphasis on Informal Sector”, 2004-
20072007
• European Commission-funded India-EU Skills Development Project,
2011-2016; the Project aims at supporting the implementation of
India’s National Policy on Skills Development, National
Qualifications Framework (NQF), and set-up of a Labour Market
Information System (LMIS).
– DGE&T, NCVT, NSDC >> << Cambridge Education, Aarhus Tech
(DK), Scottish Qualifications Authority, City and Guilds (UK)
• Bilateral MoUs signed with foreign governments
– Indo-German, Indo-British, Indo-Swedish, Indo-Danish, Indo-
Singapore etc.

15. Concluding remarks
• Increasing capacity and quality of skills development and
vocational education will improve productivity in micro
enterprises, and SMEs
• Skills certification and benchmarking through NSQF and NOS
will help in participation of MSMEs in globalized jobs created
in India
• ASDP and its sub-schemes ensure skill building of rural youth,• ASDP and its sub-schemes ensure skill building of rural youth,
their job-diversification, and help them in coming out of
poverty through skills-based jobs
• NSDC’s Sector Skill Councils and ASDP both will improve
capability to reaching out skills required for informal and
unorganized sectors and/or people in informal sectors
• Who is more efficient in school-to-work smooth transition>>
ASDP or NSDC or vocational stream at high school level

16. • Thank You
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