15th July - World Youth Skill Day

15th July each year is observed as the World Youth Skills Day, designated by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2014.

15th July - World Youth Skill Day

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• The story: 15th July each year is observed as the World Youth Skills Day, designated by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2014.
• Points to learn: The goal is to help equip young people around the world with essential skills for employment, work, and entrepreneurship.

1. To achieve the Incheon Declaration - Education 2030, "which devotes considerable attention to technical and vocational skills development, specifically regarding access to affordable quality technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions."
2. This vision is fully captured by Sustainable Development Goal-4, which aims to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.
3. To eliminate gender disparity.

• 2021 theme: It was - ‘Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic’.
• Youth and schools in pandmeic: According to UNESCO, schools were shut down for over 30 weeks in 50% of the countries between March 2020 and May 2021. The format of distance learning was the most common way of imparting skills. Youth employment fell 8.7% in 2020, compared with 3.7% for adults.
• India: The PM announced the 75 newly sanctioned Jan Shikshan Sansthans ((JJSs) and also launched a portal made specifically for JSS. The JSSs aim to provide vocational training to non-literates, neo-literates as well as school dropouts in rural areas, by identifying skills that might be relevant to the market of that region. The curriculum was launched of 57 new courses aligned with industry demand.
• Programmes in India: Over the decades, governments have tried many things.

1. Industrial Training Centres (ITIs): Conceptualized in the year 1950, aims to expand and modernize the existing Long-Term Training ecosystem in India.
2. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY): Launched in 2015, it aims to provide free skill training avenues to youths of India.
3. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0: It is launched 2021 in a bid to empower India’s youth with employable skills by making over 300 skill courses available to them.
4. Skill Management and Accreditation of Training Centres (SMART): It provides a single window IT application that focuses on the accreditation, grading, Affiliation and Continuous monitoring of the Training Centres (TC) in the skill ecosystem.
5. Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood (SANKALP): Its focus is on district-level skilling ecosystem through convergence and coordination. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme which is collaborated with the World Bank.
6. Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana (Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan): Launched in the year 2016, it aims at creating an enabling ecosystem for Entrepreneurship development through Entrepreneurship education and training; Advocacy and easy access to entrepreneurship support network and Promoting social enterprises for inclusive growth.

 

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