What for ?
For Starting from 01 July 2019 , the biggest skilling (
internship ) program called “ Shreyas “
What will this program
achieve ?
# Some 3 lakh students will get apprenticeship for
6 months from July 2019
# In the first
full year, some 5 lakh students will get this training
What kind of
students are eligible ?
Non technical graduates ( BA / B Com / B Sc )
How many have
applied ?
Over 9.25 lakh students from 1,533 non-technical
universities / colleges have applied by 25 march
Will the
trainees ( apprentices ) get any stipend
?
Sure . They will get,
# Rs 6,000
per month by way of stipend, and
# Rs 1,500 per month from the Centre by way of
reimbursement
How many
Employers have shown interest in training the students ?
As of now, more than 9,000 employers have
posted requirement of more than 2 lakh vacancies, for which the students can
get considered
Have you made
any suggestions to the HRD Ministry in this regards ? Are those incorporated in
SHREYAS ?
Yes
I am happy that most of the following have been
incorporated , in varying degree .
Hopefully, rest will follow :
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# Universal
Basic Income ……………………………….[ 20 Jan 2017
]
WHAT
WOULD BE THE RIGHT APPROACH ?
* Right
approach would be : " Do not give fish to a hungry man / teach him how to
fish "
In short ,
empower them to earn their own living by teaching them " Skills " and by
gaining
" Experience " in use of those skills
Entire cost of this
" Skilling " and " Experiencing " to be
borne by the Government , till
each targeted
poor / unemployed person , either gets gainfully employed or becomes
self-employed
HOW
TO TRANSLATE THIS " SELF HELP " CONCEPT INTO PRACTICE ?
Divide the
implementation in following 3 phases
*
Empowering - 3 years ( Imparting Skills in Industrial Training
Institutes )
*
Experiencing - 3 years ( Providing experience in Ind / Commercial
Establishments )
*
Self-dependence Phase ( Working in a gainful job or as Self Employed )
WHAT
SKILLS WILL GET PROVIDED IN ITI ?
Entire range of
Manufacturing Industry related skills being currently imparted plus a
whole host of
commercial skills required by E Commerce / Fintech / Agriculture Processing
/ Payment
Banks / Service Sector / BPO / Telecom and other emerging sectors
HOW
SHALL WE MOTIVATE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH TO JOIN ITIs ?
* Each trainee will
receive Rs 1000 pm ( for course duration of 3 years )
This
amount will get deposited in Jan Dhan bank account of trainee ( DBT )
HOW
CAN WE GET PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN THIS PHASE ?
* If a Private firm
or individual comes forward to set up such a Training Institute ,
# Treat it as an Infrastructure SPV
# No questions asked as to the source of funds for setting up such ITI
{ a kind of Amnesty Scheme to convert Black Money into White Money
}
# A government grant of Rs 1,000 pm per trainee to such SPV ( DBT in Bank
A/C )
If this is done ,
expect 10,000 SPVs to come up within one year and 10 million youth to
get trained
each year !
HOW
CAN WE GET INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS TO PROVIDE
EXPERIENCE
TO TRAINEES PASSING OUT OF ITIs ?
* Amend
Apprenticeship Act
* Allow all
Industrial and Commercial Establishments to engage ANY NUMBER of
apprentices ( without upper limit ) , for a period of 3 years
* Starting
stipend = Min of Semi-Skilled wages ( currently , approx Rs 6,000 pm )
* Annual
Increment = 5 %
*
Establishment to pay 75 % of stipend
* Government
to pay 25 % of stipend ( DBT into Jan Dhan account of the Apprentice )
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#
Discovering
the Obvious ? …………………………………………..[ 30 Nov 2017
]
# Revise Apprenticeship Act to enable employers to engage ANY NUMBER of ( eligible ) youth as apprentices and
allow
employers to devise “ Training Structure “ as per their needs
# An eligible youth
can serve his apprenticeship period with only one employer
#
A person who has successfully completed his apprenticeship
cannot be accepted as apprentice , a second time , in same
or any other company
# Remove :
Ø concept of 5
different “ categories “ of
apprentices
Ø concept of “ Shop-floor Trades “ for engaging
Apprentices
> concept of “ Trade-wise Ratios “ of apprentices
Ø distinction between
“ Shop floor “ and “ Office “ , and just say “ Work Place “
Ø the stipulation
concerning “ different years of training for different trades “ .
