GUIDELINES FOR SKILL HUB INITIATIVE
GUIDELINES FOR SKILL HUB INITIATIVE
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 3.0)
Introduction to Integrated Skilling
Integration and mainstreaming of vocational education with general education has been identified as the key reform in the education-skill system of the country for overall gains at the student, community, and economy levels. The ‘National Education Policy’ (NEP) 2020 envisages quality holistic education–including vocational education so that students can design their own paths of study and life plans. It emphasizes on flexibility in choice of subjects and strongly recommends no hard separations between the vocational and academic streams, etc. in order to eliminate harmful hierarchies and silos between different areas of learning
Skill Hubs
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), Class 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, 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
Skill Hubs will be co-opted from the vocational system and education system with participation from MSDE, 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) basis agreed selection criteria including but not limited to the following institutions:
a. Schools (Government, Government-Aided and Private)
b. Higher Education Institutions (Engineering, Technical and General Institutions including institutions offering Language courses)
c. Polytechnics
d. Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
e. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs)
f. Private Training Providers (PMKVY centres, Fee based centres)
g. Institutions under Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) Scheme
h. Other Skilling Institutions like RSETI, NIELIT, etc.
i. Skilling institutions under MSME
j. Corporate Skill Institutions
Objectives
The ‘Skill Hubs Initiative’ under PMKVY 3.0 aims at creating shared infrastructure, aligned with the needs of the local economy which addresses the vocational training needs of all target segments. 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. In its full roll-out, the scheme is aimed at the following:
a. Provision of permanent vocational infrastructure and resources for skilling
b. To ensure contiguous availability of skill centres for ease of candidates
c. Introduce vocational learning at an early stage with multiple well-defined pathways for candidates to continue with their chosen vocations
d. Provide vocational offerings for target segments including in-school, drop-outs and out-of-education candidates
e. Align the vocational offerings at all levels with overall economic and local economy needs.
Target Segments
For the overall integration of skilling with education, vocational education shall be introduced from Class 6 onwards through introduction to the ‘World of Work’. Students through industry visits, and bag-less days may be given orientation of vocational education. Industry visits may also cover visits to local artisans, craftsmen, local manufacturing units, etc. The foundational concepts of courses mapped for Class 9 onwards may be used for Class 6-8 for better synergy. Such vocational needs shall be addressed at Schools as per the NCERT guidelines.
The Skill Hubs initiative in its final roll-out would offer NSQF aligned vocational courses for the following target segments:
a. In-school students (Class 9-12th cohort): Shall be offered a vocational offering as course work having access to dedicated skill labs in identified Skill Hubs.
b. School Dropouts (Class 6th to 12th cohort): To achieve Vocational skill Certification and academic credit through credit assignment and mainstreaming back to School wherever feasible. Candidates shall also be supported with career counselling before and after training. For children who have dropped out of class 6/7/8, option for continuing vocational education along with mainstreaming will be done.
c. Out-of-education candidates: To achieve vocational skill certificate and academic credit through Skilling/ Re-skilling/ Up-skilling courses.
Skill Hub Pilot
As a step towards implementing integrated skilling through Skill Hubs, a pilot is being launched from January 1, 2022 targeted at out-of-education candidates. The guidelines for the same are appended below.
Objectives of the Pilot
The pilot scheme is aimed at the following:
a. Provision of permanent vocational infrastructure and resources for skilling
b. Driving convergence and integrated skilling across the education and skill ecosystems
c. Step towards re-positioning the vocational education ecosystem from supply driven to demand driven
d. Provision of 6-7 Skill Hubs per district in the pilot phase through 5,000 Skill Hubs
e. Rationalizing the cost of short-term vocational training with de-novo costing
Training Targets
1. Target shall be assigned up to the maximum capacity of the identified Skill Hubs based on selection criteria/ metrics linked to infrastructure, training capacity, past skilling experience if any, geographical operation, etc.
2. Trainee life cycle data shall be put on Skill India Portal through a simple automated process.
3. The running capacity for single batch for the training centre shall be minimum of 15 candidates to maximum of 40 candidates.