Skill Competitions: Collaboration with the industry to make vocational training aspirational for the youth in India
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In less than a fortnight, the real makers of India would compete at the world’s biggest skill competition – World Skills Kazan 2019. Scheduled from 22nd to 27th August, the event will host competitions in 56 skills where more 1,500 competitors from 60 countries will participate to win laurels for their respective countries. The event includes competitions in bricklaying, beauty therapy, mobile robotics, cooking, painting and decorating among others.
For the first time, India will be participating in as many as 44 skills. In 2011, when National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) began leading India’s participation at WorldSkills, the country participated in 3 skills and unfortunately, won in none, finished 39th among 48 countries. 2015 saw the participation increased to 27 skills ending with a more promising result – 8 Medallions of Excellence. The last edition of WorldSkills in October 2017 brought out India’s best performance so far – 1 silver, 1 bronze and 9 Medallions of Excellence. Among the 56 countries, India stood 19th at this event. How did India progress so swiftly on the leaders board? From winning no medals in 2011, how did India become the proud winner one silver, one bronze and 9 Medallions of Excellence in 2017?
With the dedicated commitment of the government and support from corporates and academic institutions alike, the second edition of IndiaSkills in 2018 saw participants from all over the country – from Jammu Kashmir to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, from Gujrat to Tripura. More than 50,000 people registered for IndiaSkills 2018. More than 500 skill competitions were held at district, state, regional and national level. Out of those thousands, 48 finalists have been selected to represent India at World Skills Kazan 2019.
Over 100 corporates including Maruti Suzuki, Festo, Saint Gobain to Larsen & Toubro, Raymond, Mahindra have become a part of the IndiaSkills journey. From providing infrastructure, training facilities, knowledge expertise to supporting the competitors and team at every step, the corporates have become an essential part of the WorldSkills India journey.
As we march on, once again with confidence and faith, towards the final step of the WorldSkills journey, we are sure our skill champions would bring home laurels, pride and respect.
To watch the journey of WorldSkills India,
watch https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=sGoTDL12xb0&t=5s
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However, significantly large number of employers have cited lack of trained manpower as one of the major concerns for their growth aspirations. In sectors like telecom, capital goods or defence equipment manufacturing, training infrastructure is negligible. India's annual vocational and skills training capacity is only 4.4 million for a 500 million workforce as against 90 million in China and11 million in USA. Skill India Mission aims to bridge this gap of demand and supply.
While India's economy is transitioning towards a modern skills-based manufacturing and services based economy, away from being rural and agrarian, many are being left behind. This divide would further increase with the fourth industrial revolution knocking at our doors, where technological disruption like Internet of Things, automation, 3D printing, robotics, etc. would make certain jobs disappear while at the same time creating new jobs with requirement of higher order skills.
With 65 per cent population being young, India is grappling with twin challenge of skilling millions of youth and employment generation. As per projections, over 109 million incremental people will be required in India alone, across 24 key sectors by the year 2022. Yet, only 4.69 per cent of the Indian population has undergone formal skill training. India still has the age old tradition of learning on the job through informal networks and needs to gravitate towards a formal system for rapid improvement in productivity through use of latest technology.
We have to accommodate the annual 18 million Indian youth entering the workforce for the first time during the next decade and a half. Against this need, at present only 5.5 million additional organised sector jobs a year are being created which is certainly not enough. Unless the skill programme of the country is based on the demography, geography, industry growth, migration of internal and international labour, India's demographic dividend would certainly become a demographic nightmare. We cannot expect to get radically different results if we do not make fundamental changes in our approach for policy planning and processes. This indeed calls for an urgent re-engineering of the skill ecosystem and actions on following identified areas:
There needs to be an integrated effort towards data updation and frequency of data collection at the national level and percolate down to the states through the State Skill Development Mission. For continuous data analytics on employment by industry, skills and geography, a Labour Market Monitor is needed that would map short term labour market trends by collecting, analyzing and disseminating data on vacancies and registered job seekers. Multilingual dictionary of occupations and skills is needed to enhance transparency of vacancy information to improve matching between job seekers and vacancies. This would also remove the differential taxonomy of calling various job roles.
In several developed and developing countries like Germany, Korea, Brazil, industry is a proactive partner in skill development. Although the Sector Skill Councils are set up to develop national standards in collaboration with the industry, training is not driven by the employers. While the large conglomerates have their own training institutions, MSME clusters should be provided fiscal incentives and soft loans to set up Training Centres that would cater to collective training requirements of establishments in the cluster. This would also bring down the cost of training and re-training for each company. It is also critical to assess skill premium against industry productivity for industry to differentiate between certified and non-certified workforce. In a country, where 93 per cent of the industry is in the unorganized sector, it is important that SSCs in collaboration with industry bodies first sensitise the employers on the importance of the occupational standards, job roles and certification.
