Skill India Research Articles

The Agenda for Youth Empowerment through Market-Relevant Skill Training: A case study of Skill India Mission

India's youth demographic makes up one-fifth of the world's population and empowering them is crucial for the country's future success. To become a US $5 trillion economy, the Government needs to develop tailor-made strategies, policies and schemes that maximize the potential of the youth population. The Skill India Mission is one such scheme that aims to empower youth by providing necessary training and skills for the job market. However, the scheme's implementation has been plagued by various challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, low awareness, lack of quality trainers and limited industry participation. This study aims to determine the need for the Skill India Mission scheme, identify the impediments in its implementation and to propose resolutions to the problems. The study concludes that the Skill India Mission is necessary for India's economic growth and social development. Government can address the challenges of implementing the scheme by improving infrastructure, increasing industry participation and enhancing awareness.

Skill India’s unmet promises: raising expectations for financial assistance in training for informal sector livelihoods

ABSTRACT Recent research on vocational training in the global South suggests training may have the effect of unrealistically inflating trainee expectations of remunerative employment and upward social mobility. These studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on training for formal sector employment. The present paper, by contrast, explores how formal vocational training initiatives for informal sector livelihoods affect trainee expectations – and the flow-on effects these altered expectations have for their social and economic lives. It presents the findings of a study of agricultural training initiatives in north India. The study found that training – in conjunction with other local actors and institutions – had the effect of fostering unrealistic expectations amongst trainees, but instead of fostering expectations for paid employment, it fostered the expectation that the training certificate would lead to financial assistance from banks and/or government sources. When these expectations went unmet, they could have adverse consequences for trainees – including financial losses. The effects of distorted expectations differed as a function of gender and caste, with marginalised castes most adversely effected. This situation might be improved through better institutional linkages between the skill development sector, banks, and relevant government departments and through trainers imparting more realistic advice on prospects for financial assistance.

Scope of waste plastic to reuse in India – A review

Plastic consumption in India is increasing in fields of automotive, electronics, textiles, consumer durables and medicine where it is used for the creating the light weight, insulation, packaging, aesthetic, beverages and safety purposes. Because of the capacity to construct desired shapes, colours, and specifications that are easy for clients, packaging, agriculture, vehicles, and biomedical applications are all gaining in popularity. Intelligent and smart packaging technologies have grown increasingly important as a result of advances in information technology. According to Plastic India Foundation plastic agencies, the compound annual growth rate in 2020 will be 22 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) in India. This is also contributed by many governments’ initiatives such as Made in India, Make in India and Skill India, but Government of India has trying to restrict the plastic usage by 22 kg per captia in comings years. Even though there are a lot of initiatives by the Government of India, there is increase in the plastic usage because there is no involvement of the organized sector. This article reviews the scope in the reuse of plastic in India.

Gandhi's Economic Approach to Rural Areas

Gandhi's ideas on the rural economy are a shining example of Gandhism, which is fundamentally centred on the creation of a rural lifestyle that is independent and based on solid and sustainable development. In Gandhiji's view, this idea of a rural swaraj would be a democracy in which both independence and cooperation would be present. Gandhiji thought that a cottage industry centred on the village would give it economic power, prevent output from becoming uneven, and liberate rural life from the aspects of exploitation. Gandhiji's vision for rural industries was built around the manufacturing of khadi. Gandhiji incorporated the spinning wheel in his creative work for this reason. Gandhiji equated the leather trade with labour pride rather than disdain, which supports the rural economy. Gandhiji counsels the general populace to make use of commodities produced in rural areas to boost the rural economy and increase demand for the products of village industries. Gandhiji believed that the government's responsibility in this situation should include both financial assistance and the growth of the cooperative institution. Gandhiji saw the farmer as the cornerstone of the rural economy, which is why it served as the foundation for his major campaign. Gandhiji had a vision of the perfect village, where the residents would be healthy, intellectual, and sociable. Gandhiji's beliefs are still relevant today. Some examples are the promotion of Khadi, the idea of the PURA (Rural-Urban) Mission, the Start-up campaign, Mudra Banking, Skill India, the Swachh Bharat Mission, etc. Looks creative. Gandhiji's well-known adage, “Nature can meet all our wants but not our greed,” is a direct criticism of global warming and biodiversity loss. Day of Nonviolence, Green GNP, and Sustainable Development Gandhian thinking itself appear to be the source of inspiration for the global movement toward the idea of philosophy. In actuality, Gandhi's philosophy is founded on the idea of Sarvodaya and is built on life, truth, and morality, which are everlasting truths.

