Issues of Discussion

VET in the Organized Sector andFinancing of VET for Organized and

Unorganized Sector

Organized Sector VET – ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION

• What shd be the framework for effective PPP?

• IT Is have little autonomy. How can autonomy with accountability in ITI functioning be achieved?

• World over ITI-type institutions permit vertical mobility for students to professional/tech educ – how do we achieve it?

• Every ITI graduate receives a pass. How to improve certification?

• By international standards, in-house training is limited; how to increase this investment?

• Public sector role for trng of unorganized workers is paramount: but what is the private or PSE enterprise role?

Financing of VET for Organized and Unorganized Sector

• Shd Central govt impose a levy on organized sector enterprises above a certain threshold size, earmarking revenues for a Nat Fund for Skill Development?

• Training as a profitable enterprise in itself – what is appropriate model for trng for profit, while ensuring quality – avoiding one-room ITCs by fly-by-night operators?

• Brazil and S Africa have for long had cess/levy on enterprises: 2.5% of payroll in BR, 1.5% SA – shd it run by pvt sector or on PPP basis?

• States with 25% of popn have 51% of it is/ITCs.. Even 100 ITIs to be upgraded by CG have been distributed in 22 Sts in proportion of number of exising ITIs. How to remove such inequity?