The Union Cabinet on 10 May 2013, gave its approval for instituting an autonomous body called the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) by also combining the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development (PMNCSD), the National Skill Development Coordination Board (NSDCB) and the Office of the Adviser to the PM on Skill Development. The first proposal considered to set up the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) by the Cabinet is in its meeting held on 31.1.2013 and it was referred to a Group of Ministers (GoM) to review all aspects.
The NSDA, to be located in the Ministry of Finance, will coordinate and harmonise the skill development efforts of the Government and the private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the 12th Plan and beyond; anchor and operationalise the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) and be the nodal agency for Sector Skills Councils and endeavour to bridge the social, regional, gender and economic divides in skilling.
The agency is expected to accord the training goals of some 23 government departments and end infighting between ministries like the human resource development (HRD) and the labour ministry on who controls the skill education agenda in the country.
It will also be empowered to raise extra budgetary resources.
The Central Ministries and NSDC will continue to implement schemes in their remit.
The NSDA is expected to provide the much needed single point focus to ensure that skilling quality and standards meet sector specific requirements benchmarked to international standards. Such an initiative will boost employability of youth in India.
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