Khandu said the report will serve as a roadmap for the state government to plan its future course of action in imparting skill development to the youths of the state.
Directing the Skill Development department to seriously take the report, Khandu gave it one month's time to prepare a comprehensive proposal and action plan based on the suggestions put forth in the report.
"We have been doing a lot in equipping our youths with skills but yet somehow have not fully succeeded in giving the process a meaningful direction because we did not have a proper and scientific roadmap.
The chief minister suggested that priority needs to be accorded in skilling the graduate and post-graduated unemployed youths besides the uneducated and school drop-outs.
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Khandu also stressed on giving more importance to self-employment than wage employment while framing skill development strategies, an official release said.
He congratulated NEDFi and lauded the hard work put in during the last one year doing the study and collecting feedbacks and data from primary sources at the block levels in all the districts.
The objective is to understand characteristics of skill development system, aspiration and skill development needs of various categories of population and the global, national and local skill requirement trends and suggest suitable strategies to take skill development efforts in the state to next level, the release informed.
The study proposes eight strategic reforms roadmap in skill development sector based on key aspects that have emerged during the study.
The reforms include strengthening the governance framework currently governing the skill development ecosystem, improving the effectiveness and utilisation of existing technical vocational education and training institutions, making provisions for providing specialised skill development training in identified sectors relevant to the state.