National Skill Policy 2015

(Ver. 6.0)

Shankar Dutt
May-2019

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Contents

1 Vision/Mission/Objectives

2 Policy Framework

AGENDA 3 Governance Structure

4 Financing

5 Monitoring & Evaluation

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Vision

To create an ecosystem of empowerment

- by Skilling on a large Scale
- at Speed with high Standards and
- to promote a culture of innovation based entrepreneurship
- which can generate wealth and employment
- to ensure sustainable livelihoods for all citizens in the
country

A Vision Statement describes the desired future position of the organisation

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Mission

- Create a demand for skilling across the country;

- Align skilling with required competencies;
- Connect the supply of skilled human resources
with sectoral demands;
- Certify and assess in alignment with global and
national standards

A Mission Statement defines the company's business and its approach

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Objectives

The core objective of the Policy is

- to empower the individual
- by enabling her/him to realize her/his full potential
- through a process of lifelong learning
- where competencies are accumulated
- via instruments such as credible certifications, credit
accumulation and transfer, etc.
As individuals grow, the society and nation also
benefit from their productivity and growth. This will
involve……

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Policy Objectives
So that on one hand
results in increased
Ensure pathways to skilled employability and better
workforce for further livelihoods for individuals,
(3)
growth by providing (2) and on the other hand
seamless integration of Outcome translates into improved
skill training with formal Growth productivity
based
education Opportuniti
Approach
es
Address human
(4) resource needs by
aligning supply of
Address skilled workers
with sectoral
Demand with
Whereby youth sees it
as a matter of choice Policy Supply &
requirements of
industry. Develop
(1)
and employer
acknowledges the
Make Skills
Objectives LMIS LMIS

productivity linked to
skilled workforce by Training
paying the requisite Attractive
premium
(5) Ensure that the skilling
Need of needs of the socially and
(6) special geographically
Promote national standards in the skilling disadvantaged and
space through active involvement of Industry categories marginalized groups (like
employers in setting occupational standards, Involvement the SCs, STs, OBCs,
helping develop curriculum, providing minorities, differently
apprenticeship opportunities, participating in abled persons etc.) are
assessments, and providing gainful appropriately taken care
employment to skilled workforce with of
adequate compensation
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Policy Framework
The framework outlines 11 major enablers to achieve the objectives
1. Aspiration and Advocacy

2. Capacity

3. Quality

4. Synergy

5. Mobilization and Engagement

6. Global Partnerships

7. Outreach

8. ICT Enablement

9. Trainers & Assessors

10. Inclusivity

11. Promotion of Skilling among Women

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 Policy Framework – Aspiration & Advocacy
• For skill training to be looked at as a matter of
choice, it must provide vertical growth pathways
on the lines of the general education system

1
Matter of Skilling will be integrated
Choice with higher education with
• PM’s Skill Development 2
6 polytechnics offering NSQF
Fellowship to tap Integration
Increased aligned vocational courses
talented individuals to with Higher
Awareness and Bachelor of Vocational
spread awareness Education Studies degrees
about skill
development
Aspirations
&
• Good counselling will be 5 Advocacy 3 • Government & industry will
useful to create Priority in promote use of certified,
Counselling skilled manpower for its
aspiration, reduce the Employment
attrition rates during work and projects through
training and 4 enabling provisions in their
employment by helping contracts
Promotion
candidates make
informed choices

• National Skills Universities and institutes will be

promoted in partnership with States as centres of
excellence for skill development and training of
trainers

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Policy Framework – Capacity
New ITIs will be set up in
PPP mode especially in
Government will support unserved blocks of the
the creation and use of country to expand
infrastructure in both (3) outreach of skilling
public and private domain Expand programmes
through appropriate (2)
Outreach
equity, grant and loan Govt. Support
support
Special focus will
be laid on youth
who do not wish
(4) to continue with
school or higher
Identify Right education so that
Focus will move from Capacity Target they are provided
inputs to outcomes of (1) Groups
skills for other
sustainable
skill training that Outcome livelihood options
include employability
and placements of based
trainees. Incentives will
be linked to placement
in all training (5) The human resource
institutions
Aligning requirements of the
(6) Supply with country will be addressed
by aligning the supply and
Private Sector Demand composition of skilled
Private Sector initiatives
in skilling will be
Involvement workers with demand.
Training providers will be
encouraged incentivized

