State Project livelihood College Society will be registering firms having a proven track record in imparting skill development training for providing training to the youth of Chhattisgarh in livelihood Colleges, officials informed.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh Right of Youth to Skill Development Act, 2013 grants every person between the ages of 14 and 45 years the right to develop her or his skills.
From among notified skills, subject only to meeting eligibility requirements, and District Skill Development Authorities set up under District Collectors are bound to provide skill development training within 90 days of receiving any demand in this behalf.
The Government of Chhattisgarh is also conscious of the need to expand residential training facilities to secure the exercise of this right by those living in remote and under-served areas, officials informed.
A unique initiative in the form of a livelihood College was successfully piloted in Dantewada district in South Bastar.
Youth in this predominantly tribal district and backward district are being provided training in a range of skills since 2011. This district-level initiative has now been replicated in other districts of the state. To place the livelihood College initiative on a robust foundation through strong employment linkage, and to create a network of such livelihood Colleges to provide a range of livelihood opportunities for youth from across the State, including in partnership with the private sector, the State Government has established the State Project livelihood College Society .
The Central Government has supported the initiative through a one-time Additional Central Assistance for meeting infrastructure costs, while recurring costs are being borne by the State. The training costs are being met from the Skill Development Initiative Scheme of the Union Ministry of labour and Employment and the State’s unique skill development convergence scheme, Mukhya Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (MMKVY), in which skill development schemes and funds from Government departments are being converged on the pattern of the Skill Development Initiative Scheme.
livelihood Colleges are envisaged as having an annual training capacity of about 1,000 youth. Each College is offering training in around five-six sectors. The size of a batch of trainees in any sector ranges between 20 and 30. However, multiple batches may run concurrently in 16 of 33 sectors.
Chhattisgarh received Rs 352.82 crore for Vocationalisation of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (VS&HSE) during the current financial year, the Central Government has informed.
Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship through National Skill Development Corporation is supporting Ministry of Human Resource and Development and State Government for implementation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Vocationalisation of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (VS&HSE) and also supporting UGC for the curriculum alignment / assessments of the three schemes namely Community College, Bachelor of Vocation (B.Voc) & DDU Kaushal Kendras which is being introduced in colleges and universities.
The Central Government has already started inviting project proposals under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) in Chhattisgarh to provide a major boost to skill development of rural youth.
It may be recalled that Technical Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey had informed during budget session of Chhattisgarh Assembly in March last year that a total of 93,264 youth were trained in 2016-17 in all the 27 districts of the State under the Skill Development Programme.
In a written reply to BJP member Shivratan Sharma, the Minister had informed that out of 93,264 trained youth, 27116 got employment.
The State Public Works Department (PWD) has also embarked upon the work of constructing 17 new buildings for Polytechnic colleges at a cost of Rs 139 crore in 15 districts in the fiscal 2016-17.
PWD Minister Rajesh Munat had stated that four Polytechnic college buildings at a cost of Rs 31 crore had already been completed.
The construction works on the other 13 college buildings had been going on at a rapid pace. The Polytechnic college buildings had been completed at Mahasamund, Rajnandgaon,Baloda Bazar-Batapara districts and expansion plans are underway at Durg district, he said.
Munat said that 13 Polytechnic colleges buildings are being constructed in 12 districts at a cost of Rs 107.95 crore.
New Polytechnic colleges were sanctioned for Chhattisgarh during April 2015.
The colleges were established under the 11th Five Year Plan as part of Central government's Sub-mission on Polytechnic under the coordinated action for skill development.
The Polytechnic colleges are being established in states having less number of Polytechnic colleges, officials informed.
Officials further said under this scheme already nine out of 11 Polytechnic colleges have already been established in Koriya, Jashpur, Kanker, Narayanpur, Bijapur, Ramanujganj, Bilaspur, Raipur and Bastar.
In Dantewada the Polytechnic College has been established with help of NMDC while in Janjgir Champa the State government has set up the college.
The Central government last year announced that it will open one new Polytechnic colleges each in Kondagaon and Surajpur districts.
The Central government has provided assistance of Rs 12.30 crore for opening these colleges. Out of sanctioned amount Rs 8 crore would be invested for building construction while Rs 4.30 crore would be spent on equipment, furniture etc.
The State government for academic session 2014-15 has already started a Polytechnic college in Baloda Bazaar and Bhatapara each.
There is limited participation of the private sector in skill development space in Chhattisgarh, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) had observed in its study report last year.
Notably, the NSDC had got carried out a ‘skill gap study' for the State of Chhattisgarh’ recently.
The NSDC in its recommendation had advised the State government to form ‘State-level Industry-Vocational Education Council’ in collaboration with existing industry bodies.
Under the tie-up, the industry bodies could be tasked with facilitation of industry participation in design and delivery of courses and skill development programmes, it has advised.
It also recommended Employee satisfaction survey with on/off campus companies.
The NSDC advised facilitation of two-way sabbatical /exchange programme between industry and ITIs to address issue of industry orientation of faculty.
District-level incremental manpower requirements estimation indicates that the districts of Raipur, Durg, Bilaspur, Korba and Raigarh account for around 47 per cent of the manpower requirement with most incremental demand to be generated in sectors such as Agriculture, manufacturing( mineral and metal based), building an construction, mining and quarrying and trade ( wholesale and retail), it had observed in its report.
In terms of manpower supply, the estimated incremental supply over the aforesaid period is around 34.27 lakh.The proportion of incremental supply of skilled manpower is 55 per cent compared to 27 per cent of semi skilled and 18 per cent of skilled manpower ( 2012-22).
During the period 2012-22, the incremental demand supply of the State to be a surplus of about 3.83 lakhs i.e. the State will have excess of incremental manpower supply. While a shortage of manpower is likely to be expected across semi-skilled (0.72 lakhs) segment, an excess supply is estimated in the skilled (1.34 lakhs) and minimally skilled (3.21 lakhs segment), it observed.