Die indische Regierung will mit einem neuen Konzept namens "Udyamita" den Bereich Unternehmertum in die Bildung integrieren, so Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Govt to launch 'Udyamita' scheme to promote entrepreneurship: Union Minister
Government will launch a new scheme 'Udyamita' to integrate entrepreneurship
with education, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Tuesday.
"We are
launching a new initiative called the Udyamita Scheme and this would cover about
3,000 educational institutes with assistance of Wadhwani Foundation. This would
happen in 2,200 colleges, 500 ITIs and 300 high schools where entrepreneurship
teachers would be trained from outside and positioned in the educational
institutes to integrate entrepreneurship in education, to assist students to
build up entrepreneurship," Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Rudy told reporters here.
A provision of Rs 50 crore has been made to roll out the scheme
in the first year. Elaborating on announcements related to skill development in
the Union Budget, Rudy said 1,500 multi-skill training institutes will be set up
in public-private-partnership mode over the next three years covering a large
number of unserved blocks across the country.
Laying out the objective of
skilling one crore youth over the next three years, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley had announced a raft of measures, including setting up 1,500 multi-skill
training institutes and National Board for Skill Development
Certification.
Jaitley earmarked a sum of Rs 1,700 crore for setting up 1,500 multi-skill
training institutes in the country and scaling up Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojna. Rudy said a national portal on skills will be launched by the
month-end.
"Apart from mobile training vans in rural areas, we also aim
to have a national portal on skills which will have all the aspects related to
employment including information about training or the Labour Market Information
System (LMIS) which is to be launched by March 31. We are also planning to set
up a community radio network across the country," he added.
Asked whether
he was satisfied with the functioning of the National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC), Rudy said, "NSDC is a part of us. Total revamp has been
undertaken by NSDC board... NSDC will be made more accountable."
NSDC
had earlier accepted resignations of MD and CEO
Dilip Chenoy and COO Atul
Bhatnagar, paving the way for restructuring of the skill development
body.
The resignations of the two top functionaries last year came amid
reports that the government, which has taken up the skill development initiative
on top priority, was not happy with the functioning of the body as it was not in
pace with demand and was lagging in strengthening private
partnerships.
Besides, Rudy said the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship will shortly sign MoUs with Ministry of External Affairs and
Ministry of Civil Aviation to harness the existing infrastructure of Airports
Authority of India and other bodies.
The minister said the government is
looking to introduce a Bill to provide statutory status to the National Skills
Qualification Framework in the monsoon session of Parliament.
"In the
next session of Parliament hopefully we will be able to bring in a legislation
to provide statutory status to National Skills Qualification Framework," Rudy
said. He stated that 18 lakh youths have already enrolled in the Pradhan Mantri
Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) in last eight months.
Rudy added that the
government has partnered with World Bank to upgrade industrial training in the
country. This entails Skill Training for Employability Leveraging Public Private
Partnership (STELPPP) with the proposed assistance of $1 billion from World Bank and Skill Training for
Industries Value Enhancement (STRIVE) with an estimated cost of $537.50
million.
The minister said the formation of the National Skill
Certification Board is another big step in further strengthening the skill
ecosystem. It will see representation from both government and industry, which
will collectively enable a joint framework for quality skill
assessment.
He said with the implementation of common norms with effect
from April 1, 2016, there will be more synergies that will be seen across
ministries, departments and states on skill development.