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PM ON NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

4th October 2004	Prime Minister’s speech at the Shram Awards Function
	Government to emphasise on employment-led growth
18th October 2004	PM Launches "Village Resource Centre"
	Tele-education would enable non-formal education, strengthen supplementary teaching mechanisms, and facilitate interactive training and skill development processes to the rural community.
11th December 2004	PM chairs meeting of the National Commission on Enterprises in the Unorganised /Informal Sector
	Skill formation in the informal sector and the potential for public private-partnership in the provision of the required skills
16th February 2005	PM’s speech at the inauguration of Rajiv Gandhi CCPP-II, NTPC Kayamkulam
	I believe Kerala’s investment in human skill development enabled it to make use of employment opportunities at home and abroad.
7th April 2006	PM’s speech at 21st Raising Day of SPG
	All this demands a high degree of professionalism, skill and an awareness of modern technology.
15th August 2006	Prime Ministers Independence Day Speech August 2006
	Mission on Vocational Education to be launched to bridge "skill deficit"
5th October 2006	PM’s opening remarks at the 54th meeting of the National Development Council
	We need a greatly expanded supply of educated and skilled labour to support our ambitious growth targets. Education is also our best hope for achieving inclusiveness and for spreading development to backward regions and marginalized groups.
4th November 2006	PM Inaugurates Flextronics Industrial Park
	I am also aware that as the IT and electronics sectors grow rapidly, we are going to be faced with a shortage of employees with essential skills. The government is therefore committed to setting up a Mission on Vocational Education to improve the skill base of our people.
5th December 2006	PM’s speech at Golden Jubilee of Administrative Staff College of India
	The high salaries and a high attrition rate in the private sector are a sign of supply constraints and competition for good talent. We are, therefore, opening new institutions at various levels of the knowledge pyramid, with particular emphasis on a Vocational Education Mission, to meet this skill shortage.
9th December 2006	PM’s address at the Meeting of National Development Council 2006
	In addition to general education, we need to do much more on skill development. For example, we are currently planning on upgrading 500 ITIs but probably need to double the 6000 ITIs we have over the next 5 years and also upgrade them all.
18th January 2007	PM Inaugurates south Asian Conference on Home Workers
	Our Government has been giving high priority to skill development of workers. The Approach Paper to the Eleventh Plan commits us to increasing funds for vocational training substantially.
9th February 2007	PM’s address at NASSCOM 2007:India Leadership Forum
	the short-term, medium-term and 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.
28th February 2007	Transcript of PM’s Post Budget interview to DD
	Also we need to improve the skill level of the youth. Therefore we need lot more emphasis on secondary education, or on those who leave the primary education and at the same time, strengthening the vocationalisation of education.
27th April 2007	PM’s address at the 41st session of Indian Labour Conference
	The challenge before us is to increase the skilled workforce from about 5% at present to about 50%, which is the norm, I believe, in many developed countries. To make our working people employable we must create adequate infrastructure for skilled training and certification and for imparting training, industrial training institutes
24th May 2007	PM’s address at CII annual general meeting – 2007
	We must invest in skill-building and education to make our youth employable. Here too, I appreciate the CII’s initiative CII in upgrading ITIs.
14th July 2007	Progress in promoting affirmative action by Industry reviewed
	In addition, they also agreed that skill development efforts through other mechanisms and institutions are also needed, particularly in those districts where there is heavy concentration of SC/ST population.
30th August 2007	PM’s speech at the National Awards function for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
	We have also taken up skill development as a high priority area. I have recently announced our decision to set up a National Mission on Vocational Education and Skill Development
1st September 2007	PM’s Valedictory address at the Texsummit 2007
	The National Skill Development Mission which is being launched will also supplement the availability of skilled manpower.
15th October 2007	PM’s address at the joint Session of the Nigerian National Assembly
	We will emphasize skill development in emerging sectors of the new global economy
17th October 2007	PM’s intervention at the "Social Development Strategy for IBSA"
	While growth processes may be favourable, it is essential that people are empowered and enabled to become active participants in these processes. The key to this is education and skill development.
