Um die formale berufliche Qualifizierung für Jugendliche und Industrie attraktiver zu machen, möchte die indische Regierung private Vertragspartner von Regierungsprojekten dazu verpflichten, mindestens 30 Prozent qualifizierte Fachkräfte einzustellen. Dieser Anteil soll nach und nach erhöht werden.
Private firms executing government contracts may have to employ 30 per cent people with certified skills
In a bid to make formal skill development avenues more attractive for the
youth as well as industry, the government could make it mandatory for firms
executing government contracts to hire at least 30 per cent of employees
with certified skills.
Though about a 10th of India's workforce has some technical skills, only a
little over 2.5 per cent have any formal technical education. There are
about 12 million young entrants in the workforce each year, while skill
development and vocational training capacities are inadequate to keep
up.
"There is poor acceptance of vocational training, with industry and
academia not participating and youth not finding jobs even after passing out of
industrial training institutes," said a labour ministry official.
"Yet,
there are many informally skilled workers who don't have formal certificates but
can get the job done," the official said. "We want to encourage them to get a
certificate for the skills they already have and urge industry to use them more
effectively," he said.
The issue was discussed at a meeting with industry
representatives chaired by labour and employment minister Narendra Singh Tomar
where it was agreed that recognition of prior learnings and skills must be
upscaled.
"We want to make it mandatory for all contractors of government
projects to have at least 30 per cent workers with certified skill sets and
would like increase this proportion gradually," said an official who attended
the meeting.
Most sections of industry, largely from the manufacturing
and services sectors, have welcomed the idea as it will create greater awareness
about the demand-supply gaps in India's skilling framework.
However,
industries such as construction and real estate that carry out a large chunk of
government contracts and often deploy untrained labour, are learnt to have
expressed concerns about the proposal, said an industry official, who requested
anonymity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that India should be
known not for its scams but for its skills, while responding to the debate on
the President's address in Parliament last month. Finance minister Arun Jaitley
announced a new Skill India initiative in his July 10 budget.