Government, private players get together to impart digital skills to youth through digital public infra model
Skilling programmes cannot have only supply-focused training mechanisms. Whether one gets skilled through formal college education or through vocational skilling programmes or through professional certificates, these programmes need to anticipate industry-based jobs demand and accordingly plan the required skilling.
The actions to implement this are required at multiple levels. Some of the methods needed include public-private partnerships. Recently, the Ministry of Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed eight memoranda of understanding (MOUs) to address this gap.
One of the MOUs was with IBM. This covered skilling at the school level, higher education level and through vocational avenues.
In higher education, the plan through this partnership is to work with the Department of Higher Education, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh, and state skilling missions. The students are expected to be given access to digital content, experiential learning, and new skills for technical careers.
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The New Education Policy has prioritised vocational skilling in line with other higher educational programmes to focus on job-readiness. As part of the plan for vocational skilling, the focus is to work with the MSDE, the Directorate General of Training (DGT), the respective state vocational education and skilling departments to help potential students get access to the technical and professional skills required to enter the workforce.
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