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The future trajectory of India’s development depends on both ‘Make in India’ and ‘Skilling India’, says the Survey, adding there is a dual challenge of skilling and employing these in a proper way.
It said a major impediment to the pace of quality job generation in India was because of the small share of manufacturing in total employment, calling for promoting growth of micro, small and medium enterprises. The survey said only 2 per cent of the country’s workforce is skilled, which is much lower than in developing nations.
According to a Labour Bureau report, the number of people aged 15 years who have or are receiving skills is a mere 6.8 per cent. According to the National Skill Development Corporation, there was need of 120 million skilled people in the non-farm sector in 2013-14. To meet the challenge, the Narendra Modi government has created a separate Ministry for Skill Development as also skilling schemes for poor rural youth and minority dropouts
The Survey was also concerned at the deceleration in the compound annual growth rate of employment during the 2004-05 to 2011-12 period to 0.5 per cent from 2.8 per cent during 1999-2000 to 2004-05, against growth rate of 2.9 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively, in the labour force for the same periods.
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