New guidelines for public private partnership

Now, the private sector can set up institutions to provide skills to young Indians or help the government in improving the employability of those trained in public sector institutions.

Updated on: Mar 18, 2011, 18:06:20 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Now, the private sector can set up institutions to provide skills to young Indians or help the government in improving the employability of those trained in public sector institutions.

In a bid to revamp the skill management in India, the Planning Commission on Friday issued new guidelines for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in organized and unorganized employment and traditional and contemporary work.

Money will also be provided for mapping of available skills in India, setting up of state skill development missions and strengthening existing skill development institutions.

“The new guidelines will help higher participation of private sector in improving employability skills of young Indians,” said a senior plan panel official.

India has world’s largest population in the 15 to 35 age group ready to join the job market. According to different surveys, over half of those who pass out from large number of educational institutions are unemployable and have to be retrained.

The new guidelines have aimed at dealing with this issue by allowing participation of private sector in State Skill Development Missions to evaluate existing skill development programmes and frame policies for setting up new training schools.

The state governments, in consultation with the industry, will have to set up sector specific skill development councils, which have been defined as Centers of Excellence in the guidelines.

Their primary job will be to develop the curriculum, train the teachers and devise procedures for accessing skills of the youth being trained as per the market needs, the guidelines states. They will also conduct research on skills, which are expected to have demand in future job market.

Private sector can get up to Rs 50 lakh to set up new institutions to train youth and for providing expertise in form of trainers in running existing state run institutions such as Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and Polytechnics.

The commission has also provided funds for industry for conducting studies to access demand of skills in particular areas, upgrading the content accordingly and training the trainers for the same.

“This will have a consultative mechanism, with room for midcourse corrections during the implementation of the schemes,” the guidelines said.

The funds for PPP in skill development will be provided by the Planning Commission through the state governments, for which, a detailed procedure has been outlined in the guidelines.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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