12th December 2007	PM Inaugurates India Telecom – 2007
	The major constraints I foresee are the availability of skilled manpower and of high quality infrastructure. The infrastructure needs of the country are in excess of 450 billion US dollars in the next five years and we need to work towards facilitating investment on such a large, massive scale.
18th December 2007	PM chairs meeting of the Trade and Industry Council
	The participants universally emphasized the need to expand educational and skill development opportunities in India to address the growing shortage of a variety of skilled and qualified persons.
19th December 2007	PM’s opening remarks at the 54th meeting of the National Development Council
	Education is an area of special focus in the XI Plan. Already, we can see that faster growth is leading to skill shortages and increases in wages and salaries for people with the right type of skills.
28th December 2007	PM’s address at the Goa University Convocation
	Our Government is launching the National Skill Development Mission. This mission will enable us to augment and create a diverse and wide range of skills for our youth.
15th January 2008	PM’s address at the Chinese Academy of Social sciences
	Education, including skill development, is among our major priorities. We propose to triple the share of Central government spending on education and skill development from less than 8 per cent of total plan expenditure in the Tenth Plan to over 19 per cent in the Eleventh Plan.
15th February 2008	PM Inaugurates 80th annual general meeting of FICCI
	The Government will unfold very shortly a massive mission design to upgrade the quantity and quality of skill formation in our country.
18th March 2008	PM’s address at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry
	Our challenge in the 11th Plan is to increase the skill base to make this sector competitive. The National Skill Development Mission has already identified this as a thrust area of endeavour.
22nd April 2008	PM’s speech at the function to mark the Centenary of Tata steel
	We have launched a National Skill Development Mission; we are modernizing our Industrial Training Institutes so that our youth can acquire the skills that open doors to new employment opportunities. I have invited the private sector to be a partner in this process of skill creation and empowerment of our people.
July 3, 2008	PM constitutes National Council on Skill Development
	The Government has constituted the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development. The Council will be an apex body that will guide activities for skill development in the country
22nd July 2008	PM’s reply to the debate on the Motion of Confidence in the Lok Sabha
	A nation wide Skill Development Programme and the enactment of the Right to Education Act,
15th August 2008	PM’s Independence day speech 2008
	We have established a new Skill Development Mission which will work under the supervision of the Prime Minister. A Skill Development Corporation will be created by the Government with the active participation of the private sector to give special training to our young men and women, our workers and our technicians.
26th August 2008	PM’s address Students and Faculty of IIT, Guwathi
	We are also implementing a massive National Initiative for Skill Development. It will provide our youth with vocational and professional educational opportunities to realize their individual potential and create a globally competitive India.
30th August 2008 Press release	PM’s writes to Chief Minister Suggesting use of Public education Infrastructure, for skill Development
	This consists of a National Council for Skill Development chaired by the Prime Minister, a National Skill Development Coordination Board coordinated by the Planning Commission to combine public and private prongs of action and a National Skill Development Corporation as a non-profit company catalysed by the Ministry of Finance to promote skill development in the private sector.
30th August 2008	PM’s address at the Presenbtation of National Awards to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
	With one of the youngest populations in the world, India is estimated to have the capacity to create 500 million skilled and trained technicians by the year 2020 and claim a fourth of the global workforce.
30th September 2008	PM’s speech at the Indo-EU Business Summit
	Innovative ways to promote vocational training including through its integration into our secondary school programs is a priority for my Government. I see clear synergies between your strengths and our needs in skill development.
9th November 2008	PM’s speech at the Indian Community Reception in Oman
	Our economy is expanding rapidly. New opportunities for our youth are emerging every day. Our Government has embarked on the largest education, social welfare, skill development and employment generation programmes in the history of our country.
9th September 2009	PM’s address at the Conference of State Ministers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
	He NRLM is intended to achieve the next level of security, i.e. security of employment assurance through achievement of its objective of skill development and promotion of self-employment
13th September 2007	PM’s remarks at the planning commission meeting.
	Set up a Work Group for suggesting specific remarks agenda in this area.
26th August 2008	Prime Minister’s address to Students and Faculty of IIT-Guwahati.
	To have the surplus 47 million working age people.

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