Research Paper Title: Understanding the Externalities of E-Commerce Management in India

Increased internet and cell phone use over the past 20 years has altered how people communicate and conduct business. E-commerce is a new idea and a game changer for businesses everywhere. The e-commerce industry is predicted to develop at a 41% CAGR in India, surpassing USD 103 billion by 2020. The key factors encouraging the expansion of the e-commerce business are the rising use of the internet and smartphones. Favourable demographics and a rising internet user population also contributed to this increase. According to analysis, India is adding three new internet users every second, and by 2020 it expects to have 320 million online buyers, up from approximately 50 million in 2015. It demonstrates how quickly young minds and blood in India are moving toward embracing new technologies. E-commerce expenditure made up 2% of all retail spending in 2015–16 and has grown to be a major force in the development of new markets. By 2020, it is projected to contribute to 4% of the GDP. Its growth is being accelerated by government programs like Make in India, Digital India, Skill India, Start-up India, and Cashless India. However, the rapid expansion of the e-commerce sector and the use of the internet came with several difficulties that needed to be addressed periodically. This paper tries to study the socioeconomic externalities of the e-commerce industry in India considering its current and projected trends. This paper will provide a policy prescription on how government support programs can help the e-commerce sector expand while raising the positive externalities and keeping negative externalities at bay.

A Study on Make in India Job Opportunities in India

India has had a significant issue with the creation of jobs. The “Make in India” programme aspires to make India a centre for global manufacturing and create enough jobs. However, there are significant challenges to the success of Make in India due to the state of the industrial industry today. The sector’s absorptive capacity has a history of declining, which raises severe concerns about the campaign’s ability to achieve its goals. In this situation, concentrating only on the manufacturing industry seems like a bad plan. The article makes the case that a better method is to discover suitable industrial products and services that can provide enough employment and spark growth. Along with this identification, it has become crucial to educate and skill India in order to prepare the workforce for opportunities for successful employment.

Skills to stay: social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka

Skill development is considered to be critically important for the eradication of poverty and for social inclusion in the Global South. The Indian government launched broad reforms under the Skill India Mission in 2015 to train 400 million Indians by 2022. However, little is known about the social processes of skill acquisition, especially within the agricultural sector in rural India. In 2020–2021, we conducted work-life course interviews with 66 men and women between the ages of 18 and 65 in a village in southern Karnataka to better understand the informal and non-formal processes of skill acquisition in agriculture and allied activities. We argue that in the absence of formal skilling opportunities, the existing informal and non-formal skilling landscapes are filtered through the intersecting identities of gender, generation, caste and class, and are central in shaping farming futures.

Rehabilitation of Small-Scale Industries through Skill India

Rehabilitation of Small-Scale Industries through Skill India

Significance of Information and Computers Technology (ICT) and Scientific Advancements in the Successful Accomplishment of the Objectives of 'Skill India' and 'Make in India' Programme of Government of India

Significance of Information and Computers Technology (ICT) and Scientific Advancements in the Successful Accomplishment of the Objectives of 'Skill India' and 'Make in India' Programme of Government of India

Impact of Skill India Mission on Indian Economy

Impact of Skill India Mission on Indian Economy

Skilling the Indian youth: a State-level analysis

Purpose Market-driven skill development initiatives are essential in India as a large segment of its educated workforce is unemployed or unemployable, with little or no job skills. The “Skill India Mission” aims at endowing the youth with skills that can increase their employability and productivity in jobs. The success of the Mission depends on State-level initiatives in tandem with the Mission. This paper analyzes the impact of job offers extended to the youth of Jharkhand State as an outcome of State-level skill development initiatives. Its broad objective is to assist the Government in the delivery of skill-based training programs.Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a structured questionnaire administered across various districts of Jharkhand to capture the perceptions of trainees and training centers. The final sample of 498 had attended training in apparel, retail, security, automotive, food and beverage service, IT/ITES, electronics and construction. Findings Statistical analysis reveals a significant increase in the economic status of trainees after joining jobs. Other findings include apathy toward migration, a mismatch between skills gained and jobs, and a dearth of qualified trainers.Practical implications The authors recommend counseling and attitudinal restructuring of the youth, designing multi-skill training programs and promoting entrepreneurial spirit. The authors also propose a stakeholder-based approach for curriculum development to fill the demand–supply gap of training and ensure better trainee retention. The Government could benefit by focusing the skilling programs on the career adaptability of trainees. Skill development and vocational education and training may not operate in silos. Training programs could be planned to be conducted jointly through ITIs and State-level training institutions under the Skill India Mission.Originality/value This research could increase the effectiveness of skill development initiatives across India, thereby improving the socioeconomic status of the youth thus trained. The authors emphasize developing a people-centric perspective in skilling, shifting attention from the existing industry-driven approach, to strike a balance between the demand and supply sides. This perspective can optimize skill development initiatives by reducing the gap between employment demand and skill development.

