Empowering Youth Through Skill Development in India - Role of NSDC and NSDA.
Journal Title: Journal Global Values A Peer Reviewed International Journal - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
India is “Youngest nation” in the world with 54% population under the age of 25 years. India has potential to provide skilled manpower to fill the expected shortfall in aging developed world. Youth’s aspirations can only be met by skilling them with new and demanding technologies in the era of stiff completion globally. Improved productivity through skill development needs to be complemented by economic growth and employment opportunities of young 54% population which is below 25 years of age, 62% population would be in 15-59 years age group by 2022. Average age of population in India by 2022 would be 29 years as against 40 years in USA, 46 years in Europe and 47 years in Japan. In next 20 years Labor force in industrialized countries will decrease by 4% and in India it is expected to increase by 32%. During 2005-2017 only 2.7 million net additional jobs were created in the country. Hence, entrepreneurship needs to be promoted on a very high scale. The issues Scale speed, standard and sustainability has been addressed in new skill development policy. Only 2.3% of the total workforce in India has undergone formal skill training as compared to 68% in UK, 75% in Germany, 52% in USA, 80% in Japan and 96% in South Korea. The Government of India, under the banner of Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship has started many skill development schemes through NSDA and NSDC The study has been conducted to analyze the problems and future prospective of different schemes run through NSDA and NSDC with the emphasis on skill to Indian youth. The effectiveness of the schemes has been critically studied to see the future benefit of the schemes for targeted group i.e youth. The study also highlighted the various issues and challenges for proper implementation of NSQF aligned courses. The papers also throw some light on employment opportunities to trainee’s youth after the completion of training to ensure sustainable livelihood options and how these organizations are helpful in creating self employment and wage employment to trained youth globally. National skill development agency (NSDA) National skill development corporation NSDC, Non-formal training, under-privileged groups, Appropriate Technologies
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. S. P. Chauhan, Mrs. Alamjit Batta
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