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NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP WITH JSS
Directorate of Adult EducationNATIONAL LITERACY MISSION AUTHORITY
Department of School Education & LiteracyMinistry of Human Resource Development
Government of IndiaNew Delhi
Dec 28-29, 2012 at Bhubaneswar
SCHEME OF JAN SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN
• The first Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) (earlier called Shramik Vidyaeeth) was started at Mumbai (Worli) in the year 1967.
• Aims to provide vocational skills to industrial workers in the urban areas.
• Focus of JSS was shifted from industrial workers in the urban areas to the numerous neo-literates and unskilled youth in both urban and rural areas from the year 2000.
TARGET GROUP
• JSS will concentrate those who are in the age group of 15 – 35 years having no or rudimentary level of education (up to 5th Standard)
• Priority Groups are such as women, SCs/STs/OBCs, other economically weaker sections, minorities and rural areas/urban slums.
PROGRAMMES
• JSS organise two types of programmes:• Vocational Courses : Training programmes
involving skills/practical application leading to income generation.
• At present more than 500 varieties of vocational courses are being run by JSSs.
• Activities : Few awareness programmes organised other than Life Enrichment Education components like soft skills, HIV/AIDS, RCH and Adolescent Issue etc.
CURRICULUM
• No JSS is allowed to conduct vocational skills without standardised curriculum.
• 36 vocational courses standardised by DAE.• 23 vocational course curriculum were
standardised by NIFT.• Adopted more than 400 vocational course
curriculum of DGE&T, Ministry of Labour & Employment , NIOS and other courses approved by the competent authorities.
MONITORING
• JSSs progress is being monitored through web portal.
• The portal provides all the details about JSSs, beneficiaries, resource persons, staff with photographs etc.
• Annual Action Plan of JSSs are approved through web portal.
• Half yearly review meetings are being conducted.
EVALUATION
• Performance of JSSs is not only monitored through review meetings and visits by officers but also through external evaluating agencies.
• Impact evaluation conducted once in a three year by reputed agencies like IIMs, MDI, University departments and Social Science Research Institutes.
Memorandum of UnderstandingBetween NLMA and NIOS
• MoU was signed on 21-6-2012 with the following Aims and Objectives:
• Impart vocational skills training that has standardized curriculum for the target groups of JSSs and S.B programme.
• To evolve strategies for the effective implementation of equivalency programme in academic and vocational skills development of the target group of National Literacy Mission Authority.
Memorandum of UnderstandingBetween NLMA and NIOS
• To develop assessment process including certification under vocational and equivalency programme.
• To provide academic support to the beneficiaries of JSSs in terms of vocational training, assessment and certification.
• NLMA and NIOS will identify need based vocational courses as and when required.
Roles and Responsibilities of NLMA
• Identification of adult beneficiaries specially women and disadvantaged groups.
• Impart functional literacy, basic education and life long learning .
• Impart vocational skills that have curriculum, market demand taking into account inputs provided by NIOS.
• Prepare a database of vocational skills and beneficiaries of each JSS
Roles and Responsibilities of NLMA
• Identification of the study centers, getting accreditation from NIOS for course delivery.
• Provide necessary infrastructure to carry out vocational programme.
• Provisions of necessary financial assistance towards admission and assessment fee payable to NIOS.
ROAD AHEAD• Planning Commission’s Working Group on EE&L
for 12th Five Year Plan has inter-alia recommended that
* Skill Development under Adult Education be fully compliant with NVEQF.
* Curriculum developed by Pandit Sunderlal Sharma, Central Institute of Vocational Institute, Bhopal may be adopted or adapted by the programmes run by the adult education.
* Competency based assessment of beneficiaries should be conducted by the recognized assessors appointed by NLMA.
ROLE OF JSS• Identify new partners to create opportunities for
employment / self employment like Coimbatore Model.
• Adopt new courses which have local demand including traditional courses, curriculum should be approved by competent authority.
• Infrastructure, qualified Resource Persons, sufficient TLM to be ensured for NIOS accreditation.
• Prepare Database vocational skills and beneficiaries.• Preparedness for Third Party Assessment.• Feedback mechanism.
THANKS