Free Medical Screening Camp at MRI

On march 20th, Free Medical checkup is conducted at MRI VTI, thanks to Dr. Devi Devaraj.

Today from 12.30 to 3.30 pm she single handed checked 41 students mainly girls and women who attended the classes during that period. She was assisted by Dr Ansuya and Rajaram.

The camp was very successful as it gave these students awareness of problems they have if any and some of them were not aware.

Medicines or tonics were prescribed where ever necessary.Some of them have been advised for follow up treatment.

The medical screening camp was appreciated by one and all with a request to have the programme quaterly so that awareness of their health condition becomes known to initiate follow-up.

- R K Makhija

             

Results of Vocation Training for 2007

Courses	# Graduates
Computers	644
Fashion Designing	380
Electrical	168
Beautician	294
English Speaking	290
Total	1776

Modular Employable Skills – an Initative of Government of India

Modular Employable Skills Training

Hon’ble Minister of Finance in his budget speech 2005-06 announced:“ To meet the demand for specific skills of a high order, a Public Private Partnership between Government and Industry is proposed to promote skills development programme under the name ‘Skill Development Initiative Scheme”.

Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGE&T), Ministry of Labour & Employment (MoLE), is the nodal body for formulating policies, laying down norms, standards, conducting trade test and certification of vocational training.

Highlights

Vocational Training is provided to youth with the objective to prepare semi-skilled workers for the industry. 1. Educational qualification varies from class VIII pass to Class XII pass.2. Duration of training varies from six months. 3. Trainees after completion appear in the All India Trade Test to obtain National Trade Certificate awarded by National Council of Vocational Training (NCVT), 4. Certificate is recognized within the country and abroad.5. NCVT formulates policies and procedures, prescribing standards, norms for schemes with representatives from the Central and State governments, employers organizations, workers organizations and training experts.

Features of the Scheme

Objectives are:To provide vocational training to school leavers, existing workers, ITI graduates, to improve their employability by optimally utilizing the infrastructure available in Govt., private institutions and the Industry. Existing skills of the persons be tested and certified under this scheme.

Key Features of the SchemeDemand driven short term training courses based on Modular Employable Skills (MES) sufficient for gainful employment.Central government will facilitate and promote training. Private sector will train the persons with flexible timings (part time, weekends, full time to suit needs. Testing of skills of trainees by independent assessing bodies, which would not be involved in training delivery, to ensure that it is done impartially.Certificates will be nationally and internationally recognized.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) active participation of Private Sector at every stage of design and implementation of the scheme.

Project Output One million persons would be trained or their existing skills tested and certified, over a period of five years. Modules for employable skills as per Industry and market demands would be identified and course curriculum developed.

Age of participants Minimum age is 14 years but there is no upper age limit.

Curriculum Development Process

• Development of training modules corresponding to skills set identified
• Development of detailed curriculum
• Approval by the NCVT

Instructional Media Packages To maintain uniform quality of training all over the country, instructional media packages (IMPs) will be developed by the National Instructional Media Institute (NIMI),

Training under the Scheme

Vocational Training Providers (VTPs)VTPs will provide counselling & vocational guidance, training facilities as per norms, impart good quality training, post training support to trainees in getting employment, maintain data base on trainees trained and the outcome of the training. They will track the trainees till they get gainfully employed. VTP will also be required to have close networking with the industry for immediate placement of the trainees. VTPs have necessary powers to collect the training fee from trainees.

 

Testing and Certification

Assessing BodiesDGE&T will appoint assessing bodies to assess the competencies of the trained persons.

Testing Centres (TCs)Assessment of the persons will be done in designated Testing Centres four times a year by assessing bodies.

Assessment/Testing FeeAssessment fee for a non-engineering course will be Rs 800/-. The details of such courses along with assessment fee are given in Annex-II.

Reimbursement of Assessment FeeInitially Rs.500-800/person will be fixed as assessment fee depending upon the skill area to be assessed. The assessment fee will be reimbursed to all the successful persons who have received training from approved VTPs.

CertificateSuccessful persons will be awarded certificates issued by National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT).

Internal efficiency : The internal efficiency deals with performance and outputs of training institutions with regard to the numbers of students enrolled, retained and successfully graduated. Considering nature of scheme, Pass rate (Percent of candidates who passed the trade test out of those appeared for the trade test) will be used as a measure of internal efficiency.

External efficiency : The external efficiency deals with outcomes that reflect the impact of training on employability of graduates and therefore can only partially be controlled by training institutes. Table below provides a structure of the external efficiency indicators.

Indicators Formula

• Labour market success of graduates Percentage of graduates who are in wage employment, or self -employed or employer, or joined family business
• Satisfaction of graduates with the training received Percentage of graduates who reported high satisfaction or satisfaction with the quality of training
• Satisfaction of employers with the skills of graduates Percentage of surveyed employers reported high satisfaction or satisfaction with the skills of graduates that they employ

Vocational Training Providers

i. Counselling & vocational guidanceii. Providing good quality trainingiii. Providing training in a flexible mode to suit trainees needsiv. Post training support to traineesv. Maintaining information on trainees trained and outcome of training