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GOI to Expand Capacity of 12000 Industrial Training Institutes : New Hon’ble Minister Bandaru Dattatreya at CII’s India Australia Skills Summit
Nov 11, 2014

India and Australia collaborate on Skills Development to enable the 25% of total employable international workforce projected to be from India 

Shri. Bandaru Dattatreya, on taking charge as the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Government of India along with Mr. Ian Macfarlane, Australian Minister for Industry launched the  the 3rd India- Australia Skills Conference. This is an initiative of the Australia India Education Council in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The inaugural was attended by Mr. Satish Jamdar, Chairman, CII-AA Sub Committee and MD Blue Star limited; Mr. Alok Kumar, Director General of Employment and Training, GOI; Mr. Dilip Chenoy, CEO and MD NSDC; Ms. Megan Lilly, Director Education, Australian Industry Group and Mr. Mark Pierce , Australian Counsel General to Mumbai.

Shri. Bandaru Dattatreya, has been given the charge of MoLE just 2 day days ago and this was his first official international engagement.  He applauded the effort of the Australian Minister, Mr. Macfarlane by personally coming to Mumbai and giving this initiative the impetus it deserves. He welcomed the 100 member Australian skills Business Delegation. He highlighted his ministry’s initiatives on Skills and reiterated that Skill development is in the centre stage as per the vision of our Prime Minister, Shri Modi and the current government.  He stated that with India going to add 10 million people to the work force each year, for next 15 years who would need to be skilled and employed. In addition to this, skilling of the existing work force of 470 million of which only 10% have received formal or informal training, is an enormous task going forward. He mentioned that training conducted by companies has emerged to produce competitive workforce required by the industry and also acknowledged their role in apprentice training. He informed that the ministry has launched a scheme for Flexi MoUs between industry and industrial training institutes which would lead to a minimum of 80% of placement in the industry.

Mr. Ian Macfarlane, Australian Minister for Industry stated that the fact that this is the 3rd edition of the India- Australia Skills Conference, is the testament of the commitment that both the countries have in collaborating in skills. He pointed out that by 2020, 25% of the total international manpower employed will be Indian and hence it is the most opportune time to bring vocational training in India to an International standard for higher mobility. He further announced new enhanced trainer and assessor courses recognizing high quality training and trainer need known as Future Unlimited Training and Assessment Courses pioneered in India. The courses will be launched in three formats.

 Mr. Satish Jamdar, Chairman, CII-AA Sub Committee and MD Blue Star limited reiterated the support and commitment of CII for the India- Australia Skills initiative. This is in continuation with the initial efforts where CII took a skills business delegation to Australia in year 2012 . He mentioned that the 7 Sector Skills Councils promoted by CII have shown keenness to learn and adapt best practices from Australian Industry Skills Council. CII also looks forward to working with Australian training partners to collaborate in setting up of training centres in India.

Mr Alok Kumar, I.A.S, Director General of Employment &Training & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, and Government of India speaking about the department mentioned that DGET, Ministry for Labour and Employment handles Vocational, Apprenticeship and Modular Employable Schemes (MES) along with public employment service in India. The department has a National Council for Vocational Training chaired by Minister for Labour and Employment with participation of central and state governments and industry which is a largest tripartite for policy frame work development. He mentioned about departments flagship programme of craftsman training scheme for trade level vocational training with network of 12000 industrial training institutes with sitting capacity of 1.6 million, apprenticeship programme has a capacity of 0.4 million and MES programme 1.1 Million. He added that numbers are further expanding with focus on training for several services but core strength is training for manufacturing. The department has setup 11 mentor councils to look over the courses and realign them with industry needs as the focus is on quality and relevance which is the key going forward with expansion. Attracting youth to vocation training is big task for which the employment exchange is being revamped to career counselling canters to address the needs of the students. With partnership with Australia hope our complementary strength and needs comes handy, he added.

Mr Dilip Chenoy, CEO & Managing Director, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) & Co-Chair, AIEC Skills Working Group speaking at the summit mentioned that from the summit the takeaways are expected by collaboration demonstrated in three areas like Greater Australian Presence in the skills space in India, Intense cooperation and collaboration between standard and setting originations to assure people trained in India and Australia are amongst the best and through cooperation and collaboration which improve ability to win medals at World Skills Competition. A testimony to this is the 11 MoUs signed between Australian and Indian partners in Skills.

The conference was in continuation to the CII’s 6th Global Summit on Skill Development and saw speakers and delegates from Japan, South Korea, Canada, Germany, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Australia and many more.

11 November 2014

Mumbai

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