I am reproducing below the mail received from Prof.Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society on the above topic for the benefit of readers:
Friends:
NMEICT should make special efforts to support the National Skill Development Initiative. In particular, we should tap the NIT faculty and ICAR scientists to prepare content for imparting skills in a variety of technical trades to a large cross section of people. The target audience could be unemployed youth and school dropouts, students at ITIs and Polytechnics and people already employed in farms and MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises).
NMEICT may partner with NGOs to reach out to a large number of potential users of such content. The government would like to create a pool of over 500 million skilled people by 2022. A huge task indeed.
India has the advantage of large numbers. But we need to improve the skill base. Even among university graduates, it is widely conceded that a very large percent is unemployable.
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
Centre for Internet and Society
Friends:
NMEICT should make special efforts to support the National Skill Development Initiative. In particular, we should tap the NIT faculty and ICAR scientists to prepare content for imparting skills in a variety of technical trades to a large cross section of people. The target audience could be unemployed youth and school dropouts, students at ITIs and Polytechnics and people already employed in farms and MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises).
NMEICT may partner with NGOs to reach out to a large number of potential users of such content. The government would like to create a pool of over 500 million skilled people by 2022. A huge task indeed.
India has the advantage of large numbers. But we need to improve the skill base. Even among university graduates, it is widely conceded that a very large percent is unemployable.
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
Centre for Internet and Society
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