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The first ever CII WorkSkill Competition was organized in 1989 at the Advanced Training Institute, Dasnagar, Howrah. With overwhelming response, CII institutionalized the WorkSkills Competitions as a major event.
CII WorkSkill Competitions are now held every year. These competitions are organised in two stages, one at the regional level and one at the national level with two main categories for the participants – above 22 years and below 22 years.
Entering its 30th year, the WorkSkills Competition saw heartening response last year with approximately 700 competitors from 55 companies and training institutes participating in more than 35 trades at the regional and national level.
WorldSkills is the flagship event of the Amsterdam based not-for-profit organization WorldSkills International and is held every two years. In 2007, India joined the WorldSkills International Organization as its 48th member.
CII has played a pioneering role in the WorldSkills International Competitions. CII believes that the WorldSkills Competitions positively impact the economic and social well-being of people from all sections of society through improving traditional trade and craft skills along with latest technology.
CII has been supporting the NSDC initiative and conducts competitions in the Manufacturing and Engineering and Social Service Skills for the WorldSkill International Competitions since 2007.
Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) along with CII hosted its first-ever State Skills Competition 2018-“Naipunya”. CII was the Execution Partner.
The Andhra Pradesh state skill competition “Naipunya” took place in four different clusters from which the final participants were selected after screening for the final state level competitions
The winners from the clusters participated in the state level competition between 10-11 May 2018. A total of 165 competitors participated in the competition in 26 trades. After an exciting round, 8 candidates were selected for the national level in 6 different skills
The winners would stand a chance to compete in the Regional and National rounds of the IndiaSkills Competition in 2018. The winners of India Skills 2018 will then get a chance to compete in the WorldSkills Competition to be held in Kazan, Russia in 2019. The CII skill competitions endeavor to transform the skill landscape of India by promoting skill excellence among talented Indian youth. They provide youth the opportunity to participate in national and international skill competitions, thereby placing India firmly on the global skills map.
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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OPINION : 09/09/2019 : 1901.
SUB : Skill Competitions: Collaboration with the industry to make vocational training aspirational for the youth in India
REF : Skill Competitions : 16 Aug 2019
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Did you ever think a plumber could represent India? A carpenter, an electrician or a welder could bring the nation a medal? Or perhaps, an autobody repairer or car painter could position India at a global pedestal?
In less than a fortnight, the real makers of India would compete at the world’s biggest skill competition – World Skills Kazan 2019. Scheduled from 22nd to 27th August, the event will host competitions in 56 skills where more 1,500 competitors from 60 countries will participate to win laurels for their respective countries. The event includes competitions in bricklaying, beauty therapy, mobile robotics, cooking, painting and decorating among others.
For the first time, India will be participating in as many as 44 skills. In 2011, when National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) began leading India’s participation at WorldSkills, the country participated in 3 skills and unfortunately, won in none, finished 39th among 48 countries. 2015 saw the participation increased to 27 skills ending with a more promising result – 8 Medallions of Excellence. The last edition of WorldSkills in October 2017 brought out India’s best performance so far – 1 silver, 1 bronze and 9 Medallions of Excellence. Among the 56 countries, India stood 19th at this event. How did India progress so swiftly on the leaders board? From winning no medals in 2011, how did India become the proud winner one silver, one bronze and 9 Medallions of Excellence in 2017?
2. Role of Industry and Government :
The progression of Team India’s performance is a shining example of fruitful collaboration between industry, government and academic institutions. To discover the talent from the very grassroots of the country, the Government of India initiated IndiaSkills – skill competitions held at district, state, regional and national level. The first ever IndiaSkills was inaugurated by former President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2016. Close to 50 leading corporates came forward to support the initiative and paved the way for India to imprint its presence at the international front during WorldSkills 2017.
With the dedicated commitment of the government and support from corporates and academic institutions alike, the second edition of IndiaSkills in 2018 saw participants from all over the country – from Jammu Kashmir to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, from Gujrat to Tripura. More than 50,000 people registered for IndiaSkills 2018. More than 500 skill competitions were held at district, state, regional and national level. Out of those thousands, 48 finalists have been selected to represent India at World Skills Kazan 2019.