Vocal for local is a significant initiative: prospect and challenges with special reference to asean nations

Vocal for Local is a very significant programme for local India's skilled workforce which create an opportunity to boost their products on the global platform and to support Indian economy at the grassroots level as a step towards self-reliance. By “Vocal for Local” our Prime Minister has appealed for buying the local products which would support the local business players, manufacturers, markets and supply chain manager. During the period of lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic, it also helped the local vendors, producers and services provider which has helped us for survival in the abnormal condition. Vocal for local gives unambiguous status to the domestic industries and the small-scale Kirana stores. In this time, where we are struggling to maintain liquidity and regular cash flow, the vocal for local movement can also be seen as an impetus to reawaken demand and hence, to throw a lifeline to the small and marginal domestic industries which are struggling to survive in the wake of the pandemic. The first objective of the study is to analyse the importance of ‘Vocal for Local’ programme for infant and small and medium enterprises and the second objective defines the analyse of local for vocal programme is helpful for decreasing the Balance of Trade globally especially with South East Nations. This study is descriptive and analytical in nature. Due to the higher growth of imports as compared to export, India's balance of trade was remained unfavourable. In 2004, India's balance of trade with globally was US$ -12.66 billion which has increased up to US$122.91 billion in 2020. Meanwhile, India's balance of trade with ASEAN states was US$ -0.998 billion in 2004 which has increased up to US$-12.90 billion in 2020. Thus, Indian government has launched a delightful programme named “Vocal for Local” which would support Skill India Mission as well as Make in India mission programme in controlling balance of trades (BoT).

THE IMPACT OF NEW EDUCATION POLICY ON THE MAKE IN INDIA INITIATIVE AND THEIR INTERDEPENDENCE

Currently, India is trying to surge its economy in every way possible, ensuring healthy growth. The recent initiatives to boost the manufacturing sector were undertaken in 2004 with the name Make in India. There were few ancillary programs to it i.e., Skill India, Digital India, Start-up India, etc. All the programs require skilled labor, for which it becomes imperative to upgrade higher education policies. With the pace at which the economy is emerging as a developing economy, it becomes necessary to make it an educational awareness generation. The need of the hour is to pursue this as soon as possible, and it is visible with the government’s new education policy (NEP). This makes it essential to study this topic. The current study envisages the relationship between Make in India policy and education (NEP) and their interdependence. The study explains the ecosystem between education and the program's success, confirming the interrelation between them.

A DESCRIPTINE STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF PMKVY IN UP GRADATION OF SKILLS IN NAGALAND

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a Skill India campaign on 15 July, 2015. This campaign goal is to train over forty crore candidates in India in different skills by 2022. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is a unique initiative that aims to offer meaningful, industry relevant, and skill based training to youth. Under this initiative, the trainees are offered a government certification and monetary reward on successful completion of training, which will help them to earn money or securing their livelihood. The PMKVY is a key measure to impart skill-based training to youth, enabling them to earn and support the anti-poverty efforts of the nation. Subsequently the last two decades, India's government has implemented many large national programs for vocational education, training and skill development to improve youth employment and earnings prospects. Since five years to PMKVY came into existence, an attempt has been made to evaluate the role and performance of PMKVY through a descriptive study in Nagaland.

Awareness and perception towards Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) Scheme 2.0 with special reference to Rajasthan State

On July 15, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a Skill India campaign. The mission goal is to plan about forty crore applicants of various abilities in India by 2022. They were also given opportunities to develop their skills in a variety of areas. The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is an exciting initiative that aims to provide youngsters with important, industry-appropriate, and ability-based planning. Under this initiative, the understudies were given an organization confirmation and pecuniary reimbursement for the constructive fulfillment of preparedness, which would assist them with acquiring cash or gaining. Along these lines, the PMKVY was made as a basic measure to give expertise-based readiness to youth, enabling them to secure and maintain the counter-desperation tries of the country. Likewise, during the last two decades, India's organization has completed a number of large-scale public projects for professional counseling, planning, and advancement in order to promote young employment and pay opportunities. Surveying PMKVY's work and influence is critical starting roughly four years after it appeared. The research investigates the impact of PMKVY in Rajasthan and the issues associated with it. The article also investigates how the government's lead strategy made Rajasthan a more reliant state.

