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World Youth Skills Day

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They were trained on operating machines used for injection moulding and plastic processing at the CIPET centre in Murthal, Haryana. This innovative pilot is part of a three-year collaboration between the IKEA Foundation, UNDP, Xyntéo, and the India Development Foundation, that seeks to impact the lives of one million women in India through training, entrepreneurial skill development and employment, as well as to develop a new model of public-private collaboration that can be adapted and replicated across India.

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YOUTH AND SKILLING

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to the lower quality of jobs, greater labour market inequalities, and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. In addition, women are more likely to be underemployed and underpaid, and to undertake part-time jobs or work under temporary contracts. That is why education and training are key determinants of success in the labour market.  Skills and jobs for youth feature prominently in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and SDG target 4.4 calls for a substantial increase in the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]wysd_banner[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1500116099937{background-color: #ededed !important;}”]

YOUTH AND SKILLING IN INDIA

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]India’s economy has grown impressively, with GDP growth rates rising from 5.6% in 2012-13 to 7.6% in 2015-16. The country is poised to grow even faster, with its demographic potential, high investment and savings rates, and allocation of resources for infrastructure. But its high pace of economic growth and notable progress in reducing poverty over the last decade contrasts with the persistent gaps in creating a more inclusive, productive and formal labour market. Investment in skills development will ensure that economic and employment growth is more inclusive. This is especially important in the context of India’s demographic transition that has also produced a youth bulge in the working age population.

The government has set up the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), with an enabling framework to facilitate job creation and entrepreneurship, as well as attract private investment. Steps are also being taken to attract foreign direct investment and catapult manufacturing growth. The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (Skill India Mission) is MSDE’s flagship scheme to enable young Indians to take up industry-relevant skills training and improve their employability. The government’s commitment to ensuring that young Indians are ready to compete in the labour market is demonstrated by the breadth of skilling programmes it has made available: National Apprenticeship Training Scheme, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushal Yojana, National Urban Livelihoods Mission, and the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. The National Career Service, launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, aims to provide job matching services in a transparent and user-friendly manner.

Several national flagship schemes such as Make in India, Start-up India, Stand-up India (a bank loan programme to assist Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and women borrowers to set up a greenfield enterprise), and Digital India, have been launched to spur the creation of more productive and higher skilled micro, small and medium enterprises, which would accelerate labour demand and job creation. The Atal Innovation Mission endeavours to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by providing a platform for the generation and sharing of innovative ideas, alongside an incubator to mentor and support innovators.

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MESSAGE BY SHYAMAL MAJUMDAR

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RELATED INFORMATION

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  •  Decent Work Agenda
    Putting the Decent Work Agenda into practice is achieved through the implementation of the ILO’s four strategic objectives, with gender equality as a crosscutting objective.
  • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee SchemeThe scheme aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
  • India Skills Report 2017
  • National Rural Livelihoods MissionAided in part through investment support by the World Bank, the Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor, enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.
  • National Urban Livelihoods MissionTo reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions of the poor.

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