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Cover Story Skilling India, Transforming India
When Prime Minister Modi realised the
importance of skill in his youth
20 years' worth of skill is Rs 20 !
The dreams of the youth are becoming a reality, forests, everyone tried everything, pushed, did
thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's everything, but the car did not move. One of the
visionary thinking since his election in 2014, when mechanics was called up around 8 or 9 p.m. He
he established the Ministry of Skill Development came in and fixed it in 2 minutes by doing little
and Entrepreneurship. An example of how things here and there. I then asked him how much
important skill development is for anyone can be money he needed to be paid. He said twenty
found in Prime Minister Modi's experience at a rupees. Twenty rupees was a lot of money back
virtual function celebrating the completion of five then. "Hey man, 2 minutes of work and you're
years of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. asking for 20 rupees," one of our friends said. His
In his own words, "What is the power of a skill? response continues to inspire me and has left
Everyone will have some sort of experience related an impression on my mind. "Sir, I am not taking
to it." I also recall an old incident. I used to work as 20 rupees for 2 minutes," said the uneducated
a volunteer with some tribal organisations when I mechanic. These 20 rupees are for the skill that
was young. We once had to travel somewhere in has come to me after working for 20 years and the
a jeep with people from an institution. However, experience I have gained. This, I understand, is the
when it was time to leave in the morning, the power of skill. Your talent and influence not only
jeep did not start. While wandering through those motivate but also inspire your work. "
Centers have been established across the country committed to reviving the Skill India Mission in
to facilitate this. The number of ITIs has grown. light of the new educational, health, and industry-
It now has tens of thousands of new seats. As a related institutions that have been established in
result of this, approximately 6 crore people have the country.
had their skills developed, and the campaign is The role of skill has also been important
still going on with new experiments. in Indian tradition because when society and
nation place value on skill, the nation-society up-
SKILL DEVELOPMENT BECOMING NEED OF skills and progresses. As a result, the worship
THE COUNTRY of weapons on Vijayadashami, the harvest on
The challenges posed by this global pandemic Akshaya Tritiya, the worship of agricultural
have increased the value of skills. Now that machines, and the worship of Lord Vishwakarma
India is commemorating the Amrit Mahotsav are all important festivals for people associated
of its independence with the Amrit Yatra, we with every skill-craft. However, during the long
are determined to have a golden India on the period of slavery, the social and educational
occasion of the country's 100th anniversary system gradually weakened the system of skill
of independence. In such a situation, skill development.
development of the next generation of youth is a If education-knowledge assures us about what
national necessity in order to lay the groundwork we need to do, skill teaches us how to do that
for a self-sufficient India. The Government is work in real life. The country's "Skill India Mission"
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