The central government may have been running a big campaign in the country for the last ten years called Skill India to provide employment to the youth, in which there are claims of making the youth skilled on a large scale, but the reality is that the youth are not being skilled in the areas in which there is a demand for them in the country. In such a situation, even after being skilled, they are not getting work.

After the World Bank exposed this gap between demand and skilling, the Ministry of Education and Labor are now preparing for a major change in the pattern of skilling, in which the youth of each state and district will be skilled by looking at their needs. This report released by the World Bank under the name 'Naukri Aapke Dwar' is going to expose the government, but even after this, the Ministry of Education and Labor have indicated to move forward on the basis of the report.

The campaign will start from schools

If sources in the ministry are to be believed, soon it will work towards identifying the major employment sectors in each district of the country, their demand and providing education related to it. This campaign will start from schools itself. Where students from class 6 will now be compulsorily taught some skill. It will be taught prominently from class 9 to 12. According to the plan, initially it will be implemented in at least 30 percent of secondary schools in each district. Where skilling can be done in at least two areas related to the demand of that area. Later it will be expanded to five areas.

The gap between demand and skilling

Shimla

• Current annual skilling capacity is around 10,000 in the IT sector, 4,000 in healthcare, 4,000 in tourism and hotel sector, 3,000 in agriculture sector, 2,500 in retail, 1,700 in telecom.
• Employment demand and skilling status: Food production, horticulture, dairy, fisheries, banking-finance, insurance, beauty, horticulture, tourism, healthcare sectors etc have the highest employment demand, whereas out of these, only horticulture, tourism, healthcare have skilling facilities. In the rest of the sectors, skilling facilities are either non-existent or very less.

Indore

• Current annual skilling capacity is: 3360 in IT, 1600 in beauty and wellness, 600 in healthcare, 320 in agriculture, 160 in retail.
• Demand and skilling situation: There is a high demand for jobs in food grain production, horticulture, workshop technology, machine operation, electronics and hardware, IT software, sales-marketing, hotel, beauty-wellness etc. sectors, whereas skilling facilities are currently available only in IT software and beauty-wellness. In other sectors, it is either non-existent or very less.