LOK SABHA ___ SYNOPSIS OF DEBATES (Proceedings other than Questions & Answers) ______ Thursday, April 28, 2016 / Vaisakha 8, 1938 (Saka) ______ *MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 (i) SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY laid a statement regarding need to set up a high-power radio transmitter at Dhanbad and also expand the existing capacity of radio and Doordarshan stations in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. (ii) SHRI RAHUL KASWAN laid a statement regarding need to provide allocated share of water to Sidhmukh Nohar Irrigation Project, Rajasthan. (iii) DR. SWAMI SAKSHIJI MAHARAJ laid a statement regarding need to clean up river Lone in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh and shut down slaughter houses and make provision for effluent treatment plant in factories in the city. (iv) SHRI LALLU SINGH laid a statement regarding need to check alleged flouting of rules in extending health care facilities to women * Laid on the Table as directed by the Chair. under National Health Mission in Faizabad parliamentary constituency, Uttar Pradesh. (v) DR. KIRIT SOMAIYA laid a statement regarding need to take action against builders for publishing misleading advertisements and cheating common people. (vi) COL. SONARAM CHOUDHARY laid a statement regarding need to take necessary measures to grant permanent citizenship to Hindus migrated from Pakistan and presently living in Rajasthan on long term visas. (vii) SHRI HARISHCHANDRA ALIAS HARISH DWIVEDI laid a statement regarding need to check alleged irregularities in construction of irrigation canals in districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. (viii) SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA laid a statement regarding need to provide adequate relief and assistance to farmers who lost their crops due to hailstorms, heavy and unseasonal rains and drought in different parts of the country. (ix) DR. RAMESH POKHRIYAL NISHANK laid a statement regarding need to launch Skill Development programmes and create employment opportunities based on agriculture and horticulture in hill States. (x) YOGI ADITYANATH laid a statement regarding need to include Bhojpuri language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. (xi) SHRI ANURAG SINGH THAKUR laid a statement regarding the financial condition of Himachal Pradesh. (xii) SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA laid a statement regarding need to modernise Central Training College, CRPF at Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh and also set up a permanent battalion of CRPF at Neemuch. (xiii) SHRI BAIJAYANT JAY PANDA laid a statement regarding need to assess the financial impact caused due to withdrawal of support to some Centrally Sponsored Schemes. (xiv) SHRI VINAYAK BHAURAO RAUT laid a statement regarding need to take suitable step for resettlement of Jhuggi-jhopri clusters presently occupying land owned by the Mumbai Airport Authority. (xv) SHRI MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO laid a statement regarding need to set up a new Railway Zone in Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. (xvi) SHRI B. VINOD KUMAR laid a statement regarding implementation of recommendations of Commissions set up to examine the reservation policies for Scheduled Castes in Telangana. BUDGET (GENERAL) - 2016-2017 DEMANDS FOR GRANTS - 2016-2017 The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship SHRI RAJEEV SATAV initiating said: The Government has spoken very high about the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship both in the country as well as abroad but the allocation made for it is absolutely inadequate. This time a sum of Rs.1800 crore is being allocated. With this amount, it is quite impossible to provide jobs to one crore youths. Even the website of the Ministry does not have any concrete information to offer about it. The Prime Minister Skill Development Scheme has been talked much. The Prime Minister has mentioned about developing the labour force into skilled manpower. If the Government has right intentions to make skill India then the allocation has to be augmented. There is not even a single word difference between the objectives of the Prime Minister Skill Development Scheme and the National Skill Certification or the Monitory Reward Scheme launched during UPA regime in 2013. Even under this Scheme the reward amount has been reduced from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 8000. This Government during its first year 2014-15 has been able to create only 5.21 lakh jobs though the Government is claiming to give jobs to crores of people. During the year 2013-14 when UPA was in power, as many as 76,37,000 people were trained. This Government in the year 2014-15 has trained about 76,12,000 people that means the number of people trained during UPA Government and during this NDA Government is almost same. This NDA Government has set a target to train 40 crore people in next 6 years but how this Government is going to achieve this target. This Government