AISECT - NSDC PARTNERSHIP

National Skill Development Corporation(NSDC) is a not for profit initiative established on July 31 2008 under section 25 of The Companies Act of 1956. NSDC was set up by the Ministry of Finance as a Public Private Partnership Model (PPP). NSDC PMKVY is one of the most prominent schemes within this partnership.

The aim of NSDC is to promote development of skills by catalyzing and creating large, quality and for profit institutions. The organization also provides funding for building scalable and profitable training institutions. It also enables support systems that focus on quality assurance, train the trainer and information systems. NSDC is that catalyst that provides funding to companies, organizations and enterprises that provide skill training.

AISECT joined hands with NSDC in 2012, with an objective of skilling 13 million youth by 2020 by providing them with skill training courses. Mapping the manpower requirement in the future with strengths of AISECT , nine sectors were identified under which training will be done which were IT/ITES, Hardware and Networking, Livelihood & Vocational Training, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance, Agriculture, Teacher's Training, Marketing and Retail, Apparel and Fashion Design Tourism & Hospitality and Beauty & Wellness. Once an individual selects a training center and checks whether the skill they are looking for is offered there, they can start training for that particular skill immediately. These skills are offered to the students in the form of vocational training courses.

Once they finish their training, they are applicable to be employed in the field they get trained in.

Objectives of NSDC :

The aim of the NSDC is to create public and private vocational training institutes and support systems for skill development.

• Upgrade skills of Indian youth to match up to international standards. The training is developed keeping this quality and standard in mind.
• Enhance and support the private sector to ensure that there is a significant operational and financial involvement from the private sector.
• Bring financing where market mechanisms are missing or ineffective.
• Focus on initiatives that can have a catalyst effect as opposed to a one-off effect.

NSDC Partnerships:

• Private Sector: This includes creating awareness, capacity, financing loans, assessments leading to certification and participation in special initiatives like Udaan.
• International Engagement: This includes technical assistance, overseas jobs, investments and other areas.
• Central Ministries: This includes participation in flagship programs like Make in India, Swachh Bharat and many more.
• State Governments: Includes development of schemes and programs.
• University/School programs: This includes education becoming vocational through specific training programs. One of the universities that NSDC has partnered with is AISECT.
• Non-profit Organizations: Improving the capacity of marginalized groups, self employment and entrepreneurship programs.
• Innovation: Providing support to early stage entrepreneurs. This also includes programs for people with disabilities.

Objectives of the AISECT-NSDC Partnership:

• To expand the skilling and training facilities of AISECT, first in the rural and backward regions of states such as Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar,Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra and Punjab and then expand across the country.
• To undertake a massive “Training of Trainers” program to improve the quality of skill training and to up skill the technology utilization of trainers in training.
• To utilize the nearly 6,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) set up by AISECT at the Panchayat Level across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh & Punjab for skilling youth.
• To utilize the nearly 6,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) set up by AISECT at the Panchayat Level across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh & Punjab for skilling youth.
• To link skill development programs with university education and to set up Vocational Academies or Skill Resource Centers within the two AISECT Universities.
• To support the skill development training programs by providing placement services both online and offline to the trained manpower.
• To expand and develop the AISECT Content Creation Center as the backbone of the ongoing skill development efforts.

About Sector Skills Council:

Sector skills council is set up as autonomous industry led bodies by NSDC. They create occupational standards and qualification bodies, develop competency framework, conduct train the trainer programs, conduct skill gap studies and assess and certify trainees on the curriculum aligned to National Occupational Standards developed by them.
According to AISECT’s strength and experience, and looking at the priority sectors, in the states we are present, we have been affiliated with fifteen SSCs.
AISECT-NSDC partnership has been the basis of other skill development projects AISECT has been implementing since the commencement of this partnership. It has provided AISECT the platform to expand its reach in terms of geography and varied sectors.

Under NSDC, over 5.2 million youth of India have already been trained.