Govt. Takes Initiatives to Provide Job Opportunities Abroad

More than 500 students are being trained intensively under a government initiative to make them ready for jobs in sectors such as health care, construction, automobile repair and maintenance in Japan.

Apart from Japan, the plan is to target other nations also such as Germany and UAE which comprise of an ageing population. This initiative is headed by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the ageis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). There will be a demand for roughly 3,80,000 care workers by 2025 for Japan’s ageing society.

NSDC is holding discussions with Japan for workers’ recruitment from India after providing them with the necessary training. Officials from East Asian country’s health ministry will also be in India for a workshop soon.

A five-member Japanese delegation visited Japan last month to meet executives of the top health care institutes in Rajasthan, Manipur, Assam and Delhi. So far, India has sent 17 people to Japan out of which 15 were engaged in electrical assembly work and others in the agriculture sector for on-the-job-training for five years. The MoU for the same was signed in October 2017.

Majority of the workers are earning more than 70,000 per month. The UAE is also in talks with India for the setting up of driver training institutes as it wants more Indian drivers in the country. Presently, most of them are from other nations such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The training will take place in India, and it will be designed as per the UAE-approved training programmes so they won’t have to take a driving test after reaching the Arab countries. A draft MoU is likely to be signed by the end of this month, and the UAE requires more than 100,000 drivers (including both light vehicles and commercial) by 2022, as per NSDC.

A Festival of Skills may also be held in Finland. This will help a skilled worker work in the same industry abroad and improve his skills by adapting to their work culture. This will also help in showcasing India’s capabilities in front of the world, and at the same time create awareness about the skilled workers in India, NSDC CEO and MD Manish Kumar said.

In UAE, there is a lot of demand for labourers from India and for this, NSDC is involved with the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council for mapping assessment and certification protocols for mutually recognizing the Indian certification so workers can be trained as per the UAE’s required certification before they start working. NSDC is also working on a model of international employer-led skill development training centres in India and is in talks with manpower companies in the Middle East such as DULSCO among others.

Benchmarking of skill standards will also be done prior to sending workers to UK and Australia. The National University of Singapore will also be helping NSDC train the workforce in emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Data Analytics.

NSDC is also working with the UAE government for designing a programme for skill cooperation on the new technologies. A new global skill gap study by NSDC can show how India can utilize opportunities in New Zealand, Qatar, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, Germany, UK, and the UAE. It is in the nascent stages and the study will be open to the public in the near future.

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The study’s findings show that the Netherlands would need 195,638 personal service workers, 446,566 teaching professionals, 118,714 drivers, and 304,392 health workers by 2022. There will also be a demand for chefs in Sweden, Switzerland, UK, UAE and New Zealand.

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In the next three years, Malaysia would require more than 7,500 networking professionals, Sweden will need more than 100,000 university teachers, Saudi Arabia will require 250,000 construction workers and more than 83,000 motorcycle repairers. Germany will require office secretaries, risk, tax and audit compliance officers, and office secretaries. Kumar stated that he doesn’t want Indian workers to stay abroad forever. The workers should acquire skills there and come back to India to contribute to the Indian economy after a few years.