ABSTRACT
The most useful involvement of the private sector in each state would be in getting the curriculum and teaching methods of the various vocational training programmes completely revamped and in tune with the needs of modern industry. The improved skill levels among the local youth will provide the private sector industry with better human resources for their own growth and diversification. Community-based organisations may be in the best position to impart soft skills to the prospective emigrants, both informally and formally. To break the seeming administrative gridlock on the new Emigration Management Bill that they are proposing, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) might, in the interim, get more official support to implement the existing provisions of the Emigration Act, 1983. The MOIA was set up nearly nine years ago and given the mandate and the responsibility to handle both the process of emigration and the resultant product of the Indian diaspora.