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Policy Framework – Quality
The following parameters have been identified for improving quality to help Indian youth
aspiring job opportunities anywhere in the world
Consistent • Quality assurance framework embedded in NSQF
outcomes

• Market relevant training programmes – SSC led training materials

Market Need based
under NSQF

Recognition of Prior • Include a pre-assessment, skill gap training and final assessment
Learning leading to certification of existing skills in an individual

• Through sector mentor committees which will include

Curriculum representatives from concerned SSCs, sector experts and
Alignment relevant academia, so as to ensure that the curricula is in sync
with emerging market

Certification • Laying down a national framework for all certification in the skill
Framework space through an autonomous body

• Shall include basic modules of computer literacy, finance,

Employability Skills language and soft skills like etiquettes, appreciating gender
diversity in workplace

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Policy Framework – Synergy
(MSDE) to notify common norms for rationalization
of funding/cost norms for Central Government
Schemes on Skill Development run by different
ministries. However, different ministries will be
free to frame schemes at their discretion to meet
local/sectoral needs while adhering to common
norms
Common Norms
Synergy
SSDMs in the States Alignment with Make
in India
States will be encouraged to converge all skills
development activities under a single entity like
SSDMs in some of the states. States databases will
be integrated with LMIS
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A national Labour Market Information System (LMIS) will
be created as part of National Portal. This will contain
socio-economic data in modules on (i) supply side
skilled labour force statistics (ii) demand of skilled /
unskilled labour (iii) market trends like wage structures
and distribution, economic growth trends across
sectors, focus areas for skilled manpower, occupational
shortages etc.
LMIS
Skilling efforts will be completely aligned with the
requirements of 25 key identified sectors of Make in
India. Make in India could be leveraged to increase
industry participation in skills through PPP mode
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Policy Framework – Mobilization & Engagement
Recognition
Industry will be encouraged
to increasingly move towards
employing only certified
skilled people.
In addition, employers need
to rationalize the
compensation paid across
different levels of skills to
award a skill premium for
increased productivity as a
result of higher skills
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Industry Support Trades
Skill Development is a shared Every training provider (TP)
responsibility of both including ITIs should tie up
Government as well as with industry in the relevant
industry. trades to improve placement
opportunities for candidates.
At least 2% of its payroll bill
(including for contract Similarly, every industry
labour) needs to be spent for should also tie up with
skill development initiatives suitable training centre(s) in
in their respective sector its vicinity for supply of
skilled workforce and
apprentices
Industry should actively
participate in designing
curricula and standards and
delivery for skill training
courses also
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 Policy Framework – Global Partnership
Main Objective is to leverage best practices from across the world
Foreign Governments, corporate and agencies will also be
encouraged to set up skill centres and universities as well as
participate in content creation, design of curricula and delivery
of training. Exchange and capacity building programmes for
teachers, administrators and students will be facilitated

Foreign Tie-ups
Labour mobility is the
only long term solution
for sustaining global
growth rates.
The National
According to US Census Global Skills
Bureau estimate, by
2022, countries like Partnershi Qualifications
Framework will
USA, UK and China will p be aligned to
fall short of skilled
globally
labour by 17 million, 2
recognized
million and 10 million
qualification
respectively while India NSQF frameworks for
will have a surplus of Labour Mobility Alignment ensuring quality
almost 47 million in the
Globally and uniformity
age group of 19-59
years
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 Policy Framework – Outreach
The proposed KVKs will play a key role in
identifying local employment
opportunities and providing adequate
training and post-training support
Local according to needs of local areas such as
Inability to pay Opportunities migration support for skilled workers,
training fees language, etc
should not
stop any More than 93% of India
citizen in the workforce is in the
country from unorganized sector.
acquiring Hence strengthening
certified skill Skills of and certifying the skills
training. Funding Focus on Unorganized of the unorganized
Government Sectors workforce will
will promote contribute to overall
grant of economic development
scholarships, of this sector
rewards for To develop the
funding of unorganized sector,
training costs LMIS will be used to
LMIS aggregate the
availability of labour
along with their
certified skill levels
that can help some of
them to move to
organized
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Policy Framework – ICT Enablement

