Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri
Mallikarjun Kharge today unveiled and dedicated the Official Web portal
Directorate General of Training & Employment (DGET), M/o Labour
& Employment to the nation for the effective implementation of Skill
Development Scheme (SDIS) to promote training of around 6 lakh people
in the Country annually. The portal is is developed by the Helwatt
Paackard, India.
Unveiling the Web Portal Shri Kharge termed the occasion as a new
beginning and is making one step forward in fulfilling the main aim of
our Government to bring good governance. He said any Govt. scheme is
always supported by funding incurred from public exchequer which needs
to have a proper in-built mechanism to check & monitor the physical
progress and financial expenditures on regular basis. Such a scheme like
Skill Development Initiative encompassing a huge number of people from
all over the country is quite difficult to handle and hence, tracking
must be based on setting up of an efficient “Management Information
System(MIS)”. I am quite confident that this powerful Web-portal would
not only facilitate DGET in all these aspects but also enable to keep a
track over outcome of the Scheme, Shri Kharge added.
The Minister said the National Skill Policy has been articulated at the
behest of Prime Minister’s National Council on Skills Development. He
reiterated the mission statement of the National Policy on Skill
Development that it will empower all individuals through improved
skills, knowledge and nationally-internationally recognized
qualifications to gain access to decent employment and ensure India’s
competitiveness in the global market. The minister said we must remember
that this national Skill Policy is an integral part of comprehensive
economic, labour and social policies so as to establish a framework for
better coordination among various Ministries, States, industry and other
stakeholders.
He expressed the hope that this On-line access to the countrymen from
enrollment & admission to training and Certification will certainly
begin a new chapter with true inclusiveness in the skill building
process of our country.
In his welcome address, Shri Sharda Prasad,Director General, DGET and
Joint Secretary in the M/o Labour & Employment said with this
webportal, timely access to information across stakeholders would be
available, thereby enabling better citizen centric services in a
transparent manner. The SDIS Web Portal will also help in State
Governments in registering candidates, the Vocational Training
Providers (VTPs) and empanelled Assessing Bodies (ABs). It also tracks
the creation of training/assessment batches, publishing test results and
dispersal of online certificates.
The SDIS is a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme and is launched by the
Directorate General of Training & Employment (DGET), M/o Labour
& Employment for the early school leavers and existing workers
especially in the informal sector. It was operationalised on 24th May,
2007 and initially the project target for training and testing of one
million persons over a period of 5 years was fixed. Thereafter the the
target of training of one million person per year has been taken up.
The Modular Employable Skill (MES)- National Council for Vocational
Training (NCVT) certificate issued after the prescribed training is
recognized nationally and internationally for gainful employment.
