Consultations on skill development varsity in process : Rudy

The Centre is taking efforts to come up with a legislation to set up a Skill Development University and holding consultations with state governments and other stakeholders in this regard, Union Minister of State for Skill Development, Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here today.
"We are trying to put in place a statute, it is in the draft stages and consultations with State governments, stakeholders are on and we would like the university to come up in States which would actually be the delivery point," Rudy told reporters here.
Stating that it would be a "skill development university," he said (formal)education will, however, be incorporated "but focus will be on skills and its development."

"In three months, we will roll out the National Skill Development Policy 2015," he added.
Also, a proposal to launch a national mission for Skill Development, on the lines of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was being deliberated, he added.
Earlier, after inaugurating the Apollo Hospitals' first Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Skilling here, he presented statistics related to global skilled workforce and the need for the country to develop on similar lines.

In China, which has a population of 1.45 billion, 46 per cent of work force there were fully trained. Similarly, Australia has 65 per cent of skilled workforce and United Kingdom and Japan have 68 and 80 per cent of skilled workforce respectively, he said.

"South Korea has 96 per cent work force skilled whereas India stands at a meagre two per cent of skilled workforce and this is the challenge.
"PM is passionate about skills [development] and that is what we are doing," he added.
"As part of efforts to bring synergy in skill development,
the Prime Minister's Secretariat yesterday evening issued orders transferring "the entire vertical of Directorate General of Employment and Training, National Council of Vocational Training (NCVT), ITIs of this country and apprenticeship (training) under DGET to the Ministry of Skill Development," he said.
"Now 12,000 ITIs across the country have been brought under Skill Development Ministry because they are the epicentres of training in this country and possibly I would not like to comment some are very good some are non-functional."

"Any training in this country has to align itself with the National Skills Qualifiaton Framework under Ministry of Skill Development," he added.