Over 100 corporates including Maruti Suzuki, Festo, Saint Gobain to Larsen & Toubro, Raymond, Mahindra have become a part of the IndiaSkills journey. From providing infrastructure, training facilities, knowledge expertise to supporting the competitors and team at every step, the corporates have become an essential part of the WorldSkills India journey.
3. Industry Leaders Guide the Way :
India with over 1.3 billion population is among the youngest country in the world. While China who is known for its manufacturing capacity, Germany for its automobile sector, India would soon be known and acknowledged for its human resource. With the demographic dividend and the sheer qualities possessed by the workforce in the country, India is bound to become the skill capital of the world. However, this is possible only through the collaborative efforts of industry, government and the academic institutions. And, undoubtedly it needs to go beyond corporate social responsibility.
Collaborating with WorldSkills India empowers the corporates to build global manpower and benchmark their standards with international norms. As they search for means to increase their efficiency and productivity, WorldSkills provides them with exceptional talent who have gained international exposure, competed with their peers across the world and are quick to adapt and learn new technologies. Many corporates are also hiring the winners and participants straight after the competitions as they realize the immense potential of this young brigade.As we march on, once again with confidence and faith, towards the final step of the WorldSkills journey, we are sure our skill champions would bring home laurels, pride and respect.
To watch the journey of WorldSkills India,
watch https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=sGoTDL12xb0&t=5s
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NOTE : Skilling for the Future :
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1. INTRODUCTION :
Prime Minister Modi shares the dreams and aspirations of a billion plus people of the country "to make India a global economic leader". To make this dream a reality, Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities, Startup India and Swachh Bharat programmes, among others, have been launched by the government.
Prime Minister Modi shares the dreams and aspirations of a billion plus people of the country "to make India a global economic leader". To make this dream a reality, Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities, Startup India and Swachh Bharat programmes, among others, have been launched by the government. The recent analysis of the Sixth Economic Census 2005-2013 highlights that manufacturing has employed over 30 million people, compared with 27 million by retail in this period and has the potential to contribute 25 per cent to the GDP and create 100 million jobs by 2022. Other occupations like transport, warehousing, hotels and eateries, healthcare and education have emerged as other large employers.However, significantly large number of employers have cited lack of trained manpower as one of the major concerns for their growth aspirations. In sectors like telecom, capital goods or defence equipment manufacturing, training infrastructure is negligible. India's annual vocational and skills training capacity is only 4.4 million for a 500 million workforce as against 90 million in China and11 million in USA. Skill India Mission aims to bridge this gap of demand and supply.
While India's economy is transitioning towards a modern skills-based manufacturing and services based economy, away from being rural and agrarian, many are being left behind. This divide would further increase with the fourth industrial revolution knocking at our doors, where technological disruption like Internet of Things, automation, 3D printing, robotics, etc. would make certain jobs disappear while at the same time creating new jobs with requirement of higher order skills.
With 65 per cent population being young, India is grappling with twin challenge of skilling millions of youth and employment generation. As per projections, over 109 million incremental people will be required in India alone, across 24 key sectors by the year 2022. Yet, only 4.69 per cent of the Indian population has undergone formal skill training. India still has the age old tradition of learning on the job through informal networks and needs to gravitate towards a formal system for rapid improvement in productivity through use of latest technology.
We have to accommodate the annual 18 million Indian youth entering the workforce for the first time during the next decade and a half. Against this need, at present only 5.5 million additional organised sector jobs a year are being created which is certainly not enough. Unless the skill programme of the country is based on the demography, geography, industry growth, migration of internal and international labour, India's demographic dividend would certainly become a demographic nightmare. We cannot expect to get radically different results if we do not make fundamental changes in our approach for policy planning and processes. This indeed calls for an urgent re-engineering of the skill ecosystem and actions on following identified areas:
2. Matching youth aspirations :
Skill development and VET have never been aspirational for our country. To achieve the PM's vision, the fundamental requirement is creating an ecosystem which assigns dignity to vocational education and skill. The National Skills Policy 2015 proposes to link skill development in at least 1 school out of 4 in next 5 years from class nine onwards providing seamless integration of vocational training in formal education. Both the government and the industry need to revisit the recruitment criteria and move away from the degree bias. A massive campaign is required to bring in the mind set shift to make vocational education and technical training as a preferred career choice amongst the youth.
