Skilling India

Compare the target of skilling 90 lakh persons in FY14—and 5 crore in the 12th Plan—that finance minister P Chidambaram spoke of in his Budget speech, with the 4 lakh or so that the National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) hopes to achieve in FY13, and it’s obvious there is a yawning gap. This, despite the fact that NSDC has itself ramped up quite rapidly—it has, it says, met its yearly targets—from around 20,000 persons receiving skilling from its training partners in the first year of its operations to 1,80,000 persons in the second year and a likely 4,00,000 this year.

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