Youth unemployability is a bigger crisis than unemployment

-        53% of employed youth suffer some degree of skill deprivation while only 8% of youth are unemployed

-        57% of India's youth suffer some degree of un-employability

The 82.5 million unemployable youth fall in three skill repair buckets:

Type	Duration of the Training	Unemployable Youth
Last mile repair	0.5 yrs	5.3 million
Interventional repair	0.5-1 yr	21.9 million
Structural repair	1-2 yrs	55.4 million

Repairing this skill deficit needs Rs 490,000 crore over two years. Current budgets cover 25% of this but only allocating more money won't solve the problem.

The Poor HRD Regime

-        Demand/ Supply mismatch; 90% of employment opportunities require vocational skills but 90% of our college/ school output has bookish knowledge

-        High dropout rates (57% by Grade 8) are incentivized by the low returns of education; 75% of school finishers make less than Rs 50,000 per year

-        Poor quality of skills/ education show up in low incomes rather than unemployment; 45% of graduates makes less than Rs 75,000 per year

The Urgency

-        Unviable Agriculture; 96% of farm households have less than 2 hectares. 70% of our population and 56% of our workforce produce 18% of GDP.

-        Demographics; 300 million youth will enter the labor force by 2025. 25% of the world's workers in the next four years will be Indian.

-        Our 50% self-employment does not reflect entrepreneurship but our failure to create non-farm jobs and skills.

-        The skill deficit hurts more than the infrastructure deficit because it sabotages equality of opportunity and amplifies inequality while poor infrastructure maintains inequality (it hits rich and poor equally).

The increasing returns to skills and skill deficit are reflected in the 10% increase in inequality (Gini coefficient) since 1994.

The Three problems

Matching	Connecting Supply to Demand
Interventional repair	Repairing Supply to Demand
Pipeline	Preparing Supply to Demand

 

The Solution

-       Innovation at the intersection of employment/ employability, assessment/ training and matching/ mismatch.

-        As the Indian economy expands; there is an acute shortage of skilled people. Teamlease and IIJT are now looking beyond the initial phase of lamentation of the problem of "skills crisis" to proposing specific, scalable and effective solutions to the problem.

-        By working closely with the State & Central Governments and Ministries, we aim to reach out to job seekers across the country and provide six basic services.

 

 

Some Projects

HRDC (Human Resource Development centre)

IIJT-TeamLease has partnered with Karnataka Vocational TSDC and DET, Government of Karnataka to establish, Karnataka State's first Human Resource Development centre at Mangalore under the public private partnership model. The HRD centres are aimed to be upgraded Employment Exchanges that now have on offer a systematic approach to providing jobs to the job seekers and or work around employability for skill gaps, if any.

The services offered are Registration, Assessment, Career Counselling, Training and Placements. Since its inception (Oct'09), there have been over 7500 candidates catered to for Assessments, Counselling and has been able to place 1200+ candidates in over 10 months. Apart from the trainings offered internally, External Training partners are also invited to offer / extend employability training to the job seekers through HRDC and be instrumental in providing ready work-force to the service industry. All services at the HRDCs are borne by KVTSDC.

 

KEC (Karnataka Employment Centre)

Karnataka Employment Centre is another flagship project in the public private partnership arena along with KVTSDC. The first of its kind public-private employment exchange has been set-up at Bangalore that delivers the full range of services covering Registration, Assessment, Counseling, Training, Certification and Placement to ensure successful access to the job market for the youth of Karnataka. These services are subsidized by KVTSDC and TeamLease / IIJT.

["Shri B. N. Bachegowda, Honorable Labor Minister, Government of Karnataka said, "The Government of Karnataka is committed to ensuring access to livelihood opportunities for the youth of this state. We recognize that the lack of necessary job skills is the core issue affecting employability of our youth and the KVTSDC was created to address this issue. Given the scale of this issue and opportunities in the market, cooperation with and involvement of the private sector is a key requirement. With its proven experience and expertise, we hope the partnership with TeamLease will help successfully improve the employability and employment potential of the youth of Karnataka."]

 

Vanbandhu Koushalya Kendra

IIJT-TeamLease has been mandated by D-SAG under the aegis of the Government of Gujarat to train and place 60,000 tribal youths in 5 years. To achieve the same IIJT-TeamLease is setting-up 20 Training and Placement centres called Vanbandhu Koushalya Kendras across Gujarat to reach out to the tribal youths and extend training and placement services to the tribal youth of Gujarat. Note: The pictures below can be taken from IIJT website in bigger size and higher resolution.

 

Other State Governments

IIJT-TeamLease has adopted Government ITI's across different States in the country under the PPP model to upgrade the Infrastructure / course content / Training delivery and bring about Jobs to the campus. Having strong experience as a people supply chain company and with PAN India operations, TeamLease will extend its business expertise, processes, industry linkage and job openings with the ITI's and IIJT will add its experience in content and training to bring about the required change.

 

PPP Overview

 

State	Project Name	Locations
Karnataka	Human Resource Development Centres - Employment Exchange up-gradation	Mangalore
		Bijapur
		Chamrajnagar
		Mandya
		Udupi
		Bellary
	Karnatak Employment Exchange	Bangalore
Gujarat	Vanbandhu Kaushalaya Kendra – Tribal Employment Exchange	Ahmedabad
		Mandvi
		Rajpipla
		Ucchal
		Vansda
		Nanaponda
		Vyara
	Skills Up-gradation Centres – GIDC	Kerala
		Kathwada
		Kalol
	TeamLease University	-
Haryana	Skills Centre	Sonepat
Andhra Pradesh	EGMM	SRNagar
		Uppal
		Tirupati
		Vizag
		Yalamanchili
		Cheedikada
		Vijayawada
		Machilipatnam
		Jaggayyapeta
		Kakinada
		Vijaynagaram
		Nizamabad
		Warangal
		Hanumakonda
		Eluru
		Karimnagar
		Siddipeta
		Vidyuth Nagar
		Shirdinagar
		Adimurthy Nagar
		Mahaboobnagar
		Guntur
		Srikakulam
		Khammam
		Ongole
West Bengal	DET	-
	Municipalities	-