Use of Mobile
Technology Central LMIS
Applications

The use of
technology will be A responsive central Private sector will
leveraged to scale LMIS will be created be encouraged to
up e-content for aggregating develop mobile
development and demand and supply applications for
same would be of skills to help align aggregating informal
delivered cost efforts towards sector workers such
effectively in a bridging the existing as plumbers,
standard way and expected skill carpenters etc. for
gaps household services

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Policy Framework – Trainers and Assessors
Government will bring more
experienced people in training
and assessment space,
1. Engaging
especially ex-servicemen in
Other
defence and retired/working Stakeholders
people from industry

A trainer/assessor
portal (
http://www.skillin
Centres of dia.gov.in
Excellence, ) will be set up as
under the 4. Set up Trainers & 2. Trainers/ a part of the
proposed Assessors National Portal to
COEs
National Skills Assessors Portal act as a repository
and registration
Universities, will
also be set up to database for all
ensure certified and
continuous interested
supply of quality trainers/assessors.
trainers in each
sector 3. Set up New institutes for
New training of trainers will
Institutes be set up in PPP mode,
at least one in each
State, to increase the
overall capacity of ToT in
the
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Policy Framework – Inclusivity
One of the key objectives is to safeguard the
skilling needs of SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities,
and differently abled persons, as well as
those living in difficult geographical pockets

Cover Socially
disadvantage
groups

Inclusivit
Special attention will
be given to youth in y
border, hilly and
difficult areas,
including North Adequate focus will
Eastern states, J&K, be given to youth
and the hilly forested Cover Special Cover Rural from rural/ deprived
areas of central and Areas Poor Areas households by
eastern India to establishing skill
address their needs development centres
for employment and in areas which are
employability underserved

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Policy Framework – Women Skilling

An internet or mobile based women account for 48% of

Specific IT Importance
platform for women Platforms
the entire population in

employment, by connecting India.

skilled women and With the help of skilling,

employers, will be women can have viable

Women Skilling
promoted. This platform incomes, decent work and

could focus on women be major players who can

willing to re-enter the contribute equally to the

Exclusive Delivery
Institutes Mechanism Special mechanisms in the
workforce after a break and economic growth of the
New institutes exclusively
those affected by migration delivery of training such as
for training of women as country
mobile training units,
trainees and trainers, will
flexible afternoon batches,
also be promoted by
training based on the local
Government
needs of the area, will be

introduced to ensure

participation
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Governance Structure
• Frames Policies,
Guidelines &
Standards
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship • Monitoring &
or

Implementation
National Policy f

Support
Tier-1: Ministry of • Invest GOI
XXXX component in
projects

• Ensure compliance
with Stds
• Monitoring &
Implementation
NSDA2 NSDC3
(Promote Skill DGT4 Support
(Quality, Stds, (Upgradation of Tier-2: State • Invest GOI
Research, Environment)
existing Infra.) Governments component in
NSQF, etc.)
projects

SSCs5 NCVT6
(Curriculum,
Assessment/
(Lab Stds./ Tier-3: PIAs
Apprenticeship)
certification)

• Skill Gaps Analysis

Covers Skill demand, Aspiration for skill, Training, NSQF, CCN, Outcomes • Planning &
Implementation
 Mobilization
 Training
 Assessment
 Placement

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Governance Structure - NSDA
NSDA was set up as a Society in June 2013 to majorly perform the following activities:

Operationalise and implement National Skills

Qualification Framework (NSQF)
Operationalize
NSQF

Anchor Prime NSDA Design and implement the

Minister Skill Anchor National Labour Market
Activitie LMIS
Development Fellow PMSDF Information System
Programme s

Develop
Protocols Develop national protocols for
registration and accreditation
of private training providers

National Skills Research Division (NSRD), under NSDA will be established as an apex
division for providing technical and research support to the Mission. Its four key
functions will include research, policy advisory/inputs, career support and knowledge
exchange networks

