Please find attached file regarding suggestions for Draft National Policy for skill development and Entrepreneurship

Suggestions on the Draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025

Suggestions on the Draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025
Quality and Inclusivity:
Enhance quality of trainers and assessors: Focus on developing a national pool of highly qualified trainers and assessors, ensuring standardization and expertise across training centers.
Quality assurance framework: Implement a robust quality assurance framework for all skilling programs to maintain high standards and ensure the credibility and acceptability of certifications.
Inclusive growth: Ensure skilling programs are inclusive, multilingual, and accessible to all, with a strong focus on women, tribal communities, differently-abled individuals, and marginalized groups, ensuring equitable access to opportunities.
Decentralization: Promote decentralization of skill development operations, extending reach to Tier-II and Tier-III cities and ensuring equitable distribution of training opportunities across all regions.

Suggestions on the Draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025
Entrepreneurship Promotion:
Localized entrepreneurial education: Encourage entrepreneurship education tailored to local contexts, particularly for youth in Tier-II/III cities and rural areas. This should include simplified regulatory processes, improved access to funding (e.g., linking with the MUDRA scheme), and robust mentorship programs.
Innovation-driven enterprises: Support and nurture innovation-driven and social enterprises by providing necessary handholding and facilitating market linkages.
Integrated approach: Further integrate entrepreneurship education into formal and skill-based education systems to cultivate an entrepreneurial culture from an early age.

Suggestions on the Draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025
Strengthening Apprenticeship and Industry Linkages:
Robust national apprenticeship framework: Create a strong framework that effectively links industries, startups, and MSMEs with apprenticeship programs to bridge the skill-job gap and provide real-world exposure and on-the-job training (OJT).
Increased industry involvement: Foster greater private sector participation in curriculum design, training of trainers, skill assessments, and providing placement opportunities. The policy should encourage industry to leverage schemes like the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS).
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): Promote and strengthen PPP models for skill development initiatives, ensuring shared responsibility and leveraging private sector expertise and resources.

Suggestions on the Draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025
1. Future-Ready Skills and Curriculum:
Prioritize emerging technologies: Emphasize skills in areas like Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, green technologies, digital marketing, blockchain, 5G technology, and cybersecurity. These should be integrated into the curriculum from early stages, potentially even from school levels (e.g., AI literacy from Class 6).

Dynamic curriculum development: Establish a mechanism for continuous review and update of curricula to ensure it remains industry-aligned and responsive to rapid technological advancements and market demands.
Micro-credentials and modular courses: Promote the development and recognition of short-term, micro-credential, and National Occupational Standards (NOS)-based courses to provide targeted, industry-relevant skills and enable learners to upskill and reskill efficiently.

Bharat is a country with high values, tradition, culture and knowledge,after adopting the western a certificate is deciding the skill not the knowledge. Every individual will have a skill on their own interest,area of living,challenges faced,ancestors skills and society observed. Here we need to provide an opportunity to every individual not has a sector or trade or something else defined. Everything is a skill in 1 or the another way, that need to be identified and provide an opportunity for upskilling. Skill must be used to live the life not for earning money. Earning is important but it is not everything. Mobilizing an individual from a small village to provide a job in a corporate is not upskilling or development, it is completely vanishing our culture and tradition. An individual must be grown happily, live life in the same place where he is. Skill development must not generate labor for foreign corporates, skill must develop an individual in his place, which makes country growth

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the draft National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2025 (NPSDE 2025). Please find attached our feedback. We are available to present our inputs to the committee at any time. Best Regards from Avinyum Foundation.

Bharat is a country with high values, tradition, culture and knowledge,after adopting the western a certificate is deciding the skill not the knowledge. Every individual will have a skill on their own interest,area of living,challenges faced,ancestors skills and society observed. Here we need to provide an opportunity to every individual not has a sector or trade or something else defined. Everything is a skill in 1 or the another way, that need to be identified and provide an opportunity for upskilling. Skill must be used to live the life not for earning money. Earning is important but it is not everything. Mobilizing an individual from a small village to provide a job in a corporate is not upskilling or development, it is completely vanishing our culture and tradition. An individual must be grown happily, live life in the same place where he is. Skill development must not generate labor for foreign corporates, skill must develop an individual in his place, which makes country growth.

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