Food processing sector will need 17.8 million skilled workers by 2022
Updated: Dec 13, 2013 05:07:29pm
New Delhi, Dec 13 (KNN) The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has predicted that the food processing sector would require 17.8 million skilled workers by the year 2022.
The projected requirement has been made based on reports of skill gap analysis studies on priority sectors of the economy, commissioned by the NSDC, said Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Charan Das Mahant in the Rajya Sabha today.
On the money disbursed for the food processing sector, “The Ministry has released an amount of Rs. 184.68 crore during 2012-13 and Rs 8.99 crore during 2013-14 (upto 30.11.2013) to the State/ UT Governments under the scheme of National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP).
“Under the scheme, State/ UT Governments are empowered to utilize funds not exceeding 20 per cent of total NMFP allocations of the respective State/ UT in a year on the component of Human Resource Development. State Governments have been requested by the Ministry to utilize fifty percent (50 per cent) of HRD allocations under NMFP for skill development,” official data said.
The Ministry under its 11th Plan scheme for Technology Upgradation/Establishment/ Modernization of Food Processing Industries, provides grant-in-aid for setting up of food processing units at the rate of 25 per cent of the cost of Plant and Machinery and Technical Civil Works subject to a maximum of Rs 50 lakhs in general areas and at 33.33 per cent subject to a maximum of Rs 75 lakhs in difficult areas such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and North-Eastern States, A&N Islands, Lakshadweep and ITDP areas.
This Scheme has been subsumed in the newly launched Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) during 12th Plan (with effect from 1.4.2012) to be implemented through States/UTs. (KNN/ES)
The projected requirement has been made based on reports of skill gap analysis studies on priority sectors of the economy, commissioned by the NSDC, said Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Charan Das Mahant in the Rajya Sabha today.
On the money disbursed for the food processing sector, “The Ministry has released an amount of Rs. 184.68 crore during 2012-13 and Rs 8.99 crore during 2013-14 (upto 30.11.2013) to the State/ UT Governments under the scheme of National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP).
“Under the scheme, State/ UT Governments are empowered to utilize funds not exceeding 20 per cent of total NMFP allocations of the respective State/ UT in a year on the component of Human Resource Development. State Governments have been requested by the Ministry to utilize fifty percent (50 per cent) of HRD allocations under NMFP for skill development,” official data said.
The Ministry under its 11th Plan scheme for Technology Upgradation/Establishment/ Modernization of Food Processing Industries, provides grant-in-aid for setting up of food processing units at the rate of 25 per cent of the cost of Plant and Machinery and Technical Civil Works subject to a maximum of Rs 50 lakhs in general areas and at 33.33 per cent subject to a maximum of Rs 75 lakhs in difficult areas such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and North-Eastern States, A&N Islands, Lakshadweep and ITDP areas.
This Scheme has been subsumed in the newly launched Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) during 12th Plan (with effect from 1.4.2012) to be implemented through States/UTs. (KNN/ES)
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