To achieve sustained high rates of growth during the coming decades, India needs to harness its workforce comprehensively. Elaborate (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
· The extent India benefits from an imminent shake-up of global supply chains and economic order will also be determined by how well it manages its workforce.
· India needs to relook at its manufacturing strategy, get an updated one. The ‘Make in India’ plan seems to have made no noticeable change to the share of manufacturing’s contribution to India’s GDP (15.07% in 2014 to 15.4% in 2020).
· Cluster-based industrialisation, a model well proven by late industrialisers such as China, needs a new vigour. India needs to allocate more funds to cluster development. It needs to facilitate technology, skills, market development and integrate the MSMEs with the formal credit process.
· Readying an employable workforce is a crucial element of this effort. This is best achieved when skilling is decentralised to the states which can then work with district industry centres and with local industry associations.
· This will create demand-led skilling opportunities. While the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has built the current robust skilling eco-system, the cause will now be best served by moving the locus of control to the local administration.
· Labour receiving states could work with labour supplying states for an arrangement where both parties jointly fund the skilling programs. The receiving states could determine the training modules, with a part done in the home state and the rest on the job. This will create a win-win situation and will allow industrial centres to get a well-trained workforce.
· The skilling centres should be located in these small towns. Such centres will facilitate industry engagement with skilling activities, which will lead to demand-led skilling programs.
· Such clusters will allow greater participation of women in the workforce. Minimising migration will lower the cost of living for the workforce, besides becoming a lower input cost for industrial units setting up in manpower supplying states.
· After the successful start of the Indo-Japan Technical Intern Training Program, it is a model worth emulating. In other countries, too, there exist opportunities for Indian youth in multiple trades.
· Besides the current health crisis creating a great demand for healthcare professionals, in many other trades too, India has the advantage of skilling its youth for the global market.
Ananta Kumar Muduli 5 years
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Good attempt. Try to underline key points. Keep Writing.
Sanjeev Kumar Singh 5 years
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Good attempt. Avoid writing in margins, focus on alignment of the answer. Keep Writing.
Surya 5 years
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Avoid mentioning points. Try to include about the role of NSDC, make in India programme, participation of women, manufacturing clusters, they are specific points. Keep Writing.
Sonali 5 years
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Try to mention about the role of NSDC, participation of women, GDP data, manufacturing clusters and underline the key points. Keep Writing.
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