manthan- building skillsets

Skills Shortage

A new vocational educational model to bridge the gap

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Manthan Topic: Building Skillsets

Team Details

Please note that this a sample presentation to guide the participants to structure their

report. Manthan Team takes no responsibility for the data presented in this report.

India churns out 3 million graduates every year however employability of

these graduates is a major concern

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Employability of technical graduates Disconcerting characteristics of Indian employment

A. Unemployment increases with education: • Illiterates have the lowest unemployment rates while

educated graduates have highest rates • Hypothesis: Mainstream education in India is totally out

of sync of job market requirements B. Unemployment peaks in the most productive age group of

19-35 years: • Unemployment level in Kerala one of the most literate

states has around 35% unemployment in this age group • Hypothesis: Productive youth are unable to find the

employment opportunities they seek C. Urban unemployment higher than rural unemployment

• Rural unemployment at 7% is lower than urban unemployment at 14%

• Hypothesis: Lack of specialized skills of urban youth

Source: National Employability report, National Sample Survey, UGC report, Media reports

17.50%

2.68%

9.22%

36.57% 40.69%

IT Services IT Product KnowledgeProcess

Outsourcing

HardwareNetworking

BusinessProcess

Outsourcing

• Around 75% of technical graduates and 85% of general graduates are unemployable

• Around 90% do not have the requisite English proficiency

Building skills through a large network of volunteers managed

centrally is an innovative way to address the skill gap

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Snapshot of solution proposed

Volunteer driven skills

training

Implementation model

Advantage over existing system

• Extremely low cost and fungible skills training institutes • Volunteers drawn from various service professions, retired executives and graduate

students • Incorporating requirements of actual employers with government corporate funding

• Volunteers to impart skills training on holiday and weekends • Region wise skill mapping of volunteers to skills gap identified facilitated by a central

management team backed by technological and organizational enablers • Curriculum design, placement support, credit support integral part of the model

• Utilizes the skills freely available in society as opposed to institutional setups like Industrial training Institutes which have outdated curriculum and no linkages with industry and are facing staff shortages

• Large impact (5 mn educated) with very low cost (INR 5 cr per year)

We will build a network of volunteers drawn among

professionals, retired executives and graduate students

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Network of volunteers

Professionals Retired / Defence services Graduate students

Rationale for choosing the

group

• Have specific skills needed in the job market

• Can impart relevant training through work experience

• Free during weekends

• Long and distinguished work experience

• Opportunity to work in voluntary engagements

• Ample spare time

• Easy to tap into by contacting major colleges

• Opportunity to build their resumes and additional training skills

Number • More than 50 million IT and other

services professionals • More than 20 million retired

executives • Around 1 million

graduates

Potential skills imparted

• English proficiency • IT and computer training • Paramedical skills • Retail and hospitality training • Manufacturing skills training • Cooking, culinary skills • Small entrepreneurial ventures

• Industrial operations, fabrication, apparels

• English proficiency • Computer training

• English proficiency • Computer and IT skills

training • Web and mobile

programming

Volunteers will be recruited through online and offline

channels after assessing the area wise skills gap

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Building the volunteer army

Recruitment Management & Mapping Implementation

• Direct recruitment from central/ state government offices

• Direct recruitment by reaching out to NGOs/ Voluntary organizations

• Reaching out to colleges and alumni associations

• Online registration • Mobile based registration

Recruitment of volunteers

0.5 Million+ volunteers across the country to be recruited

• We will understand the requirement at block level for both urban and rural areas

• Survey of industries/ services per district and per block and potential requirement of skills identified

• Direct interaction with service providers/ manufacturers and potential trainees in the area

• Complete district wise and block wise skills and volunteer requirement identified

Need of skills assessment

• Large scale media and offline campaign to support the volunteer recruitment drive

• Both traditional and social media will be utilized to spread the message

• Posters/ Banners to be put up in high footfall urban areas like shopping complexes, Railway stations

Awareness Building

The volunteer network will be managed by a central

management team supported by state of the art infrastructure

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Managing the volunteer army


Central management

system

District offices

NGOs

Online

Recruitment of volunteers

Central system to map volunteers with districts and areas backed by IT

infrastructure

School

Govt building

Education camps

Volunteer homes

Training at district level

• Teaching preferences and location of volunteers to be taken at the time of registration

• Volunteers to be assigned to their home zones based on the needs of skills training in the district

• Arrangement of training venue viz school, government buildings etc to be mapped by the central management system staffed by few government employees with online database