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Governance Structure - NSDC
NSDC, a Public Private Partnership was set up in 2008 under Companies
Act 1956 with shareholding of GOI 49% and private sector 51%. It is the
nodal organization for all private sector initiatives in the short term
skilling space. Its mandate will primarily include the following:
Catalyse the creation of market-based,
scalable business by providing funding
through a combination of loan, equity
and grants
1. Catalyze
Business
Environment

Discharge any
other function as 5. Other 2. Engage Driving engagement
Functions with Industry
may be assigned NSDC with industry and
to it by the businesses
Ministry Functions

4. Set up 3. Set up Promote centres of excellence

Initiating Sector Skills SSCs COE for training of trainers in co-
Councils (SSCs)
ordination with States and SSCs

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Governance Structure - DGT
DGT is responsible for maintaining existing skill training structures. Its
large institutional framework consisting of ITIs, ATIs, RVTIs and other
national institutes will act as tools of execution for Mission activities.
Other functions will include:
Setting up framework for structure of
courses, assessment, curricula creation,
affiliation and accreditation of institutes,
under NCVT
1.
Operationalise
Framework
various training Setting Develop national
schemes through ITIs standards on syllabi,
and Vocational 5. equipment, scale of
2.
Training Providers Operationalise space, duration of
Standards
(VTPs) Various
Schemes DGT Development courses and methods
of training
Functions

Run training 3.
4.
programmes for Coordinating
Run Special Functions of Coordinate functioning of
trainers/instructors & Training ITIs Industrial Training Institutes
special institutes for (ITIs)
training of women

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Governance Structure - SSCs

SSCs are industry-led and industry-governed bodies, which help link the
requirements of industry with appropriately trained manpower. SSCs discharge
the following functions:
1) Identification of skill development needs including preparing a catalogue of
types of skills, range and depth of skills to facilitate individuals to choose
from
2) Development of a sector skill development plan and maintain skill inventory
3) Determining skills/competency standards and qualifications and getting
them notified as per NSQF
4) Standardization of affiliation, accreditation, examination and certification
process in accordance with NSQF as determined by NSQC. May also conduct
skill based assessment and certification for QP /NOS aligned training
programmes
5) Plan and facilitate the execution of Training of Trainers along with NSDC
and States
7) Lay special emphasis on the skilling needs of ST/SC, differently abled and
minority populations

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Financing
National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) has been set up by Government of India with the objective of
encouraging skill development in the country. A public Trust set up by Government of India is the
custodian of the Fund. The Fund acts as a receptacle for all donations, contribution in cash or kind
from all Contributors (including Government, multilateral organizations, corporations etc.) for
furtherance of the objectives of the Fund
To attract funds from industry,
companies will be encouraged to
From CSR spend at least 25% of their Corporate
Funds Social Responsibility (CSR) funds on
skill development initiatives directly
or through NSDF

All Government schemes

Industry should earmark at across sectors will be
least 2% of its payroll bill
(including for contract
NSDF encouraged to apportion a
certain percentage (10%)
labour) for skill of the scheme budget
development initiatives in Statutory towards skilling of human
their respective sectors. Contribution From Govt. resources in local regions
These funds can be from Schemes in the required sector.
channelized for skill Companies These funds could be used
development activities for implementation
either through respective directly or be routed
SSCs or through NSDF through NSDF

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Monitoring and Evaluation
1) The main idea of having a robust monitoring and evaluation mechanism is to ensure
successful implementation of the policy initiatives

2) Government desires to set up a Policy Implementation Unit(PIU) so as to review the

implementation and progress of the various initiatives under this policy. The PIU will be
housed in MSDE with Secretary as the Chairperson and representation from NITI Aayog

List all the action points as

mentioned in the policy on
which further action is
required
List of
Action
Points

Identify all the agencies

Actions involved and map the
The PIU will also Function
Reviews mapped to actionable points to the
conduct monthly review s of PIU
Agencies
responsible agency
of the action points

To act as a coordinating body for all the

Coordination
implementing agencies and support them
to enhance their efficiency
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Questions / Feedback

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