Ein neu einzuführendes Berufsbildungsgesetz in Indien soll den gesetzlichen Rahmen für "India's Vocational Training Act" bilden.
India's Vocational Training Act to provide legal framework for Skill India programme
India could introduce a Vocational Training Act on the lines of the one in
China, with the ministry of labour and employment working on the contours of the
first of its kind initiative in the country to provide legal framework for the
Narendra Modi-led NDA government's Skill India programme that aims to provide
quality training to millions of youths over the next seven years to make them
employable.
As a large number of youths enter the workforce every year,
India needs to improve quality of training so it matches international
standards, a senior ministry official said.
"We are currently studying
the law on vocational education in China and plan to come up with our own
legislation that will provide a framework for imparting vocational training in
the country," said the official, who did not wish to be named.
Countries such as Germany and China have dedicated laws for vocational
training and the ministry is studying these to understand how a similar
legislation best suited to India can be introduced in the country.
"There
is an incremental requirement of 347 million skilled manpower in 21 high growth
sectors, including manufacturing sector, by the year 2022," the ministry
recently said in a reply to a Parliament question citing a study by the National
Skill Development Corporation.
In his budget speech, Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley had announced a new national programme called Skill India to impart
employability and entrepreneurship skills to the youth by merging various
schemes from across ministries. India has the world's youngest workforce with
over 12 million new entrants in the labour market every year but it is short on
skills as only 2.5per cent of the employees have any certified
ability.
As a result, the country's demographic dividend has not
materialised. The industry is unable to find employable workers, a situation
that experts say could lead to socio-economic unrest if the youth remain
unemployed and have no avenue for training.
The target is to skill 500
million people by 2022 and the government is largely betting on private players
for skill development programmes.
Recently, the ministry of labour and
employment has signed flexi MOUs (memorandums of understanding) with Tata Sons,
Flipkart, Raymonds and the Gujarat Industrial Power Company Ltd (GIPCL) that
will give companies the flexibility to design training programmes at Industrial
Training Institutes in a manner that the youth are skilled according to the
specific needs of the industry.