The key issues that need to be addressed in regard to the formal vocational and training sector are:
- Capacity Utilization of private sector ITIs, Polytechnics and degree colleges has been less than 60% in recent years. This is due to several reasons. First, many of these institutions have been set up recently, so it will take some time for them to get established. Second, the quality of instruction in many private institutions is not satisfactory. Third, the employment scenario in recent years has become bleak. This has seriously impacted the admissions and large number of institutions offering MBA / PGDM and MCA degrees have shut down.
- The Existing capacity demands attention to the quality of trainings given and the kind of employability they can lead to. It is estimated that less than 30% of the graduates from ITIs and Polytechnics are able to get gainful employment after completion of course. It therefore becomes essential that quality issues in terms of curriculum and course structure, infrastructure, teachers and employability prospects be addressed.
- Over a period of time, capacity of the vocational sector institutions needs to be increased to address the skewness and also to provide adequate access to the youngsters. For example, the availability of seats per lakh population in ITIs and ITCs is only 74 as compared to the national average of 110. The same situation pertains to the diploma sector.
The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) is being implemented through this department. For the year 2012-13 about 11,700 have been trained out of a total target of 1,25,000 under the Skills Training for Employment Promotion amongst the Urban Poor (STEP-UP) component. The scheme prescribes average cost of per training as Rs 10,000 per capita. About Rs.63 crores are earmarked for the STEP-UP component under SJSRY every year.
The Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) is soon to be replaced by National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). At present, the placement linked skill training under NRLM is being implemented directly by the Central government on the basis of the projects submitted by state government. So far 61 projects have been sanctioned and the department is preparing to get 17 more projects approved.
These Vocational and Technical Education Skill Development Initiative Scheme-Modular Employable Skills (SDI-MES) currently has about 157 VTPs registered. About 1,500 students have been trained under this scheme in the last year. The State has an allocation of ~ Rs. 100 crores under this scheme. There is a need to increase the number of VTPs registered to optimally utilize the funds available under this scheme. The Department of Technical Education runs the Community Development through Polytechnics scheme under which 27,000 students were trained. It currently has a capacity to train about 36,000 students.
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