Indische Regierung überarbeitet Politik zur Kompetenzentwicklung

India will revise its national skill development policy of 2009 so that schemes of different ministries and portions of the Rs.10,000 crore earmarked to encourage entrepreneurship are routed through the newly formed skills ministry.

The ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship has started consulting 18 government departments who are part of the skill mission to converge some of their programmes and sync the policy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call of make in India.

"We have initiated the process to revise the national policy on skill development, 2009. Comments are being obtained from the various ministries.... Once these comments are received, a draft policy will be placed on the website of the ministry to invite comments from the public and other stakeholders," skills minister Sarbananda Sonowal told reporters.

Skill development is a focus area of the National Democratic Alliance government, Sonowal said, and his ministry will be an "untiring partner in fulfilling the vision" of Modi.

Modi had in his maiden Independence Day speech invited companies across the world to make their products in India and create jobs in the labour-intensive manufacturing sectors.

The ministry has conducted a few rounds of consultations with the different departments since 3 September, skills secretary Sunil Arora said, adding that the revised policy should be ready by the end of December. Although he did not give details on whether the government is going to scale up its 2009 target of providing vocational training to 500 million people by 2022, he said the target was part of the inter-ministerial consultation.

India's national budget has provided Rs.10,000 crore for entrepreneurship and it is of little concern whether the skills ministry or the small enterprises ministry utilizes the funds, Arora said.

"We are all working towards the common goal of skilling india and fostering entrepreneurship," he said.

The 2009 policy led to the setting up of the National Skill Development Corporation as a public-private-partnership project, and the then prime minister Manmohan Singh brought in S. Ramadorai, the then vice-chairman of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, to be his skill adviser.

Separately, to coincide with Modi's make in India campaign, the rural development ministry said it will make changes to the national rural livelihood mission.

It had been running skill development courses for a decade, which were mainly aimed at wage employment, said a ministry official who declined to be named.

"There was no quality assurance, no question of career progression or retention. There was only emphasis on placement," the official said. "We want to make this placement programme as not only addressing the domestic industry. We want to make sure that our skilled youth also fulfil the skilled manpower demand abroad as well. To do this we want to benchmark the training programmes to international standards. Our training programmes will be addressing global companies and we want our people to be placed globally across the world."

The ministry had identified the US, Russia, China, Japan, the Middle East and Spain for this.

The government was looking at branding the programme through the Rural India Skills Emblem, which will act like the Bureau of Indian Standards certification that will hallmark the skilled workers from our country, the official said.

"This will be recognized globally. It's a kind of certification which will be done by (the rural development) ministry identified empanelled bodies, which will certify the personal background of the person, not only his skill-set," the official said. Candidates will be trained in the basics in English and information technology that will equip them to deal with the challenges of working in advanced economies, he said.

Instead of opening training centres directly, the programmes will be implemented in partnership with private firms, the official said. The ministry aims to open 1,500-2,000 centres in the next two years and the entire cost of the programme is likely to be Rs.1,500 crore to Rs.2,000 crore a year, well within the budget allocation of the rural livelihood mission, which was Rs.4,000 crore, he said.