Skill Development

Objectives

For harnessing the demographic advantage that it enjoys, India needs to build the capacity and infrastructure for skilling/reskilling/up-skilling existing and new entrants to the labour force. The goals to be met until 2022-23 are as follows:

• Increase the proportion of formally skilled labour from the current 5.4 per cent of India’s workforce to at least 15 per cent.
• Ensure inclusivity and reduce divisions based on gender, location, organized/unorganized, etc.
• India’s skill development infrastructure should be brought on par with global standards by.
  • Developing internationally compliant National Occupation Standards (NOS) and the Qualification Packs (QP) that define a job role.
  • Making all training compliant with the ....