Monday 21 July 2014

Mission 12 Million!

By 2022, India’s economic engine may require over 500 million skilled people. Now getting to this figure may not be possible. What is possible as of now is to take little steps, one after another.

NSDC – National Skill Development Corporation – has been taking these little steps in association with some leading training organisations, such as Centum Learning. And together – through the Joint Venture created by NSDC and Centum Learning - they have set the target of skilling and placing over 12 million youth across sectors, which include auto and auto components, building and construction materials, healthcare, textiles, real estate services, electronics and IT hardware, organised retail, and tourism & hospitality.

With their eyes set on ‘skilling and placing 12 million youth’, these organisations offer various employability programs that in turn create corporate ready workforce.

In all these decades, we have grown in numbers, but we still have miles to go to when it comes to having the right skills for the right job. Despite availability of millions of jobs across sectors, industries are facing an acute short of skilled workforce. And this shortage can be overcome only when companies, like Centum Learning (which is a highly reputed NSDC partner), keep on rolling out employability programs and take them to the remotest corners of India.

True, little steps are what we need; the good thing is we have started taking them.