Reasons for low apprenticeships:
- Complex labour and regulatory requirements for firms who hire apprentices
- In India, academic education (theoretical) is preferred over vocational training (practical)
- Significant mismatch between what the world of work needs and what youth knows
- Apprentices are seen as the source of cheap labour and enjoy inadequate protections.
- Lack of information and matching of skillset for the employee as well as employer
- Government sector lacks behind g., of 339 Central PSUs, only 150 engage apprentices.
Government efforts:
- National Policy of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015 (strongly focuses on apprenticeship as a means to provide gainful employment)
- Apprentice Protsahan Yojna (Government reimburses the cost of basic training of apprentices)
- National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) (1-year apprenticeship programme, under the Ministry of Education)
- National Employability through Apprenticeship Program (a PPP programme to hire 2 lakh apprentices every year for the next 10 years, under the Ministry of Skill Development)
- It also releases Apprenticeship Outlook Report
- National Apprenticeship Mela (support hiring of more than one lakh apprentices)
- SHREYAS (scheme for higher education youth in apprenticeship and skill)
- YuWaah Youth Skilling Initiative
- Apprentices Act, 1961(regulates training of apprentices in the industry)
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