Essay Writing for SSC Descriptive exam: Skill India

India is one of the few countries in the world where the working-age populations will be far in excess of those dependent on them. This is termed as a demographic dividend, which will continue till 2040. However, employability of Indian workers is extremely low. To tackle this problem and harness the demographic dividend of the country skill India campaign was launched by honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on July 15, 2015. It includes various initiatives of the government like “National Skill Development Mission”, “National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015”, “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana”, and “Skill & loan scheme”.

The campaign aims to converge and monitor all skill development schemes across the country. It targets to train 400 million people in India in different skills by the year 2022. Main focus is on vocational training. The campaign covers both urban and rural areas. For rural areas, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana has been launched. Many Skill training centres are being established across the country and participation of private players is also being promoted. Private players can help the campaign succeed in many ways like they can identify skill gaps, provide skill training validate or certify skill training courses, invest in skilling etc. They can also forecast job demand in various industries. Low level of skill development in the country is because of many factors, such as the inadequate promotion of vocational training at the school level, inadequate training centre, lack of proper courses etc.

Hence, the success of the campaign depends upon the availability of high-quality trainers, adequate infrastructure, effective state policies and their efficient implementation. It is time we changed our education system and include and give importance to apprenticeship, vocational training in our academic curriculum.

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