Public-Private Online Partnership to Scale up Skill Development in India
The Google+ Hangout will have different stakeholders
including government, World Bank and CEOs of large Indian Corporations
deliberate ways in which Corporate Social Responsibility Funds of Indian
companies can be channeled towards skill development initiatives of the
government.
This online event will be held on 2nd September,
2015 from 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm. Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy will deliver the
keynote address and interact with the CEOs of Indian companies. Chairpersons of
Public Sector Undertakings such as State Bank of India, Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation Ltd (ONGC), and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) will also
participate.
Announcing the initiative Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy said,
India is expected to have half of its population under 28 years by 2030. While
the `ageing economy’ phenomenon will globally create a shortage of skilled
manpower of 57 million by 2020, India will have a surplus of 46 million working
people. He said, helping this young population with the
right skills will provide India a huge demographic dividend.
The Hangout will also launch an IT-based Skills to Jobs Aggregator Platform. The Skills to Jobs platform – created as part of World Bank technical assistance to MSDE – is a technology enabled multi-stakeholder platform that will effectively channel funds (both government and corporate) towards skills projects and also help Indian companies and skilled trainees to connect, which could lead to better job prospects for the trainees. The entire platform will be driven through a combination of Marketplace and cloud, mobile and big data technologies. All data points will be tagged to Google Maps, thereby, providing exact locations ensuring highest levels of data authenticity. Dashboards will be created to provide a one-stop solution for understanding and evaluating the progress, effectiveness and impact of skills projects across the country.
World Bank Country Director in India Onno Ruhl has said that the Google+ Hangout will help us brainstorm on how public and private capital can be effectively channeled towards skill development in order to prepare a better skilled workforce for the job market,”
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