This year July 15 will be celebrated as World Youth Skills Day for the first time ever internationally. This day is of utmost importance to our country. India is a country of 1.25 billion people of which 54% are below the age group of 25 years. In India, we have just 2-3% skilled workforce. China, at a population of 1.4 billion people, has around 45 per cent of people who are skilled. UK has 68 to 70 per cent skilled people, Japan at about 80 per cent, Germany 74 per cent and Korea at 96 per cent.
In line with the vision of our Hon’ble Prime Minister of making our country a ‘Skilled Nation’ and also support “Make in India”, it is today, our endeavour to promote skill development for the youth of our country so as to increase their employability and garner growth for the nation. If ever, there was a time to reap India’s demographic dividend – it is now.
Looking at our current demographic dividend and the need in our country, the World Youth Skills Day has even more significance and relevance for us, as we are the youngest nation in the world with the maximum number of youth in the workable population.
It is imperative that the country awakens to the need and importance of skills now and all industries, ministries, states, corporates and individuals should join hands and work towards a common mission mode of making India the Skills Capital of the World.
The National Skill Development Corporation India (NSDC) is a one of its kind, Public Private Partnership in India. It aims to promote skill development by catalysing creation of large, quality, for-profit vocational institutions. It provides funding to build scalable, for-profit vocational training initiatives. Its mandate is also to enable support systems such as quality assurance, information systems and train the trainer academies either directly or through partnerships.
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) was formed to achieve the target of skilling / up- skilling 150 million people by 2022 by fostering private sector initiatives in the skill development space. An objective of skilling 150 million by 2022 Indian means 45000 trainees being certified and graduated every day for the next 10 years.
To support its various initiatives, NSDC is looking at creating an enabling environment by developing a robust research base for skilling. To that end it conduct studies to understand the geographical and sector wise skill requirements and on various subjects that can influence and enable the skilling environment in India.
In spite of companies need to mandatorily spend at least 2% of their net profits on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, there is a huge gap in meeting this requirement due to lack of understanding about CSR policies and practices primarily due to the lack of trained CSR professionals in the country. Companies thus fail to understand the key focus areas of the CSR process flow, delivery, evaluation and reporting as required by the new legislation.
The Short Term Programs aim to enable participants to acquire the skills and competencies required for the effective implementation of CSR policies and practices in accordance with the new legislation.
Overview of CSR in alignment with the new legislation, Translating CSR legislation into practice, In-depth study of CSR Strategy and Policy Formulation and Detailed analysis and understanding of CSR. Each program category will deliver training in relevant areas that leads to optimum CSR performance as per need. Program content will continuously be updated to provide greater impact based on learner feedback, CSR implementation in the country and sector based gap-analysis.