Today, we are seeing an event where private enterprises have come to know that the profit and objective are changing the mission. With the increase of corporate participation in social influence, the primary purpose of a business is no longer to earn only profit, but also to run social changes.
This is because all the areas of the society are affected by public interest on a large scale-all stakeholders of an enterprise. Private enterprises are now attached to non -profit institutions to give massive impact. These partnerships have come out due to equality between enterprises.
In India, we have seen the impact given through the same partnership. This effect has been given through intervention focused on reducing the deprived youth in the country. In Budget 2025, the government underlined its ambition to achieve 100% skilled workforce by 2047. It is still miles to go to get it. The future workforce in India is not sufficiently skilled to meet the demands of the industry, and was kept bare in the data presented in the UNICEF report in 2019. The report found that 53% of the students would be out of the Senior Secondary School in India. 2030 without receiving the 21st century skills. This figure was worrying as it questioned the adequacy of our existing education system, and said that there was a skill crisis in the country.
This is not new information. The skilling crisis is widely accepted by the ecosystem. In fact, the government started the Skill India Mission in 2015 to deal with this crisis. While it is believed that skilling intervention is provided to help the target audiences, these interventions are also required to support the development of the Indian economy. This is because many industries require special skills that are oriented to their needs. New developing industries such as semiconductor manufacturing are running again under a skill lack.
Even other mature industries are still facing a similar situation. The challenge for them is that they are unable to recruit individuals who require minimal training, and therefore, it connects their total costs for employee acquisition. All the institutions involved to understand this are immediately needed why we are in this prediction, when youth are searching for quality employment opportunities and industries seeking to hire these skilled persons.
The obstruction is that skilling initiatives are not easily accessible for many people outside limited urban areas. Apart from this, underprivileged and rural youth also find it expensive to start training programs. To resolve accessibility related challenges, the 2022 report by WeF, UNICEF and youth recommended the use of digital interventions to reduce inequalities in education related to education in India and increase their results.
It is widely accepted by the government and the private sector. On this effort, the government launched Skill India Digital Hub with partnership with large private institutions to provide skill-oriented training through digital platforms. Broadly, the platform provides free courses through the mobile-first approach. It solves both geographical access and strength.
However, the challenge of how to measure the efficacy of these training programs remains. The impact of training programs in the past has been questioned, and this is partly true because about 50 percent of our country’s graduates are a skill-length. One of the many reasons for this is that pre-technology, learning ability and later employment were a challenge for students. This is why there has been to integrate technology with skilling initiatives to learn the attention of the previous decade and to improve employment results.
Recently, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship participated with meta to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for various initiatives. This assistant will be integrated to offer 24/7 support to find the course information, course material, access course video and so on. Using technology, the partnership between the government and the meta is trying to create a continuous learning experience, without limiting hours without lectures.
Similarly, partnership between private sector and non-profit organizations is still capable. Large enterprises such as Wipro, Amazon, P&G and Education Initiative are partnered with non-profit organizations to infect technology in education and skilling process. The use of technology is not only limited to course distribution, but now being used to help trainees in search of jobs. AI is now being provided to students to practice for mock interviews for their convenience. The perspective on skilling is changing from a point solution that lies in constant learning.
Technology is a major motivational power, as it promotes learning from an availability scene as students are able to practice material, practice and interaction beyond the facials allocated with trainers. It is being enabled through partnership between private and non -profit organizations. While private institutions desire to make changes in society, they partner with non-profit organizations that have significant expertise and local-level access to successfully implement programs.
It is becoming more obvious that technology in skilling and education process can promote infusion social value. This is because the efficacy of skilling initiative is improving day by day, and it is already as a result of quality employment. Partnership with industry for government and non-profit organizations is as a result of quality results.
Participating with the industry, the government has already enabled quality training for millions in India. In addition, non -profit organizations are partnered with the industry to provide skill intervention in rural parts. These partnerships have made a significant progress towards high quality skill training through increasing the overall experience by using technology.
This article is written by Vikram Kumar, National Head. Partnership and Communication, NIIT Foundation.
