Pvt sector urged to employ trained, certified workers only

The country's private sector needs to employ only trained and certified workers to make India a global human resource hub and achieve sustainability in skill development, a top official said today.
"It is essential that a seamless industry value chain is created to engage the trained and certified workforce," said Rohit Nandan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship at an event here.
The Secretary said that Sector Skill Councils (SSCs) were created to harmonise the demand for skilled workers required by the industry and the skilling needs to suffice the demand.
"The platform (SSCs) required the private sector to aggregate the demand of the industry and provide information to the government for undertaking skilling of workforce in the right skill, right number and right quality. However, there are still gaps in this area," Nandan said.

The Secretary said that the government had handed over the entire skilling ecosystem to the private sector and it was now up to them to benchmark standards and train the workforce accordingly to make them employable not just within India but also overseas.
He assured that the government would continue to fund various skilling programmes and urged the industry to allocate a part of its CSR funds towards skilling.

The Secretary said that the new wave of development was riding on robotics that would make many jobs redundant. However, the space of robot designing, production, software, electronics could be the explored to create new job opportunities.

If India is able to anticipate the future job scenario then the country would be ready to take the lead in this area like it did in IT sector, he said.
The Secretary pointed out that it was critical to benchmark Indian standards in accordance with international markets.