National skill policy to be rolled out soon
Union minister for skill development and entrepreneurship Rajiv Prathap Rudy inaugurates the Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Skilling at a city hospital on Friday (Photo Credit: DC)
Chennai: The Centre is taking efforts to come up with a legislation to set up a Skill Development University and holding consultations with state governments and other stakeholders in this regard, Union minister of state for skill development Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here on Friday. “We are trying to put in place a statute, it is in the draft stages and consultations with State governments, stakeholders are on and we would like the university to come up in states which would actually be the delivery point,” Rudy told reporters
here.
Stating that it would be a “skill development university,” he said (formal) education will, however, be incorporated “but focus will be on skills and its development.” “In three months, we will roll out the National Skill Development Policy 2015,” he added. Also, a proposal to launch a national mission for Skill Development, on the lines of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was being deliberated, he added.
Earlier, after inaugurating the Apollo Hospitals’ first Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Skilling here, he presented statistics related to global skilled workforce and the need for the country to develop on similar lines. Earlier at a function, he said retrenchments in the IT sector was a matter of concern and the challenge was to see jobs do not shrink.
( Source : dc correspondent with agency inputs )
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