Just make all training for 4 years
Ø the concept of “
Contract Approval “ by Apprentice Advisor
# Fix stipends
payable to apprentices as follows :
Starting Stipend…………….. Minimum wage as per Min Wage Act
Annual Increase……………… Linked to rise in CPI
# Reimbursement
of Training Cost incurred by the Employers
25 % of the Stipend cost to be borne by the Central
Government and this amount to be transferred to the Jan Dhan Account of the
concerned apprentice ( as DBT )
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#
No
mere Relief : A Game Changer …………………[
20 Dec
2017 ]
# Allow MSMEs to
engage Apprentices under the recently revised Skills Development
Regulations / Apprentice Act
# For them , remove the upper limit ( of Apprentices )
which is maximum of 10 % of
employee strength
# Let them engage Apprentices up to 100 % of their existing employees
# Let them keep these trainees
for 3 years under " Retail Establishment Trainee
Scheme "
# Let the stipend be 100 % ( instead of currently prescribed 60-70-80
% ) of semi
Skilled Minimum wages
( Minimum Semi Skilled Wages are approx
Rs 6,000 per month - so Shopkeeper need
to pay Rs 6000 pm )
# Concerned State Governments to subsidize 50 % of this stipend (so,
Shopkeeper's
burden to be Rs 3,000 pm )
[ Stipend Subsidy does not violate WTO ! ]
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#
Of
Interns and Apprentices …………………………[
07 Jan
2018 ]
But , out of some 12
million youth who join the workforce ( - join the ranks of
unemployed ? ) , graduates constitute only 3.5 million . Rest 8.5 million are undergraduates or just 10th Standard (
pass or fail )
If the Government can motivate the employers at large ( - and
not just Start Ups ) to hire these 8.5
million as “Apprentices “
, without burdening them with minimum wages , there is a good
chance that they will get hired
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# Organizing
the Unorganized ……………………………………[ 04 Feb 2019
]
There are around 15,000 skill training centres
in the country right now, which are inadequate for India’s size
· We need to train at
least 2
crore people
every year, but right now we’re training only 1.05 crore. We
need to double our capacity
· At Rs 3 cr / centre , we need Rs 45,000 cr to construct additional 15,000 centres
, to be able to train 2 cr youth / year . It will take
years to construct these centres , even if the required funds were available (
- which is not ! )
· To bypass both of these limitations , I
suggest :
# Transform millions of MSME into “ Skill Training Centres “
# Deliver
online Training Courses for development of various skills through the
Computer
provided by the Labor Ministry for implementation of MaanDhan
Scheme
# Some
of these may be VR based training, requiring VR headsets ( to be provided
FREE
to MSME by this Ministry ) . These can be used not only by the apprentices
but
also by the MSME’s own workers
# As
an incentive / motivation for the MSME to undertake to train at least 2
apprentices
per year ( under the Apprentice Act ) , following may be considered
:
+ Government
subsidizing the stipend payable to the trainees by 50 %
+ No
obligation to absorb the trainees after completion of training
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#
Congratulations
, Anilbhai Naik ………………………………………[ 08 Feb 2019
]
* Convert every
existing establishment ( factory / office / shop / open yard ) into
a Training Centre
·
Remove all restrictions as outlined in my above-mentioned
suggestions
·
Enable the unemployed youth ( 12 million / year ) to acquire
online training from their homes , using government-giftedVR headsets [ much cheaper than
granting Unemployment Allowance of Rs 3000 pm ( Rajasthan ) / Rs 1000 ( Andhra
) / many other States )
· Subsidize Start Ups
( operating in the field of online Education ) to develop VR based training modules
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Dear Shri Javadekarji,
Today’s Times of India carries
following report about Shreyas :
The
Apprentice : Modi govt’s job trump card
From a mere “ trump card “ , you
can turn it into an entire “ trump pack “ by implementing :
What
will win the War ? ……………….
[
26 March 2019 ]
By doling out Rs 3.6 Lakh*Crore per
year ( year after year ) on their just announced NYAY Scheme, Congress would
succeed in keeping 5 Crore families into “ perpetual poverty “
Now imagine this :
# Government
gives away ( FREE ) , AR/VR headsets , each costing Rs 5,000 , to ONE crore (
10 million ) youth ,
each year . That is a recurring cost of Rs
5,000 crore per year
# By spending
just Rs 5,000 per year ( per unemployed youth ) as against Rs 72,000 per family
, you will enable
that youth to start earning Rs 20,000 / month (
by getting a job / freelancing ) and pull himself out of poverty !
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03 March 2019
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