opened 1131 ITIs in the year 2015 and about 40 per cent ITIs have been opened in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan alone. This Government has to pay little more attention towards other states also. The Minister of Finance has mentioned in the budget that the Government will open 1500 multi-skill training institutes and a sum of Rs.1700 crores has been set aside. But how and when the Government is going to setup these institutes when it has got no trainers. The Government disbursed a loan of Rs.50000 to about 25 lakh people but how many jobs are going to be created actually. Allocation for skill development should be permitted under the MPLAD Scheme. A Standing Committee should also be constituted for skill development so that all members could discuss this issue. The budget of this Department has to be increased. An allocation of Rs.8000 crore is being made under the Prime Minister Skill Development Scheme but this should be increased at least to Rs.15000 crore. SHRI OM BIRLA: The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is an important ministry. After 67 years of Independence, the country is still struggling against the problem of unemployment. If India is to achieve economic prosperity then the unemployed youths has to be given jobs, their economic condition has to be strengthened and job opportunities has to be created in villages. Unless we train the youths both in villages and cities, we cannot meet the international standards. The increasing gap between the ballooning population and employment opportunities has to be abridged. About 80 per cent youths of Japan, 75 per cent of Germany, 68 per cent of Britain are skilled and in our country merely 4.69 per cent youths are skilled. There is an effort to augment the entrepreneurship of youths in the country under the Start-Up Scheme. Funds will be provided through MUDRA Bank so that employment opportunities could be created. Our hon. Prime Minister has integrated about 70 schemes and 24 ministries under Skill Development Scheme. Our Government intends to open ITIs and Skill Development Centres in each block of the country in next five years as there are no ITIs in 2500 blocks. Even today about 60 per cent youths in our country are not trained workers. In future, India will be the youngest country of the world. Now we shall not produce labourers in India but we shall produce trained youths. We will usher in a new India through skill development. DR. MRIGANKA MAHATO: In a country like India, where there is a large number of unemployed youth, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship can do miracles if it works properly. The youths will be greatly benefited. They will be given training with which they will get jobs. Local representatives like MPs, MLAs and district authorities should be consulted for setting up different centres. Foreign tourism come to Darjeeling in West Bengal and in Rajasthan. Local people where foreign tourists come should be given training in foreign languages then it will be very effective. The people will get jobs also through this programme. It should be a need based programme. Due care should be given to the quality of training. After completing of training programme. At the time of giving certificates, if possible, campus interviews should be held so that a large number of youths are able to get jobs immediately after completing their training. In West Bengal, an initiative has been taken to set up an ITI in every block. Focus of the Government should be on rural India. SHRI NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN: This Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is very important because in the first meeting of the NITI Aayog held on 8th February, 2015, it was decided to form a Sub- Committee of Chief Ministers. At present there are a huge number of unskilled workers in India who are mainly engaged in the less productive informal sector. According to the National Skill Development corporation (NSDC), there is severe quality gap and lack of availability of trainers in vocational education and training sector. The workforce requirement is projected to increase to 3,20,000 by 2022. Government has to invest in bridging the Skill gap in the vocational education and training sector to improve the employability of people. India is the youngest nation in the world. In fact, during the next 20 years, the labour force in the industrialized world is expected to decline by four per cent while in India it will increase by 32 per cent. What steps the Government is exactly going to take in view of the emerging world situation? Skill should be converged with higher education. Centres of Excellence should be set up in universities. DGET/NCVT offices should be there in every State. NSQF must be owned by universities and universities may be allowed after proper approval from MSDE to go pan India. Third party evaluation of NSDC partners must be institutionalized. In difficult geographical areas and the Left Wing Extremist Areas, the number of ITI and ITDA blocks must get special treatment.