Die National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) scheint mitten in einer personellen Krise zu stecken. Nachdem CEO Dilip Chenoy und COO Atul Bhatnagar die NSDC im Oktober 2015 verlassen hatten, sind jetzt drei weitere Führungskräfte zurückgetreten.
NSDC staring at HR crisis as chiefs exit
After CEO Dilip Chenoy and COO Atul Bhatnagar left the organization in
October, three more top executives heading key verticals have
resigned.
The National Skill Development Corp. (NSDC) seems to be in the
middle of a human resource crisis.
After chief executive officer Dilip
Chenoy and chief operating officer Atul Bhatnagar left the organization in
October, three more top executives heading key verticals of NSDC have resigned -
the latest was earlier this week, according to two individuals close to the
development.
Though exits are part of the professional workplace, the
developments at NSDC have followed in the wake of Chenoy's
resignation.
NSDC, a public-private partnership body functioning under
the central government and the skill development ministry are together meant to
devise and implement the government's skilling mission, crucial in turn to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's manufacturing and job-creation programme.
In the
last two months, Gouri Gupta, head of monitoring has left NSDC followed by
Mahesh Venkateswaran, head of innovation and engagement. While Gupta was the key
executive for monitoring the skill development targets, Venkateswaran dealt with
the financial aspects of the training providers.
The latest to quit is
Bhavna Chopra, who headed the corporation's strategic project vertical and was
the main official responsible for the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri
Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY).
PMKVY, launched in 2015, aims to train 2.4
million people and has a separate budget of Rs.1,500 crore. Of the targeted 2.4
million, 1.4 million were to be trained in 2015-16 with a provision for monetary
rewards. PMKVY wanted to take people engaged in informal work into the formal
sectors by recognizing their existing knowledge base. Gupta and Chopra declined
to comment for the story, and Mint was unable to reach Venkateswaran. Jayant
Krishna, the interim chief executive of NSDC did not respond to calls or a text
message sent to him.
The developments at NSDC may affect India's skill
mission and the overall skill training outcome.
The corporation is a key
player in the government's skill development plans with the mandate to train
some 150 million people by 2022. "Since October, the NSDC is passing through a
transition phase. The ministry wants to have a bigger say and the synergy
between both the ministry and the corporation is not yet strong," said a
government official who declined to be named.
The official, however, said
that the development will have an adverse impact on the skill development target
of the government. According to official data, in the first six months of the
current financial year, NSDC has managed to achieve less than 15% of its 3.7
million skill training target. Besides, against a target of 2.4 million under
PMKVY, NSDC had achieved less than 30% in terms of training and 10% in terms of
certification as of February 2016.
A skill training partner of NSDC said
that since the high level departures, the organization is in a state of flux.
"There is no direction, no force for scaling up. May be they are settling down,"
the training provider said requesting anonymity.
But Neeti Sharma, senior
vice-president at TeamLease Services Ltd, a training and staffing company, said
that "people leaving should not impact the mission much as the organization is
intact. Now both NSDC and the skills ministry need to focus on scaling up and
measuring the outcome in order to make skill development mission a
success."
India aims to skill train some 500 million people by 2022 to
sharpen the competitiveness of its young population and provide a job-ready
manpower to industries.