Employable Skills &
Vocational Training
Uncommon Opportunities:
Roadmap for Employment, Food & Global Security
November 21, 2004
Career Development Foundation of India
I.N.D.I.A. Trust
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Employable Skills
 50% of firms in developing and industrialized
countries report severe shortage of skilled workers.
 India’s problem is not lack of employment
opportunities but lack of employable skills.
 Skills create employment and self-employment
opportunities.
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Vocational Skills Gap
 Only 5% of India’s workforce (20-24 years) have
vocational training compared with 28% in Mexico
and 96% in Korea.
 By 2010 major labour shortages will emerge in the
industrialized nations forcing movement of both
manufacturing & service jobs to wherever the skills
are best.
 Upgrading skills essential to tap global markets
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Vocational Training in India
 4200 ITIs
 1,654 government run
 2,620 private
 Courses offered
 43 engineering & 24 non-engineering trades
 Capacity – 6.3 lakhs
 State enterprise programmes – 1.7 lakh
 Including agriculture & other – 20 lakh
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Vocational Training Deficit
Students completing 8th-9th standard
300 lakhs
Students entering 10th-11th
150 lakhs
New entrants to workforce (per year)
70 lakhs
Vocational training in engineering, agriculture &
other fields
20 lakhs
New entrants to workforce w/o training
50 lakhs
Existing unemployed youth (15-29) of which 80%
are educated up to 10th
150 lakhs
Existing workers to be trained to raise non-ag
skilled portion to 25%
350 lakhs
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Three Models
 Farm Schools in every revenue village
 Vocational Schools
 Computerized & Televised Vocational Training
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Vocational Schools
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Promote vocational institutes at block and district level
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5000 govt
50,000 private
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Conduct exams for every skill as for drivers licenses
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Certify approved training centres, e.g. BPO
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Provide scholarships & incentives for trainees
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Computer-based learning is
twice as fast @ half the cost
 Multimedia
 Interactive
 Immediate Feedback
 Self-paced learning
 Eliminates need for trained teachers
 Responds rapidly to changing skill needs
 Uniform testing
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Computerized Vocational Training
 Establish 1 lakh CVT Institutes like internet cafes
 50,000 in private sector
 50,000 training centres at engineering and arts
colleges, ITIs, polytechs, high schools, NGOs, etc.
 Partnership with industry to develop multimedia
training software
 Provide training to a minumum of 4 million students
per annum
 Government certification of courses
 Generate self-employment opportunities for 50,000
entrepreneurs
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Multimedia vocational courses
RWH
Child care
Nutritionist
Selling skills
Real estate
Law clerk
Telemarketing
Insurance agent
Quality manager
Catering
Video editing
Furniture design
Farm mgmt
Pharma rep
Textile design
Reporter
Dry cleaning
Electrical repair
Travel agent
Internet research
Graphic design
Bookkeeper
Organic farming
Interior design
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