Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Modi’s mission to impart skills training is great' that was published in Newsband

Modi’s mission to impart skills training is great

Only 10% of Indian population has undergone vocational training, and even among those who have, the type of training is not the sort of formal skilling that employers seek – the majority had either acquired a hereditary skill or learned on the job. Just 2.2 per cent in all had received formal vocational training. In comparison, 75 per cent of the workforce in Germany and 80 per cent in Japan have received formal skills training. Even among the BRICS countries, India lags behind – nearly half the Chinese workforce, for example, is skilled. Fewer than one in ten Indians is a graduate,

The Narendra Modi government has made skills and jobs one of its focus areas from the beginning of its term. The Prime Minister launched an ambitious mission to impart skills training to 40 crore people by 2022, and the new government has a dedicated Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Job creation has not kept pace with India’s demographic momentum, and that will in the coming days pose a problem for a skilled workforce.

In India the major problem is the tag "degree". People just aspire to have a degree rather than having thorough knowledge of the concerned subject. Government on its part is adding to this problem by running many schemes to increase the overall education percentage, just to show the improvement in record but it is concerned very little about the quality education. It is the quality which matters the most than the quantity of people to whom it has been imparted.

Young India is having lot of potential. But Indian government specially is concentrating on youngsters from branded oganizations and institutions. For example, Modi visited IITs and other top level institutions but he never visited a college from rural area where there are no basic facilities like lab, sports ground, skilled and experienced staff. If this is the case, how can India's young brigade improve itself? Government provides funds to Institutions but they don't come to ask whether they spent it on same reason or on management's own needs. Modi’s ideas and dreams are good and will take India to the top position but he should consider youngsters from all level.

Today the technical colleges of our country are creating the "factory of unemployed". The main purpose of these institutes is to provide quantitative education not qualitative education. Other demerits of these institutions is that their course fee is very high, which can't be affordable for financially weak students. Only skilled and efficient worker can give his contribution in the way of improvement of social and economical condition.

Training is essential for both skilled and non-skilled workers for effective task completion. Moreover, in a clamour for professional education, humanities and social sciences are being grossly neglected and consequently. There has been an erosion in social and moral behavior of the younger generation. Sensitivity on social issues has not been shown by most youngsters which is not a healthy sign for flourishing of democracy.