Job program sees Nagaland’s placement highest since 2013

‘Skills and updated skills, not age, required for industry challenge’ 

EMN
Dimapur, May 9

Nagaland has registered for itself the highest number of job placements from a single capacity-building program in three years. Starting out with 809 placements in 2013 through the skill development and entrepreneurship program of the central government, this year saw a jump all the way to 1,054 persons finding jobs.
A highlight of the lesson that the central government hopes to push across is that persons need to have to be “skilled” first, and no other consideration else, if they are to meet the requirements of industry and the fast-changing economic climate.
Further, the government has reminded that in the current industry, even the skills of professionals must have to be updated, or ‘reskilled’ if they are to stay relevant for the competition. Nagaland has an unaccounted number of unemployed persons (including a section of so-called “educated” employed); the employment registry also states an unconfirmed 70,000-75, 000 unemployed persons. So far, about 2, 819 persons in total have found placements in three years.
It is true that the number might not be significant in comparison to even the listed registered unemployed. But the jump reflects how government programs can impact the welfare of citizens positively if implemented with sincerity.
The information provided by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy recently to the Lok Sabha on May 4 shows that no everyone that reports for trainings emerge successful. For instance, 969 persons trained but only 809 found job placements in 2013-2014.
Only Arunachal Pradesh seems to either be missing out or that the employed: industry ratio is significantly high; another possible reason could be that the skill-development program was not implemented.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the government set up the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) as a public-private partnership to promote private training providers to set up skill development centers across the country.
‘Private training providers are assisted financially in the form of loan to set up skill development centers across the Country,’ he said. Further, opening of new such centers is a continuous process, he said.

The minister also said that the government had launched the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) in 2015. The program is a reward based, demand-driven scheme that aims to bring benefit to 24 lakh persons with training and skill certification.
The trainees are given monetary rewards under the scheme after successful completion of the skill training. The NSDC is the implementing agency for PMKVY. The training partners are incentivized under the scheme to facilitate employment of youth trained in their centers under the scheme.
The minister added that the common norms approved by the government for skill development schemes also has provisions of incentivizing training providers to facilitate employment of youths and tracking the trainees after they complete training.

Skills for the raw, ‘re-skilling’ for the skilled
Also, Rudy said that the India targets training 402.87 million persons by 2022. This includes 104.62 million new entrants to the existing workforce in the country who need to be “skilled” to meet industry requirement.
In addition 298.25 million of existing workforce needs to be “reskilled” or “upskilled,” the union minister said. Aiding the movement in said direction is the PMKVY program. The program is the flagship outcome-based skill training scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship to enable and mobilize a large number of youth to take up outcome based skill training and earn their livelihood.
As on April 25, 2016, 17.93 lakh candidates have been enrolled while 17.58 lakh have completed training, he told the Lok Sabha. Rajiv Pratap Rudy added that the Skill India Mission was launched with the objective to ‘scale up skilling with standards and speed in the country.’ To achieve this objective, the ministry launched the PMKVY to enable and mobilize a large number of Indian youth to take up skill training to become employable.