3. Transition from agrarian society to urbanised society :
The Economic Survey of India data from 2001-2012 shows that although 50 per cent of employment was in agriculture sector, the per income capita rise was minuscule compared to manufacturing and services sector. Projection shows that the disparity will grow dramatically across sectors by 2022 where agriculture per capita income ratio would be 5.4X when compared to manufacturing which would be at 7.7 X and services at 15.7X. It is imperative that we shift employment from agriculture in rural areas to manufacturing and services. In this respect we must follow what China has done in terms of developing new urban centers across the country. This will help in arresting migration from rural areas to already choked metros.
4. Data mining and analytics to assess jobs in formal sector :
The biggest problem before Skill India is the data, its accuracy and reliability!! Information on the demand for workers in specific occupations and the changing content of these occupations has to be developed using data from several sources. Currently, the baseline data on occupations is usually gathered along with other demographic and labour market data when a general census of the population is conducted. This basic data is then projected to represent the current labour market situation using the industry and occupational data available from household based labour force surveys and/or industry based establishment surveys. This data is not sufficient to provide the realistic employment scenario.
Alternately EPFO, ESIC and other official statistics on government employees provide critical data on formal employment. This data can provide authentic information on the sectors/industries that are growing and also indicate the geographic location to help in planning for skill development.There needs to be an integrated effort towards data updation and frequency of data collection at the national level and percolate down to the states through the State Skill Development Mission. For continuous data analytics on employment by industry, skills and geography, a Labour Market Monitor is needed that would map short term labour market trends by collecting, analyzing and disseminating data on vacancies and registered job seekers. Multilingual dictionary of occupations and skills is needed to enhance transparency of vacancy information to improve matching between job seekers and vacancies. This would also remove the differential taxonomy of calling various job roles.
5. Industry 4.0 :
Future skill requirements of the economy are identified by gathering information from a variety of sources to determine historical trends and utilising various techniques to predict future requirements. The methods used to predict future skill requirements can range from basic projections that take into account the changing industrial and occupational composition of a country's workforce to the use of sophisticated econometric models that consider changes in investment, productivity, output by industry and the effect of changing technology on the occupational mix within specific industry. FICCI- NASSCOM are jointly working on a study on 'Future of jobs' with EY that will map key sectors for jobs and skill set required. FICCI supported by Rolland Berger, the German consulting organisation is also working on mapping Industry 4.0 to meet the future high order skill requirement.
6. Mapping of Internal Migration :
India is like Europe or United States of America- each state at different level of development. Today our country is facing the challenge of internal migration. Over 100 Million urban migrants leave their homes, families and support networks in search of better opportunities seasonally. Labour from Bihar migrates to Kerala and Punjab for agriculture and construction work, plumbers come from Orissa and hospitality and retail industry has been seeing youth from North East migrating to all over India. Quality Training Centers on specific skills should be set up in these feeder regions. Alternatively, the government needs to incentivise industry to set up establishments in states where relevant labour is available to arrest internal distress migration caused due to unavailability of employment opportunities in the region.
7. International Mobility :
We are creating only 5 million jobs where as 18 million youth will be entering the workforce annually for the next 10 years. It's clear that in the struggling economy and limited job creation rate, we need to identify global pockets that are facing the reverse demography trends and look at the institutional ways of filling the deficit. We need to create institutional mechanism to access international labour market data and map it with existing training facilities and global standards. The first steps of harmonizing standards with several countries has been taken by the government. However, with the rapidly shrinking demographic window, implementation of transnational mobility needs to be expedited.
8. Partnership with Industry Associations :
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Mohandas Pai is Chairman, FICCI Skill Development Committee & Shobha Mishra Ghosh is Senior Director, FICCI
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Charting Change, Enabling Development
CII Skill Competitions: Placing India on the Global Skills Map
1. INTRODUCTION :
With India having a low level of formal skill attainments, it is important to make skill training aspirational. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been engaged since long in helping workers take pride in their skills. One way of doing this is through skill competitions, and CII has organized these competitions in select trades for almost three decades at the state and national level. Its efforts moved to the next orbit when CII joined the World Skills International Organization and took skilled Indian masters to compete on the international stage at the ‘Olympics of Skills’.
2. CII Work Skills Competitions :
For promoting vocational training in industrial skills and recognizing individual merit and excellence in skills, CII initiated the WorkSkills Competition on the lines of the Skill Olympics organized by the industry in Europe in 1989.
The first ever CII WorkSkill Competition was organized in 1989 at the Advanced Training Institute, Dasnagar, Howrah. With overwhelming response, CII institutionalized the WorkSkills Competitions as a major event.
CII WorkSkill Competitions are now held every year. These competitions are organised in two stages, one at the regional level and one at the national level with two main categories for the participants – above 22 years and below 22 years.
