Employment Generation and

Skill Development in India

Trends and Challenges

The Great Indian Hope Trick

In the 1800s a story of startling magic trick emerged
from India ,where a street performer plays his flute
over a coiled rope, which a climb dancing like a
cobra to a great height. The boy assistant scrambles
to the top of the rope and disappears ,the magicians
calls for the boy, grabs a knife and scramble up the
rope, vanishes too. Then a limb ,torso and head
fallout of sky. The magician reappears, reassembles
and covers the body part and from the bloody sheet
the boy reappears grinning .One hundred years later
the Great Indian Rope Trick was exposed as hoax
,imagination of western visitors
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The Great Indian Hope trick

In recent years visitors have been returning from
India in a similar state of awe. But India now risks
falling for its own hype.
Indian policy makers can not assume that
demographics will triumph and problems such as
lack of investment in agriculture, manufacturing,
healthcare , education &skills development and
lack mission mode implementation of core
critical projects to generate jobs for 500 million
Indians in the next 15 years are just sideshows
instead of nation building challenges.
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The Great Indian Hope trick

REALITY CHECK-EMPLOYEMENT Nos

Agriculture-----285 million
SME-------------188million
Construction----40 million

No of Jobs added in the last 5 years(NSSO 61 &NSSO 66)

---10 million

No of youth entering job market every year

-----26 million

The Great Indian hope trick

Nation building Challenges

Lack of political will.(Policy paralysis)

Lack of mission mode implementation plans.
Lack of sense of urgency
Multiple bureaucratic procedures, sanctions and
rivalries
Lack of governance.
Lack of systems to prosecute the corrupt

The Great Indian Hope

Democracy ,Entrepreunrship ,managing crisis
Healthy sense of urgency to generate large
investment, jobs and higher productivity in
---Agriculture
-----Manufacturing
----Healthcare
----Education &Skills

Indian Vocational Skill Scenario

Vision India @ 75 (Year 2022) Some Highlights

India achieves 100% functional literacy

India builds 700 million globally employable workforce, comprising 200 million university graduates and 500
million vocationally skilled people
India develops world class infrastructure to become a global hub for knowledge creation, talent development
and entrepreneurial incubation
India sets global standards and becomes a scale provider of value based learner-centric education, skills
development and professional educators through industry partnerships

Requirements..

Community
Placement
Mobilization
Support
Vocational
Community
Placement Training
Mobilization
Support &
Vocational
Training
&
Certification
Certification

Creating a Globally Deployable Skilled Manpower

- Create Skill Development Centres (SDCs) at

the district level
- Mobilize youth, across schemes / programmes
to create an engine to skill rural / semi-urban
youth towards employability
- Utilize vast existing infrastructure and
resources that exist at the grass-root level .
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Indian Vocational Skill Imperatives

Indian Population @ 2022:
1.3 billion people

Employable Population
(age 18-58 years): 780 million
Key Sector employment Facts

Livelihood generated by Agriculture 65%

Small and medium enterprise (related to
manufacturing and service) generates
close to 29%
Critical growth sectors identified BY GoI:

Agriculture
Agriculture and
and food
food processing
processing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Healthcare
Hospitality
Hospitality
Skill Development
Development
Skill

Population with access to education facilities:

200 M
Population with limited access to education
facilities: 500 M
Balance population (to be vocationally skilled):
500 M (considering a drop of 300 M who will
drop out due to various reasons)

Requirements what needs to be done to skill

500 M youth for employability..

Community
Placement Assurance
Mobilization
Industry
Vocational
Certification
Training

Agriculture Outlook, Challenges and

Opportunities
Agri Sector:

Contributes to 24% of GDP

Provides food to 1Billion people

Produces 51 major Crops

Contributes to 1/6th of the export earnings

One of the 12 Bio-diversity centers in the world with over 46,000 species of
species of animals recorded

Largest producer in the world of pulses , tea , and milk

Second Largest producer of fruits, vegetables, wheat , rice, groundnut and

Key Thrust Area for Agri

Diversification of Agriculture
Inter-cropping
Micro Management
Water Management
Organic Farming
Agri-Clinics and Agri-business
Centres

Bio-Technology

Skilling and Upskilling farmers

and agro processors
Solution:
Smart Agriculture Corridor:
Improved agricultural output
Establishing food processing
Skill development of farmers at grass
root level
Model - 4P

STRENGTHS
Rich Bio-diversity
Arable land
Climate
Strong and well dispersed
research and extension
system

plants and 86,000

sugarcane.

WEAKNESS
Fragmentation of land
Low Technology Inputs
Unsustainable Water
Mgmt
Poor Infrastructure
Low value addition

SWOT
OPPORTUNITIES
Bridgeable yield crops
Exports
Agro-based Industry
Horticulture
Untapped potential in the
N.E.

THREATS
Unsustainable Resource Use
Unsustainable Regional
Development
Imports
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Manufacturing Outlook, Challenges and

Opportunities
Manufacturing:

Key Thrust Area for Manufacturing

Solution:
Development of specialized corridors
like DMIC:
Creation of 350 Industrial townships
Development of SME ancillary units
Creation of 100 million jobs in
industrial sectors
Building Capacity of SME

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Healthcare Outlook, Challenges and

Opportunities

Indias Human Development Index ranking at 119 out of 169 countries, which is largely due to poor healthcare indicators, is detrimental
to its predicted rise as the second largest economy of the world.
The skill requirement for the country is quite staggering as India adds another 2 million beds by 2022 as compared to 1.1 million beds
currently
Key Challenges
Production and distribution of human resources - across multiple levels of care
Health curricula- outdated and non existent for some roles
Private sector dominance - provides 93% of the hospitals and 85% of doctors in India.
Geo-disparity
South & West states with 31% population have over 60% nursing & medical colleges , whereas 8 North & East states with
50% population have only 20% nursing & medical colleges
80% doctors, 60% hospitals and 75% dispensaries in urban India

GDP spend on Health to go from 1.3% (current) to 2.5% (12th plan estimate)

Emerging Trends in Healthcare Sector

Increme

2008
2012
2018
2022ntal
Doctors
725
1,208
1,947
2,705
1,980
Nurses
1,600
2,416
5,192
10,822
9,222
Technician
s,
27
232
530
812
785
Paramedic
s & Others
Dentists
80
121
389
676
596
Pharmacis

Human Resource and Skill Requirements for the Healthcare

by ICRA Management
Consulting
ts Services Industry,
681a report724
779
811
130
Services Limited (IMaCS) for NSDC
This skill gap is without accounting for the entire eco-system
All figures
'000s
sizing ofin
manpower
requirement Bedside assistants, Assisted
living (home care), Facilities management roles, etc.

Increasing presence of the private sector

Nursing education, PPP for core and support
functions
Private players in the health insurance
business and the growth of health insurance
Day Care concept
Assisted Living / Old Age / Critical Illness
Home concept
Medical Tourism and certification /
accreditation of medical institutions

Twelfth five year plan (2012-17) will see

doubling of GDP spend on Healthcare

Continuing shortage of nursing, technical

and support staf

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Meeting the Manpower

Requirements
Skilling youth across domains

1. SDC: Skill
Development
Centre a smaller
format training
facility, with 2 or
3 classrooms;
present at remote
block / district
level in a state
2. CoE: Centre of
Excellence a
large format
training
institution or
college, with high
capital
investment; in
large cities
3. Capacity building
of existing role
holders:
- Private sector
existing role
holders
- Public sector
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government

Thank You!
Navin Bhatia
Email: navin@navkarskills.com
Mob: +91 9810003021
Navkar Centre for Skills
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