Haryana Government has started various initiatives to make the youth of the state efficient and employable through the Saksham Haryana scheme, which will prove to be a milestone in the coming time, said an official spokesman
In this series, a state-wide system is being developed for changes in the youth, which will make the youth of Haryana to get employment by preparing them for the needs of the industries at the earliest, he said.
The spokesman said that achieving the mission of Kaushal Bharat (Skill India), which is to train a minimum of 30 crore people across the country by 2022, is an uphill task across states. The Haryana Skill Development and Industrial Training (SDIT) Department is attempting to solve the skilling challenge through a systemic, state-wide transformation programme, Saksham Haryana. A flagship programme of the Haryana Government, Saksham Haryana aims to ensure career advancement of students, who enter Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and who take up short-term training.
This involves the transformation of two key components of skilling, which included ITIs and short-term schemes. It also includes the tying together all efforts in this domain under one umbrella for a coordinated effort. Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) and Samagra, a governance consulting firm, are helping the Department in this endeavor, he said.
Over the last four years, Haryana has been at the forefront of solving a lot of skilling issues on the supply and demand side. Beginning with the Shri Vishwakarma Skill University (SVSU), the India’s first government skills university, the Department anchored the skilling ecosystem in a strong institutional and academic framework. More than 10 top industries such as Bikanervala, HDFC and Concentrix participated in this transformation across 15 courses, the spokesman said.
In the past few months, the Department has also made efforts in addressing the quality of training in ITIs. The Department has begun procuring more than Rs150 crore worth of equipment and machinery for every ITI. As a long-term solution, the Department has initiated recruitment of more than 2,500 permanent staff. By creating a central assessment cell and placement cell, the Department has streamlined work on the quality evaluation of a student’s skills and their linkage to livelihood, he said.
The spokesman further said that the Department has signed over 70 MoUs with various leading industries to support it in piloting DST this academic year. The objective is to make this model scalable and sustainable for a state-wide rollout. DST courses will be structured in a way to ensure students benefit from training with relevant equipment in an industry setting.