Salient features

Key elements of the implementation plan are designed to

make it scalable and sustainable

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Implementing the plan


• Medium of instruction: English • Training Period: 3 months to 1 year

only on weekends based on the training module

• Venue : Local government schools or offices

• Computerized vocational training through internet and Video conference

• Online content: Video recordings of courses to be uploaded on internet

Training delivery model Curriculum Corporate support, Scalability and

Sustainability

• Curriculum design: Inputs to be taken from main clients of the program viz corporates and SMEs

• Generic modules like numeracy, literacy, communication skills, basic computer skills

• Formal education curriculum to be incorporated to enable students to acquire diplomas, certificates

• Corporate support for the program will be forthcoming with quality of graduates being produced • Eg. Reliance trained 20000

workers out of 70000 needed to build Jamnagar refinery who could have been directly recruited

• Recruitment of volunteering teachers from among the newly passed out graduates will help the model be self driven

We will have a organization team at central and regional level

consisting of around 80 FTEs

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Chief Controller

Outreach/ Media team

Co-ordination Team

Finance Team Curriculum

team

Organizational setup for the initiative

Reports to Director of Vocational training Manages and responsible for the initiative

Corporate support, Media strategy . FTE: 3

Recruitment Team

IT Team

Mapping of trainees &

volunteers. FTE: 3

Recruitment of volunteers through all channels. FTE: 6

Funds management.

FTE: 2

Curriculum design and co-ordination

FTE: 12

Front end and backend support

FTE: 4

Central Management Team

City Controller City Controller Regional Controller Regional Controller

One Regional controller for each of 100 regional and district centres identified for imparting of vocational training. He will be supported by a venue volunteer, co-ordination volunteer, Trainee groups and local NGOs. FTE: 50

Regional organization

The vocational training model will require around INR 5 cr of

funding from government and corporate bodies annually

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Organization cost

Regional: (50 FTEs @ 5 lakh pa)

Chief Controller (1FTE x 8 lakh pa)

Central Teams: (30 FTEs x 4.6 lakh avg pa)

Logistics cost Transportation cost

Establishment cost

Technology cost

IT Hardware cost

IT Software cost

Communication expense

INR 3 cr per annum

INR 50 lakh per annum

INR 1 cr per annum

The volunteer driven training is envisaged as a 50:50 funding partnership between the Government and private bodies who are the main beneficiaries. We propose to raise additional 20% from philanthropists and through nominal training cost charged from individuals

The program will be able to impact 5 million people every year

through a network of 0.5 million volunteers

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Volunteer Network

• 0.5 Mn volunteers to be recruited through the outreach drive • 0.3 Mn Professionals • 0.1 Mn Retired Executives • 0.1 Mn Students

Trainees

• 5 Mn to be trained yearly across 100 districts / cities

• Programs will be for a month, quarter, half-year and annual

Skills imparted

• Computer literacy • English proficiency • Basic manufacturing skills training:

machine tools, CNCs, Apparel manufacturing and fabrication

• Web and mobile programming • Retail and Hospitality • Basic accounting skills

Placement Support

• Placement support to graduating students by inviting firms who can utilize their skillsets

• Industry internships and traineeships for students

Integration with mainstream

• Diplomas/ Certificates to be awarded

• Formal education modules to help gain admission into colleges or diploma courses

Impact and Reach Additional help

The volunteer driven model of vocational training faces key

concept and implementation risks

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Challenges and Risks

Concept Risks • Government or corporates do not see the viability of funding

this model • Unemployed youth do not see the value of vocational

education and prefer formal programs • Volunteer enrollment minimal and key profession groups

show no interest

Implementation challenges • Difficulty in integrating with government infrastructure and

institutions • Placement of students will be a big challenge • Curriculum design and fit to industry needs a massive effort

• Funding from other sources or self funded model via training fees

• Tighter integration with formal education • Advertising/ Awareness Campaign

Mitigation factors

• Tie-ups with other vendors for providing venues and offline registration/ interaction channels

• Tie-ups with placement agencies • Tie-ups with industries for internships/ articleships • Bringing in industry leaders/ NGOs for curriculum

and training inputs

Appendix

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References

• Unsettled Settlers: Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta • Wilfred Malenbaum, Urban Unemployment in India Published by: Pacific Affairs, University of

British Columbia • 17 Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Micro and small enterprises • Towards a Knowledge Society, National Knowledge Commission India, 2008 • Report of the Special group on targeting 10 million opportunities per year, Planning Commission

India 2002 • Report of the Task Force on employment opportunities, Planning Commission India • 2001 • Skill Development in India, Vocational Education and Training System , Human • Development Unit, World Bank 2006 • Entrepreneurship in India, National Knowledge Commission 2008