Entering its 30th year, the WorkSkills Competition saw heartening response last year with approximately 700 competitors from 55 companies and training institutes participating in more than 35 trades at the regional and national level.
3. World Skills Competition :
The World Skills competition is the biggest vocational skills competition in the world and aims to foster skill excellence and raise the recognition of skilled professionals worldwide. The competition brings together youth, industries and educators to give youth the chance to compete, experience and learn how to excel at their desired skills.
WorldSkills is the flagship event of the Amsterdam based not-for-profit organization WorldSkills International and is held every two years. In 2007, India joined the WorldSkills International Organization as its 48th member.
4. World Skills India :
WordSkills India, an initiative of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the Ministry of Skill Development Entrepreneurship, Government of India has been leading the country’s participation in the WorldSkills International Corporations since 2011.
5. CII and World Skills Competitions :
CII has played a pioneering role in the WorldSkills International Competitions. CII believes that the WorldSkills Competitions positively impact the economic and social well-being of people from all sections of society through improving traditional trade and craft skills along with latest technology.
CII has been supporting the NSDC initiative and conducts competitions in the Manufacturing and Engineering and Social Service Skills for the WorldSkill International Competitions since 2007.
6. Journey of CII in World Skills :
CII embarked on its journey in the WorldSkills Competitions with the aim of placing India on the global skill map while also encouraging competitiveness within the industry.
CII’s journey in the WorldSkills Competitions commenced in 2007 when it led the Indian contingent in 5 trades.
In 2009, an Indian participant won the first silver medal in mouldmaking in Canada, where CII led the Indian contingent in 2 trades. CII hosted its first Indian business delegation and led 7competitors in 5 trades in London in 2011.
In 2013, CII supported Indian competitors in 6 trades in Germany and in the 2015 edition, again in Germany, CII supported 7 trades, with India winning 3 medallions of excellence.
In 2017, the World Skill International competition was held at Abu Dhabi, where CII supported 9 skills. Indian won 1 silver medal and 3 Medallion of Excellence in the trades supported by CII.
CII’s journey in the WorldSkills Competitions commenced in 2007 when it led the Indian contingent in 5 trades.
In 2009, an Indian participant won the first silver medal in mouldmaking in Canada, where CII led the Indian contingent in 2 trades. CII hosted its first Indian business delegation and led 7competitors in 5 trades in London in 2011.
In 2013, CII supported Indian competitors in 6 trades in Germany and in the 2015 edition, again in Germany, CII supported 7 trades, with India winning 3 medallions of excellence.
In 2017, the World Skill International competition was held at Abu Dhabi, where CII supported 9 skills. Indian won 1 silver medal and 3 Medallion of Excellence in the trades supported by CII.
7. State Skill Competitions 2018 :
1.Andhra Pradesh State Skill Competition – “Nai-punya”
Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) along with CII hosted its first-ever State Skills Competition 2018-“Naipunya”. CII was the Execution Partner.
The Andhra Pradesh state skill competition “Naipunya” took place in four different clusters from which the final participants were selected after screening for the final state level competitions
The winners from the clusters participated in the state level competition between 10-11 May 2018. A total of 165 competitors participated in the competition in 26 trades. After an exciting round, 8 candidates were selected for the national level in 6 different skills
2.. Maharashtra State Skill Competition 2018 – “Maha Kaushalya” :
The Maharashtra State Skill Development Corporation (MSSDS) and Directorate of Vocational Education and Training in collaboration with CII also hosted its first state skill competition “Maha Kaushalya” in 2018.
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Competitions were held at two levels – cluster level and state level, with close to 2200 candidates participating in the competitions. Competitors showcased their skills across 32 skill trades.
Winners of the state skill competitions were given due recognition by the State and Industry for their exemplary performance while all competitors were issued a participation certificate from the Government of Maharashtra.
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Competitions were held at two levels – cluster level and state level, with close to 2200 candidates participating in the competitions. Competitors showcased their skills across 32 skill trades.
Winners of the state skill competitions were given due recognition by the State and Industry for their exemplary performance while all competitors were issued a participation certificate from the Government of Maharashtra.
The winners would stand a chance to compete in the Regional and National rounds of the IndiaSkills Competition in 2018. The winners of India Skills 2018 will then get a chance to compete in the WorldSkills Competition to be held in Kazan, Russia in 2019. The CII skill competitions endeavor to transform the skill landscape of India by promoting skill excellence among talented Indian youth. They provide youth the opportunity to participate in national and international skill competitions, thereby placing India firmly on the global skills map.
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JAY HIND
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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