Skill Hub

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Background

Knowledge and skills are the driving forces for social development and economic growth for any country. As there is demand-supply mismatch, the economy needs more ‘skilled’ workforce than in the availability of it. In the school and higher education sphere, knowledge and skills are required for diverse forms of employment in all the industry sectors and other services. By realizing the importance and the necessity for developing skills among students, National Education Policy 2020 emphasised on mainstreaming vocational education and to enable removal of academic silos, a Credit based framework to ensure vertical and horizontal pathways for students and creating work-ready human capital.

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in consultation with Ministry of Education (MoE) has planned to implement the ‘Skill Hub Initiative’ under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0 (PMKVY 3.0). Scheme aims to facilitate and make education more relevant and create industry fit skilled workforce.

What is Skill Hub?

Skill Hubs are nodal skill centres identified to provide skill development and vocational training opportunities to target population segments from class 6-8th (introduction to world-of-work through orientation, industry visits, bag-less days), 9th to 12th (aimed at exposing students to skill development avenues), school dropouts and out-of-education (aimed for academic credit, mainstreaming back to education and or apprenticeship and employment linkages).

Over a period of time these Skill Hubs will associate with adjoining education and skilling institutions (spokes) over a district, or a cluster of adjacent districts, to provide access to skill development training at hub location or at spoke location.

Such adjoining institutions in the vicinity of the Skill Hub may leverage the infrastructure and resources available at the associated Hub for their In-school, drop-outs and out-of-education candidates in the 15-29 age cohort.

In the initial phase, 5,000 such skill hubs will be identified in the country from across the education and skill ecosystems.

Skill Hubs will be co-opted from the vocational system and education system with participation from MSDE (ITI, PMKK, PMKVY Center, Fee based Center), MoE (Department of School Education & Literacy-DoSEL and Department of Higher Education-DoHE), Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

Any entity from the below mentioned category will be selected as a Skill Hub depending on the available capacity and/ or previous experience of imparting vocational courses:

Schools (Government, and Private)
Higher Education Institutions (Engineering, Technical and General Institutions including institutions offering Language courses)
Polytechnics
Government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
Other Govt Skilling Institutions like RSETI, NIELIT, etc
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs)
Corporate Skill Institutions/ Industry Bodies.
Institutions under Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) Scheme
Institutes under Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME)

The ‘Skill Hubs Initiative’ under PMKVY 3.0 aims at creating shared infrastructure, aligning with the needs of the local economy, and addressing the needs of all target segments for vocational training. It is also expected that existing resources in education and skilling system can be put to optimum usage by utilization for skilling beyond normal working hours and during weekends. The scheme is aimed at the following:

Provision of permanent vocational infrastructure and resources for skilling
To ensure contiguous availability of skilling centre's for ease of candidates
Align the vocational offerings at all levels with overall economic and local economy needs

Introduce vocational learning at an early stage with multiple well-defined pathways for candidates to continue with their chosen vocations
Provide vocational offerings for target segments including in-school, drop-outs and out-of-education candidates