National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET) to become the independent regulator on skilling bodies

New Delhi : The government has set in motion the process of setting up an independent regulator for a strong oversight on skilling bodies. A search and selection committee has been set up under the cabinet secretary to select the chairman and up to 10 members for the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET).

A senior government official told ET that the committee is expected to advertise soon for the top posts of the council, which is being set up in place of the National Skills Development Agency (NSDA).

The process has been fast-tracked following the constitution of the PM-led Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development, which includes home minister, finance minister, agriculture minister and minister for rural development.

“We have already moved the application to close down the NSDA. The NCVET will be formed once the closure of NSDA is complete,” said the official, who did not wish to be identified. The Union cabinet had in October last year approved the merger of the National Council for Vocational Training and NSDA into the NCVET.

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The proposed council would be headed by a chairperson, to be ranked equivalent to the secretary to the government, and two executive and two non executive members to be appointed by the committee. Besides, there will be one nominated member, along with regular officers and consultants.

The NCVET is expected to regulate the functioning of entities engaged in vocational education and training, both long-term and short-term, and establish minimum standards for the functioning of such entities.

The government is of the view that this institutional reform will improve quality as well as enhance market relevance of skill development programmes.

Greater credibility of vocational education and training, it believes, will boost private investment and employer participation. This will help achieve the twin objectives of enhancing aspirational value of vocational education and of increasing skilled manpower, furthering the Prime Minister’s agenda of making India the skill capital of the world.

In the past, most of the country’s skill training needs were met through courses offered by the Industrial Training Institutes and under the Modular Employable Scheme, regulated by NCVT.

However, in the absence of regulatory oversight, numerous stakeholders have been offering training programmes of varying standards with multiplicity in assessment and certification systems which are not comparable.

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