Parkash Singh Badal, Ministerpräsident des Bundesstaats Punjab, bestätigte, dass bis zum Jahr 2020 in Indien 109 Millionen junge Inderinnen und Inder für ihren Eintritt in den Arbeitsmarkt und 460 Millionen weitere Menschen qualifiziert werden müssen.
India needs to provide skill training to 109 million new entrants: Punjab CM
After chairing a meeting of NITI Aayog sub-group of chief ministers on skill
development, Punjab's chief minister Parkash Singh Badal highlighted that by
2020 India has to provide skill training to 109 million new entrants into the
job markets and 460 million people to upscale their skills.
He said,
"Now the time has come that right to skill be legalized since we have already
empowered our citizens with the right to information (RTI), right to food and
right to education."
Badal said. Though India today is a youngest
country as 65 percent of the population is below the age of 35, still our
country faces a serious problem of unemployment especially amongst the youths,
ladies and low strata of the society, admits NITI Aayog official. When we
compare India with countries like Korea, Japan and Germany whose population is
80 per cent skilled our country's skilled population stand only about 12 per
cent, said Minister.
He further expressed that the per capita income of
our country is low because our nation is unskilled nation, our country is far
behind other countries in skill development. He also put emphasis on the need to
mobilized targeted population particularly the rural youths, the weaker section
and women to make them aware of skill training and motivate them to take
advantage to take skill training programme.
While adding that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has constituted this board of chief ministers to go in
details about how to go and make this nation a skilled nation, he said, "We have
to do lots of home work to convince them that skill is more important than even
service in government jobs." Badal has set 25 June as the deadline for the state
governments to submit their views and suggestion.
Sindhushree Khullar,
CEO, NITI Aayog also expressed the need to speed up the recommendation process
and expressed concern that only few states have responded in writing on the
same. The chief ministers are expected to recommend measures to NITI Aayog on
how to deal with shortage of skilled manpower in production lines and also to
propose measures to expand outreach of skill programmes particularly in
demographically advantageous states.