Skill Development Program in India: Challenges and Suggestions

According to Planning Commission report,22 million stalled workers are required for industry, but only 4.3 million workforce are to ready get trained. So only 10% workers are available against the actual requirement of industry.To overcome this, Indian government has launched various skill development scehems, but faced various obstacles by skill development agencies. The mission of skill development has started in India since 2009 under UPA government. An entity was set up by the name of NSDC under ministry of finance. It was based on the model of public private partner Ship (PPP).Under this model, 51 percent holding of private sector and 49 percent of the center government. It started with a initial amount of Rs 10 crore to stimulate and support private sector action in skill development. Initially Nsdcincludes22sectorskillcouncilsand87trammgpartnerwithover2500trammg centers across India. The overall objective was to skill 500 million people by 2022.From 2009 to till, So many challenges has faced by system in implementation of skill development program. So, in order to achieve "Skill India" mission successfully, various actions should be taken for proper implementation to refine the execution of skill development program.