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http://mrunal.org/2014/10/hrd-nsda-panel-report-government-intervention-skill-development.html
1. Prologue
2. Whatre the problems?
3. Whatre the solutions?
4. #1: define skill development
5. #2: Decide Outcomes
6. #3: Cash-funding on outcomes
7. #4: Motivate both trainee and trainer
8. #5: Monitor beneficiaries
9. Appendix: NSDA vs NSDC
Prologue
2013, December: Panel to rationalize various skill Development schemes. It gave report in 2014, October.
Relevance: GS Mains 2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and
issues arising out of their design and implementation.
It will be a funny and fruitful exercise if you replace the word skill/skill development in the below article and
substitute with any other word like poverty / unemployment / rural /education / nutrition / healthcare. Then
same fodder can be applied to variety of questions and essay.
Panel Composition:
S.Ramdorai, The chairman of NSDA- National Skill Development agency. Mind it- NSDA and not NSDC.
Officials from two-dozen ministries.
Gives training to fresh entrants / no0bs so they became sellable in labor market.
Give them minimum 200 hours of training.
Re-skilling
Recognition
College
If a given scheme is not doing ONE of the FOUR things listed above, then its not a skill Development
scheme.
In case, you are wondering how can we play word-replacement game on this? Well, Defining a
parameter has always been a controversial exercise. Recall the new Poverty line design by Rangarajan and
how the NATION (Arnab Goswami) and RANGA (the villain) were unhappy because of that.
Same goes for defining malnutrition, Education under Sarva Sikha Abhiyan, productive assets under
MNREGA and so on.
Panel says, beneficiary must be give minimum 1,000 rupees security deposit. Itll be refunded at the end of
program.
This will ensure only Serious players join the program, attend all lectures, learn the concepts and make
handwritten notes seriously.
Although hard to adopt in other sectors e.g. asking BPL family to give refundable deposit before their kid
joins a posh school under 25% reservation quota under right to education act. OR asking a TB patient to
deposit 1000 rupees to ensure he takes DOTS pills on regular basis!
NSDC
Born in 2013
Born in 2009