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Education Management System (EMS) designed and developed for IGNOU-VIEP Centres is ready for adoption.
For Installation centres to contact
Mr. A. Ravi Chandran
Mobile : +91 9311394695, 9650977554
Mail : ed@ignouviep.org
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PM constitutes National Council on Skill Development. More...
Address by the Hon’ble President of India, Shrimati pratibha Devisingh Patil, to Parliament. More...
Presentation in the NAC on Vocational Training Under DIRECTORATE GENERAL of EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT. More...
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IGNOU–VIEP & NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM |
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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a major skill development programme.
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Skill development is the most crucial issue, which needs to be addressed by our country. To achieve our targeted economic growth, the major constraint is the availability of skilled manpower1. India has to, can and should create 500 million skilled technicians by the year 2020, thereby the skilled workforce in India would be one-fourth of the global workforce2. The shortage in India of skilled workforce is not only in hi-tech skills but also in basic skills3.
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We require to increase the skilled workforce from 5% at present to about 50%, which is the norm in developed countries4. By 2020, US, China, Japan and Russia will be short of 42 million people of working age. Against this, India will have a surplus of 47 million working age people. However, to translate their demographic divide into true development divide, we have to expand our educational system and improve our skill building abilities5.
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Our biggest challenge, therefore, is in relation to human resources. We have in it both the quantity and quality problems. This need to be tacked in different time-frames — the short term, the medium term and the long term. In the short-term, we need programmes to top up the skill level of graduating students through "finishing schools" and "finishing programmes" which will help resolve the quality problem. In the medium term, this kind of training needs to be back-ended into the formal system itself by improving the quality of our technical and general education programmes at the graduate level. This will make graduates far more employable6.
Though we have an advantage to-day of having the largest population of young people in the world, we should invest adequately in their education and their skill development, which will make India the largest pool of technically trained manpower in the world7.
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The Prime Minister"s National Council for Skill Development, chaired by the Prime Minister, National Skill Development Board, coordinated by the Planning Commission, to combine public and private prongs of action and National Skill Development Corporation catalyzed by the Ministry of Finance to promote skill development in private sector, acting in coordination, in a three-tier structure, moved India forward to achieve the targeted result of having 500 million technicians by 20207. The Union of India has also set up a National Mission of Vocational Education and Skill Development8. The Central Government has also sought to convert the XI Plan largely into a national plan for education with a gross budgetary support to Education being raised from 7.68% in the X Plan to 19% in the XI Plan. The investment in Education would be complementary to the proposed action for skill development7.
In the context of the number of agendas that have taken place in higher, professional and technical education in the last many years and the demands of a new knowledge economy, the Planning Commission, in consultation with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and other concerned Ministries, is to set up a Work Group for suggesting specific remarks agenda in this area*.
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As part of carrying out the Skill Development Mission in India with policies of Prime Minister’s National Council of Skill Development :…
♦To have 500 million skilled technicians by the year 20207.
♦To achieve our targeted growth in economy1.
♦To become the one-fourth of the technical workforce in the world2.
♦To increase the skilled workforce from 5% to about 50%4.
♦To have the surplus 47 million working age people being* converted into technicians5.
♦To increase the percentage of literacy and limited literacy of the workforce of 397 million in which almost 67% is either illiterate or suffers from limited literacy level9.
♦To ensure that the workforce remains on the cutting edge of the technology revolution9.
♦To obliterate the gender and rural-urban divides in acquiring skill development10.
♦To utilize the available resources such as educational institutions7 with public and private sector participation7 for skill development*.
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IGNOU, adopting the concept, structure and services under the Public-Private-Partnership has identified for launch of an integrated skill development programme on 1st January 2010 across many Centres in India.
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At present, though human resources are adequately available in India and also skill development programmes have been promoted by starting and promoting Industrial Training Institutes and Polytechnics, the desired results could not be achieved. This is due to the reason that the Industrial Training Institutes as well as Polytechnics do not attract youngsters for the basic reason that there is no opportunity provided in our educational system for their further advancement. Similarly, the 10 + 2 vocational stream students also do not have an opening for further advancement of their education / career in their own relevant stream of Engineering. Again, the science graduates who have acquired the knowledge of the theory do not have an opportunity to undergo training for application of the theory, i.e., to acquire the technical knowledge of the science. This being the reason, even if numerous Industrial Training Institutes are opened or Polytechnics created and upgraded, there will be no takers of the programmes unless those programmes are vertically connected for further educational growth / advancement.
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Again, for working people, there is no provision in the existing system of education for enhancement of their skills supported by proper certification by certificates, diplomas and degrees. Moreover, to achieve the employability of skilled persons, certification of their skills is absolutely necessary11.
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Taking into consideration all these factors, to implement effectively the policies and objectives of Prime Minister’s National Council for Skill Development, IGNOU has launched the Vertically Integrated Programme in Skill Development. The integrated skill development programme is launched at present in …
Civil,
Mechanical,
Electrical and Electronics,
Electronics and Communication,
Computer Science.
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Skill development programme is proposed to be launched in July 2010 session in the following disciplines also …
(a) Naval Architecture
(b) Automobile Engineering
(c) Aeronautical Engineering
(d) Marine Engineering
(e) Chemical Engineering
(f) Polymer Technology
(g) Production Engineering
(h) Manufacturing Engineering
(i) Metallurgical Engineering
(j) Industrial Bio Technology
(k) Bio Technology
(l) Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
(m) Medical Electronics
(n) Information Technology
(o) Fashion Technology
(p) Textile Engineering
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1. Prime Minister’s speech on 12th December 2007 while inaugurating India Telecom – 2007.
2. Prime Minister’s speech on 30th August 2008 on at the presentation of National Awards to Small, Medium and Micro Entrepreneurs.
3. Prime Minister at the Golden Jubilee of Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
4. Prime Minister’s address on 27th April 2007 at the 41st Session of the Indian Labour Conference.
5. Prime Minister’s speech on 5th October 2006 at the Inauguration of Servin XPO 2006 Exhibition.
6. Prime Minister’s address on 9th February 2007 at the NASSCOM-2007 – India Leadership Forum.
7. Prime Minister writes to Chief Ministers on 30th August 2008 suggesting use of public education infrastructure for skill development.
8. Prime Minister speech on 30th August 2007 in the National Award Function for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
9. Prime Minister’s speech on 4th October 2004 at the Shram Awards Function.
10. Prime Minister’s Address on 28th September 2007 at the Goa University Convocation.
11. Prime Minister at the 41st session of Indian Labour conferencet the on 27 April 2007.
*. PM’s remarks at the planning commission meeting on September 13 2007.
*. Prime Minister’s address to Students and Faculty of IIT-Guwahati on 26th August 2008.
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