BHUBANESWAR: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry will put in place a national vocational education qualification framework to allow lateral shifts between mainstream and vocational education. S Ramadorai, adviser to Prime Minister on skills development, will come on a day’s visit to the State on Monday to discuss this and several other issues with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and senior officials. Under the vocationalisation scheme, colleges and universities will be encouraged to offer vocational courses and capitalise on their existing infrastructure. Another theme, which he will focus, is the MGNREGS and how the scale and reach of this initiative can be used for developing skills of people. The strategy of the National Council on Skills Development is to achieve skill development of 50 crore people by 2022. The aim is to make people employable through MGNREGS and wean them away from the scheme. In this way, the people will be empowered to make a sustainable living and not be dependent on any scheme for their financial security. He will take up issues like State specific schemes for skill development, employment generation activities, including the role of private sector, impact of key NGOs, their work and collaboration with government if any, unemployment census, vocationalisation of education and IT literacy in schools and English-speaking skills during his discussion with officials.
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