Kurukshetra, October 01- To bring sustainability in rural transformation, the efforts of skill development under ‘Skill India’ are necessary but not sufficient. To make them sufficient we need to increase the return on training investment (ROTI) which calls for communication skills with spiritual input and time management. There is an urgent need of training of trainers with chain of reforms ensuring fundamental changes with greater accountability, transparency and morality (ATM) more important than the ATM of any bank, observed Dr. M. M. Goel, Professor of Economics and Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and his scholar Dr Virander Goyal Assistant Professor of Economics at RKSD College Kaithal in the presentation on the topic ‘SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN RURAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ’ .The6thInternational Conference and Field Study of the Rural Research and Planning Group (RRPG- 15) was he3d in the Centre for Regional System Analysis Planning and Development Bogor (INDONESIA) recently ( Sep.28-29,2015).Professor Goel also acted as moderator for one of the session and presented Anu – Gita to the chief guest, keynote speaker and the organizer of the event.
We need to make the labour market system dynamic to get demand and supply of skills on real time basis for meeting total domestic requirement of trained manpower, believes Goels.
We have to develop a labour market information system by modernization of all the employment exchanges in public-private -partnership (PPP) mode and develop a national web portal, told Goels.
Abilities of head and heart, skills and knowledge (ASK) are the engines of economic growth and human resource development (HRD). It is believed that the countries with higher and better levels of ASK respond more effectively and promptly to challenges and opportunities of globalization which should mean internationalization of Indianization for all of us, believed Goels.
The new knowledge economy for achieving professional, managerial, operational, behavioural, inter personal and inter functional skills require flexible education and training system that will provide the foundation for learning to develop required competencies through spirituality- the science of soul which can make us superior to anyone in the World. By providing skilled manpower to the outside world, we can transfer our country from a developing nation to a developed nation very easily and quickly, told Goels.
To make the learning more inclusive, there is a strong case for shadow trainers/teachers outside the classrooms. There is a strong case for introduction of soft skills including communication skills, Computer literacy, English proficiency, Quality management tools, occupational safety & health and entrepreneurial development skills, said the authors.
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