290 million trained people needed by 2022
Updated: Jun 07, 2013 05:03:53pm
New Delhi, Jun 7 (KNN) The country would need about 249 to 290 million trained people by the year 2022 to address the skill gap and perhaps become the world’s largest pool of technically trained manpower, according to the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR).
The government’s think-tank IAMR said this in a research paper, while stating that the Manmohan Singh’s government’s target of providing skills to over 500 million people by 2022 was unrealistic and grossly inflated, said a report which although IAMR has not made public has been circulating in the media.
The research paper also said that the government’s target was based on a speech by late management guru C K Prahalad and that it lacked demographic analysis.
The report indicated that the target of training 500 million people by 2022 was set by the present government in 2007. Further, it was considered the key objective of the National Skill Development Policy which was approved by the cabinet in 2009.
However the IAMR which comes under the purview of the Planning Commission has negated this target as unrealistic and seriously overestimated.
The report also referred to a speech made by the Prime Minister in New York in 2010 when he said, nearly two dozen ministries and agencies have been assigned targets to train millions to achieve the ambitious task of making half a billion employable in a decade.
Dismissing those figures as impractical, IAMR is of the opinion that a sound method has to be used to estimate the skills gaps, to include a census and a sample survey.
Currently, India’s labour force is estimated at 470 million and it is assumed that it will grow much more owing to the rise in population. However, IAMR has said that the window of opportunity called the ‘Demographic Dividend’ was available to India only till 2040.
While this has raised numerous concerns over the 500 million target, IAMR considers it wise to assess both the challenge and skill gap. It calls for proper defining of skills and taking into account general academic.
According to the government’s think-tank, 290 million people need to be trained, including 100 million who must acquire at least 10 years of schooling, new labour force entrants who need vocational training and those already in the workforce that need more formal training.
Presently, less than 50 per cent of the country’s non-agricultural workforce has had 10 years of schooling.
As per the government’s ambitious targets, 150 million people need to be trained in various skills, 100 million in Labour and employment agency, 50 million in human resources development, 30 million in transport, 20 million people in rural development, 20 million in agriculture, 20 million in construction, 15 million in urban development, 15 million in micro, small and medium enterprises and 10 million in consumer affairs, finance, health, IT, textiles – which adds up to 530 million to be trained by the concerned ministries and through their affiliated agencies. (KNN)
The government’s think-tank IAMR said this in a research paper, while stating that the Manmohan Singh’s government’s target of providing skills to over 500 million people by 2022 was unrealistic and grossly inflated, said a report which although IAMR has not made public has been circulating in the media.
The research paper also said that the government’s target was based on a speech by late management guru C K Prahalad and that it lacked demographic analysis.
The report indicated that the target of training 500 million people by 2022 was set by the present government in 2007. Further, it was considered the key objective of the National Skill Development Policy which was approved by the cabinet in 2009.
However the IAMR which comes under the purview of the Planning Commission has negated this target as unrealistic and seriously overestimated.
The report also referred to a speech made by the Prime Minister in New York in 2010 when he said, nearly two dozen ministries and agencies have been assigned targets to train millions to achieve the ambitious task of making half a billion employable in a decade.
Dismissing those figures as impractical, IAMR is of the opinion that a sound method has to be used to estimate the skills gaps, to include a census and a sample survey.
Currently, India’s labour force is estimated at 470 million and it is assumed that it will grow much more owing to the rise in population. However, IAMR has said that the window of opportunity called the ‘Demographic Dividend’ was available to India only till 2040.
While this has raised numerous concerns over the 500 million target, IAMR considers it wise to assess both the challenge and skill gap. It calls for proper defining of skills and taking into account general academic.
According to the government’s think-tank, 290 million people need to be trained, including 100 million who must acquire at least 10 years of schooling, new labour force entrants who need vocational training and those already in the workforce that need more formal training.
Presently, less than 50 per cent of the country’s non-agricultural workforce has had 10 years of schooling.
As per the government’s ambitious targets, 150 million people need to be trained in various skills, 100 million in Labour and employment agency, 50 million in human resources development, 30 million in transport, 20 million people in rural development, 20 million in agriculture, 20 million in construction, 15 million in urban development, 15 million in micro, small and medium enterprises and 10 million in consumer affairs, finance, health, IT, textiles – which adds up to 530 million to be trained by the concerned ministries and through their affiliated agencies. (KNN)
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