Government to enable job opportunities for Skilled People Overseas

Indian Government is preparing itself to make it easier for carpenters, plumbers and masons among other vocationally skilled persons, to get jobs abroad by designing a policy and preparing a road map that will satisfy the requirement of such professionals abroad as well as the certifications required in different countries to make them eligible to work outside India and open new job opportunities for them.

Taking the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of making India the skilled capital of the world, the skill development and entrepreneurship ministry is in the process of finalising the policy, which will be presented to the Union cabinet for its approval.

The policy and the action plan, will address the information irregularities existing across the globe for different skills and the minimum certification required for each skill in different countries.

“As of now the ministry does not have complete information on how many masons or plumbers are required and in which countries. Hence, the new policy will help us map this requirement in a proper way, based on which the ministry will take a targeted approach towards facilitating the movements of our trained skilled personnel with jobs abroad,” the official said.

In 2017 last year, government announced the launch of 50 India-International Skill Centres in partnership between skill development and entrepreneurship ministry and ministry of external affairs to provide training to youth under the Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana.

This initiative is a part of the larger vision to impart skills to 50 crore youth by 2022 and to make them ready for new job opportunities.

The idea was to increase the employability and acceptability aspect of Indian youth on global platforms while ensuring they get the respect and remuneration that they deserve.

However, the lack of enough information from across the globe on the kind of skills required and the basic minimum certification needed for placements has resulted that not too many Indians are getting jobs aboard yet.

The Prime Minister emphasised at the launch of the Skill India Mission in 2015 on the need to provide the youthful man power with skills and ability to tackle global challenges and open the door for new job opportunities. He also warned that the demographic dividend would otherwise become a challenge in itself.