India will need 119m more skilled workers
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Study Shows Requirement By 2022
Around 119 million additional skilled work force will be required by 24 sectors such as construc tion, retail, transportation logistics, automobile, and handloom by 2022, says a government report. Accord ing to the skills gap report commissioned by National Skill Development Corpora tion, most of the sectors ex cept agriculture will require more skilled workforce in the next seven years.Among the major sec tors, building, construction & real estate would require additional skilled workforce of 31.13 million, followed by retail 17.3 million, transportation and logistics 11.66 million and beauty & well ness 10.09 million. The report found that 7.18 million additional workforce would be required by furniture and furnishing, 6.48 million by tourism, hospitality and travel, 6.14 million by hand looms & handicraft, 3.9 mil lion required by auto & auto components and 900,000 by media & entertainment.
The employment base of agriculture was 24 crore peo ple in 2013. However, the pro jected number of skilled workforce in the sector by 2022 is pegged at 21.56 crore showing a reduction of 2.48 crore people in the incremental human resource requirement. It was found that the incremental human resource requirement across 24 sectors is nearly 119 million (11 crore 90 lakh) whereby the top 10 sectors including automobile, retail, handloom, leather, etc. account for about 80% of requirements.
“The idea behind the skill gap studies is to understand the sectors in which we are likely to face the biggest gaps. It is imperative for us to plan the skilling of fu ture workforce of India on the basis of these reports,“ said minister for skills development & entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The minister added, “These reports will be used for the implementation of the recently announced Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana; for state skill missions and for various other skill initiatives being planned across the country.“
Bridging the skill shortage has been identified as key focus area of the Modi government.
Gadkari raises Vadra issue to target Cong
Terming the Land Acquisition Ordinance as pro-farmer, T Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday attacked Congress for opposing the proposed law and sought to know why it was not bothered about Social Impact Assessment issue when Robert Vadra's firm bought land in Haryana. “Congress didn't bother to talk about SIA when land was given to Robert Vadra in Haryana,“ he said in Panaji. “But now when we acquire land for development projects, Congress remembers SIA. They have double standards,“ he added. He said the opposition to Land Acquisition Ordinance was politically motivated and claimed it favours farmers. Gadkari rubbished suggestions that farmers would be forced to commit suicide if the amended land law being pushed by the Modi government comes into force. PTI
The employment base of agriculture was 24 crore peo ple in 2013. However, the pro jected number of skilled workforce in the sector by 2022 is pegged at 21.56 crore showing a reduction of 2.48 crore people in the incremental human resource requirement. It was found that the incremental human resource requirement across 24 sectors is nearly 119 million (11 crore 90 lakh) whereby the top 10 sectors including automobile, retail, handloom, leather, etc. account for about 80% of requirements.
“The idea behind the skill gap studies is to understand the sectors in which we are likely to face the biggest gaps. It is imperative for us to plan the skilling of fu ture workforce of India on the basis of these reports,“ said minister for skills development & entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The minister added, “These reports will be used for the implementation of the recently announced Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana; for state skill missions and for various other skill initiatives being planned across the country.“
Bridging the skill shortage has been identified as key focus area of the Modi government.
Gadkari raises Vadra issue to target Cong
Terming the Land Acquisition Ordinance as pro-farmer, T Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday attacked Congress for opposing the proposed law and sought to know why it was not bothered about Social Impact Assessment issue when Robert Vadra's firm bought land in Haryana. “Congress didn't bother to talk about SIA when land was given to Robert Vadra in Haryana,“ he said in Panaji. “But now when we acquire land for development projects, Congress remembers SIA. They have double standards,“ he added. He said the opposition to Land Acquisition Ordinance was politically motivated and claimed it favours farmers. Gadkari rubbished suggestions that farmers would be forced to commit suicide if the amended land law being pushed by the Modi government comes into force. PTI
