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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt abandons goal of training 500 million people in new skills by 2022 -Prashant K Nanda

Govt abandons goal of training 500 million people in new skills by 2022 -Prashant K Nanda

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published Published on Jun 7, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 7, 2017
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Skill development ministry, led by Rajiv Pratap Rudy, has refused to spell out a new number that the government and its ministries will chase

New Delhi:
The government has abandoned its goal of training 500 million people in new skills by 2022, in a clear shift in strategy.

Skill development ministry officials, at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, also refused to spell out a new number that the Union government and its 22 departments and ministries will chase.

“We don’t want to chase any number. Whether it is 150 million by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and 350 million by ministries—we are delinking it, not attaching any number,” said Rajesh Aggarwal, director-general of training and a joint secretary in the skills ministry.

Skill development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy agreed.

“It will be demand driven than supply driven,” he said.

Though the ministry did not give a reason for shifting focus and delinking numbers from the skills mission, over the years, skill training targets have been missed.

Between 2011 and 2015, the Union government missed the skill training target in three out of four years, barring 2013-14.

In 2014-15, the first year of the National Democratic Alliance government, all the departments, including NSDC, trained around 7.5 million people against a target of 10.5 million, as per official data.

In the next two years—2015-16 and 2016-17—they trained 11.7 million people.

The 500 million number formed the premise on which the Union government set up different bodies such as NSDC, National Skill Development Agency, Skill Development Fund, and made a concerted move to make the skill development sector for-profit in India as against the not-for profit nature of the education sector.

Besides, NSDC was given a corpus to hand out soft loans to training providers to achieve certain training targets.

Some of NSDC’s initial loans have turned non-performing assets, Mint reported on 26 May.

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