The Border Security Force (BSF), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) are joining hands to provide special skill training to serving, retiring, family members of BSF personnel, martyrs’ families and local population in the area of deployment.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was between BSF, NSDF and NSDC to ensure the successful rollout of NSQF-based skill training at multi-skill development centres run by BSF. This will help in meeting the aspirations of the stakeholders for training and employment.
The National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) based skill training will be unique as the NSQF is a competency-based framework that organises all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude. Under NSQF, these levels, graded from one to ten, are defined in terms of learning outcomes which the learner must possess regardless of whether they are obtained through formal, non-formal or informal learning. NSQF in India was notified on December 27, 2013 superseding all other frameworks, including the NVEQF (National Vocational Educational Qualification Framework) released by the Ministry of HRD. The MoU signed for five years is expected to help retired personnel resettle themselves.