India to launch a national portal with Skill India stats

Advertisement
India to launch a national portal with Skill India stats

Advertisement
  • The data for Skill India will soon be up on a national portal which the government is expected to launch on 15 July.
  • The portal will be conducive in avoiding duplication and thus decreasing the wastage of resources.
  • The government aims to make India the Skill Capital of the world.

Since the launch of Skill India in 2015, the government has been keeping a record of information on the number of skilled personnel in India. This record-keeping was set in motion by cabinet secretary PK Sinha. He conducted monthly review meetings that required all central ministers to come together and discuss how the programme was working under them.

According to an official who spoke to the Economic Times, this data collected from the Ministry of Skill Development, central ministers, states and corporates will soon be put up on a national portal. The government is expected to launch the first phase of this portal on 15 July. It is being developed by the National Skill Development Corp. (NSDC) and the World Bank.

Complimentary Tech Event
Transform talent with learning that works
Capability development is critical for businesses who want to push the envelope of innovation.Discover how business leaders are strategizing around building talent capabilities and empowering employee transformation.Know More
The portal is expected to have a detailed record of skilled personnel and specific skills across sectors, gender, social and geographical landscapes and will be used to compute the demand and supply of skilled personnel in the market. Currently, the number of skilled personnel that the portal is expected to show when launched is 10 million. However, the number might jump to 15 million once all the stakeholders get on board.

The national portal will serve two crucial purposes.

Advertisement

First, it will display the total number of skilled personnel on a real-time basis. Second, it will also be conducive in avoiding duplication of data that arises from the lack of a central point of information. This can avoid overlapping entries that makes the government spend double the amount of resources than is actually required. Thus, it will also decrease the wastage of resources.

Around 12 million youth enter the India’s workforce every year. However, a considerable section of these youngsters remain unemployed because of inadequate skill sets. Therefore, they need to be upskilled or reskilled to become capable of acquiring a job. And in continuation, upskilling and reskilling will play a significant role in increasing employment, jobs, income and growth in the country and further the government’s aim to make India the Skill Capital of the world. The data on the portal has a key role to play in all this.

The Skill India target was to train 400 million of unskilled people by 2022. However, the flagship is running far behind its target with hardly 40 million trained in four years. Around 10 million entrants are trained every year by the Skill Development ministry (6 million) and other central ministries like agriculture, textile and IT (4 million).

If all goes well with the training programs and the portal gets launched on time, it could work in the favour of the current government in this election year.
{{}}