TN plans private placement cells in govt job exchanges

Chennai:

In a bid to bridge the skill gap, Tamil Nadu government is planning to modernize employment exchanges across the state besides having private placement cells in government job exchanges.
 Addressing a seminar on “Employment Exchanges to Employability Centers: IT enabled enhancement of the employment Eco- system’ organized by Confederation of Indian Industry, principal secretary department of labour and employment Mohan Pyare said that the state has launched initiative to improve the employment exchanges and the rigid structure will undergo a change.

 He said plans are on to have private placement cell in government employment exchanges to help meet the needs of the industry.

 Stating that 74 lakh youth have registered in the job exchange for jobs, he said the figure does not mean that all these 74 lakh are without jobs.

“Many woud be pursuing their higher education while some would have joined the private sector. We do not have a database to track them. The real number of people looking for jobs will be much less if these figures are taken into account,” he added.

 He said the government has made policy interventions to improve the skill training facilities in the State. They include the incentivisation of skill-based education in ITIs, expanding the scope of modular education scheme, facilitating ITI students to study further and financial support for students joining the private training institutions.

 He said the incentivisation of ITI include raising the monthly stipend for students from Rs 100 to Rs 500 besides giving recognition to NCVT certificates so that it can be easy for ITI students to pursue higher education.

 Chairman of CII National Committee on Skills and executive director and chief financial officer of Tata Consultancy Services S Mahalingam stressed the need for public private partnership model and said about 1,396 ITIs have been identified under the model and CII is partnering with the Union and state governments to upgrade them.

He said CII has undertaken a nation-wide study of 100 ITIs adopted by the member companies to survey their performance under the PPP scheme to formulate implementation strategies that are replicable and scalable and help the industry understand prevalent challenges and to scale them up into centers of excellence.