New Delhi-October 9, 2014
After ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’, the government is expected to come up with a revised skill development policy or the ‘Skill India’ scheme by March 2015, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship Sarbananda Sonowal said on Wednesday.
“A multi-skill development programme on mission model for job creation end entrepreneurship for all socio economic classes is being worked out,” he said at the Indo-German conference on Skill Development. The new scheme is expected to move beyond the target of skilling 500 million youth by 2020 that was set by the UPA government.
“The revised policy will also endeavour to establish the international equivalent of Indian framework on skill development with the European framework. This will facilitate mobility of workforce,” said Sonowal. He also sought cooperation from the German government which runs the successful Vocational Education and Training programme.
German Ambassador Michael Steiner said the new focus on skill development and vocational education and training is set into a broader field of innovation and reforms and strengthening of MSMEs and greater involvement of private sector. Concessions in the form of tax incentives should also be extended, he added.
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