ABSTRACT
The Government announced a National Policy on Skill Development, laying down the framework within which it wanted skills-related training to be conducted. The Policy clarified the roles that different stakeholder's government, industry, trade unions, and civil society would need to play for the creation of a skills ecosystem in India. Most of the formal skills-related training in the government apparatus happens through the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and the Industrial Training Centers (ITCs), which come under the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Ministry of Human Resource Development provides support to polytechnics for engineering disciplines. The deficiencies in the skills training framework prompted the Prime Ministers Council on Skill Development to come up with an innovative PPP in the form of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in 200809 to address the skills gap in India. The money for meeting its funding requirements though is made available to the NSDC through a trust called the National Skill Development Fund (NSDF).
