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ABSTRACT
India is one of the fastest growing major economies and has a burgeoning young workforce. The average age in India will be 29 years by 2020. Given the limitations of absorbing growing labor force– especially the unskilled and semi-skilled– in service sector, focus has to be on spurring manufacturing growth to take advantage of this large pool of manpower. The ‘Make in India’ has a grand vision of creating 100 million jobs by 2021. This ambitious program is designed to turn the subcontinent into a‘global manufacturing hub’ and increase jobs by providing afresh impetus to the economy. Running high on this momentum, the government has initiated several policies such as ‘Skill India’ and ‘Digital India’ to complement ‘Make in India’. Attempting to tap this aggressive policy push, stakeholders are focusing on developing right skills to address the growing skill gap in various manufacturing sectors in the context of changing industrial landscape defined by new-age technologies. This chapter will present India’s perspective on how country is working towards developing a cohesive environment for ‘new-age’ manufacturing and ‘future ready’ manpower.
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Dilip Chenoy
Dilip Chenoy is currently Secretary General at FICCI. His last full-time assignment was with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) as Managing Director & CEO. He is a member of the Board of Governors, IILM, New Delhi, of the Board of studies, All India Management Association (AIMA). He also served as the Chairman of Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology (SLIET) a fully government funded integrated skill development and degree-awarding institution. He was awarded the Indian Achievers Award in 2018; The Game Changer Award in 2015 and the Rashtriya Media Ratan Award in 2013. Prior to NSDC, Mr Chenoy hold senior positions with Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Shobha Mishra Ghosh
Shobha Mishra Ghosh, ASG, FICCI heads the social sectors (Education, Skill Development, Health) including Health Insurance and Medical Technology. She has more than 30 years of experience of being associated with organizations like The Energy & Resource Institute (TERI) Schumacher Centre Delhi (SCD) - Indian partner of IDG (India Development Group) in London, U.K, amongst others. She is on Boards of NABET & NABH, under Quality Counci of India (QCI), PRIA and Delhi Public School, Bopal. She has been recognized for her contribution to Education Sector by FHFI Inc, USA and Dr KCG Verghese Excellence Awards. By qualification she is a trained Architect from Sir J J College of Architecture, Mumbai and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning from Institute of Housing and Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is also trained in Higher Education Leadership and Management from United States Department of State and Illinois University of Urbana Champagne, USA.
Shiv Kumar Shukla
Shiv Kumar Shukla, Senior Assistant Director, FICCI is a skill-full professional with multifaceted competencies and vast cross functional experience in managing various projects related to Education and Skill Development sectors. In his current assignment as Senior Assistant Director with FICCI, Shiv has extensively worked on various high impact research and policy advocacy related projects like- Future of Jobs, Employability for the Future, Employer led models of job creation, Education 4.0 and its preparedness etc. Prior to joining FICCI, he was associated with Planning Commission of India, The Economist Intelligence Unit and Royal Education Council Project, Bhutan. He holds an advance degree in Developmental Economics from Delhi University.