MAKING INDIANS EMPLOYABLE

16 Aug 2011

MAKING  INDIANS  EMPLOYABLE

Mandate given to NSDC ( National Skills Development Corporation ) is to train 500 million Indian youth, to make them employable.

Of these, 150 million to be trained by 2020.

That is nearly 15 million per year – a tough target.

So NSDC turned to TeamLease Services Pvt Ltd for help, who will open 1349 multi-skill development centers to train 1.8 million school drop-outs in remote areas over the next 10 years.

Considering that India’s high school drop-out rate is almost 56 % , this is good news.

Turning to private coaching classes for help is no doubt, a good idea.

What NSDC might want to seriously consider is to request India’s reputed Corporate (Tata / Mahindra / L&T / Birla etc) to start 10,000 skill development centers , in their own interest.

Also, how about handing over the management of thousands of existing ITI (Industrial Training Institutes) run by the State Governments, to these corporate ?

With regards

HEMEN  PAREKH