An Effective Assessment of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) in Providing Skill Training Programme for Youth: A Study of Haryana State

Skills development is imperative to sustaining traditional growth and development in a country like India which is experiencing a demographic dividend. It is a huge challenge not only for the government, but also for the private sector and educational institutions to rise up and specialize to make the country’s youth employable and ensure that there is no mismatch between demand and the offer. This study examines the role of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Vikas Yojana (DDU-GKY) in the development of rural youth in the Haryana State. Secondary data (2015-2021) were used for the study. The results show that the interest of the population towards DDU-GKY and the interns recruited has greatly diminished, which is a matter of concern. Key Words: Demographic Dividend, Inclusive Growth, Smart Cities, Skill India

75th Foundation Day of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory: Celebration of Achievements in Metrology for National Growth

The CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of India, is a premier laboratory, founded on January 04, 1947, under the umbrella of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Government of India, by an Act of Parliament. It has now completed 74 glorious years after inception and entered into its 75th year, i.e. Platinum Jubilee Year. To commemorate its 75th Foundation Day, the CSIR-NPL organized a National Metrology Conclave (NMC) on January 04, 2021. On this auspicious occasion, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi dedicated the National Atomic Timescale and Bhartiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND®)—CRMs to the nation. He also laid the foundation stone of National Environmental Standard Laboratory. He addressed the august gathering in the gracious presence of Honourable Union Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Harsh Vardhan. Honourable Prime Minister inspired, motivated and appreciated the strides made by Indian Scientists for nation building, especially the role of CSIR-NPL and impact of metrology for self-reliant India. Honourable Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, inaugurated the exclusively designed poster gallery, displaying accomplishments and importance of metrology in the CSIR-NPL campus and released a book entitled, “Metrology for Inclusive Growth of India”. Several of the world metrology leaders also presented their visions, in the NMC, on the role of metrology in societal and industrial growth through online virtual platform. The main emphasis was placed on the importance and impact of the metrology in the success of several initiatives of Government of India, namely ‘AtmaNirbhar Bharat’ (Self-Reliant India), ‘Make in India’, ‘Digital India’, ‘Skill India’, ‘Vocal for Local’, etc. During all these years, the journey of the CSIR-NPL has been wonderful, splendid and magnificent on several aspects of celebrations, pride, recognition, global visibility and its services for the national cause. It has achieved many milestones, developed technologies of national eminence, organised many memorable events, successfully participated in various national missions’ time to time and published considerable amount of literature for knowledge generation in the form of research papers, patents, copyrights, books, monographs, technical peers, Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs) and study reports, etc. The successful journey of these glorious years though looks easy, simple, normal and customary but in actual sense, lot of pain staking efforts, huge work, vicissitudes are behind all these accomplishments. The glimpses of the journey of CSIR-NPL from its inception to recently held NMC and the excerpts of addresses made by the dignitaries are also summarized in detail in this article.

A renewed path for skilling in IT/ITeS sector for transition to the new normal

Every drawdown is an indication to a new beginning - an exploration of a renewed trajectory to meet our goal, the sooner it is demarcated, the better the adaptability and success rate. A compulsive disruption from usual ways of working to a forced new normal is what the IT/ITeS skills ecosystem in India is called to embrace as the challenge of the era. An examination of the evolving IT/ITeS skills ecosystem in India, identifying of the skill skewed areas where incremental demand for talent needs to generate through the existing skilling, reskilling and upskilling programs and investing more in those areas would serve the purpose of the Skill India movement launched way back in 2015. The research paper expounds on the need for a revival of the system of IT Skilling adhered to under the Skill India movement of India, in order to prove more beneficial to help employability of the incumbents. Based on a survey of 367 graduates of IT Skill courses, the study concludes by enumerating those specific IT skills or key thrust areas in skilling that need focus and adaptability of Training institutions to incorporate these key skills and a renewed skilling path to the PMKVY skill training so as to emerge successful in the era of the New Normal.

Institutional environment, competencies and firm export performance: A study of the emerging country

The study is an attempt to examine the determinants and impact of export propensity and export intensity for firm-level performance in India. The factors determining export propensity are political stability, corruption, and competition from the informal sector while the determinants of export intensity in the present study are identified as a skill of the labour force, the technological capability of a firm, and foreign ownership of technology in a firm in India. A two-stage Heckman selection model has been advanced to investigate the linkage between the export performance of Indian firms with the home institutional environment and firm competencies. Firm-level data of approximately 8,000 Indian firms are used as available from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys (WBES) database. The results indicate that political stability and competition effect export propensity of Indian firms while export intensity is impacted by access to technology and employing skilled labour. The study has important theoretical implications in terms of understanding the exporting behaviour of firms. It indicates that the decision of firms to export and their export performance are interlinked. It is affirmed that export intensity is dependent on firm-specific competencies while institutions indirectly influence the decision of firms to export. The policy measures of Skill India and Make in India strongly favour increased access to the skilled labour force and strengthening the domestic industry which may lead to an increase in the export intensity of Indian firms. The recent institutional measures adopted favour a stable environment of doing business as well as providing firms opportunities to focus and leverage their competencies in the best possible manner. The current nascent steps of policy reforms need to be aggressively implemented for enhanced export capabilities of Indian firms

Appraisal of Skill India Mission

Appraisal of Skill India Mission