By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Patna: A Scheme of Skill Training Centers in Madarasas of the Ministry of Minority Affairs was launched in Patna on Monday on Pilot Project basis. The Scheme involves linking of Traditional Educational Institutions like Madarasas/ Maktabs/ Monasteries and others, with skill training for the Minority Communities.
Dr Najma Heptulla, the Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Radha Mohan Singh, Minister of Agriculture jointly inaugurated the Skill Training Centers in Madarasa Idara-e-Shariah, Sultanganj, and via remote video link in Madarasa Anjuman Islamia, & Madarasa Islamia Anjuman Rafaqul Muslimin, Motihari, on this occasion.
A budget provision of Rs. 3.60 Crore has been made by Maulana Azad National Academy (MANAS) for this Pilot Project for setting up skill training centers in these 3 Madarsas and conducting skill development/up-gradation training for minority communities, by MANAS through its Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs).
MANAS will act as a facilitator, bringing on-Board Traditional Educational Institutions of Minorities like Madarsas/ Maktabs/ Monasteries and others who have vacant space/buildings available to collaborate with its PIAs, who are high quality training providers, capable of setting up training infrastructure within the available space in these institutions. These training centers will be established /developed as per the norms of Sector Skill Councils (SSCs)/National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) to maintain the standard of the training programme.
It should be mentioned here that the UPA Government had launched a similar pilot project and called it Parvaaz, but that yielded limited result.
Launch of the Skill Training Centers through traditional educational institution is an important milestone towards achieving the objective of skilling minorities community with speed, scale and standards across the country. This scheme would bring together key stakeholders accelerating the process of their gainful integration with the workforce of the entire country, by providing them sustainable livelihoods with primarily focus on self-employment.
MANAS have evolved comprehensive real-time monitoring and evaluation framework to ensure quality, credibility & scalabilities of the training programme. By leveraging technology the entire activity chain has been broken into segment/stages inter-linked to each other from planning, execution, evaluation and post placement tracking and each segment/stages is fully captured by an Application in online software.
A call center “Karobari Salahiyat” has been established by the MANAS to assist and support for newly trained entrepreneurs under E&SDP of MANAS. It will also provide online platform to the trainees trained under E&SDP, to promote their product, prepare the catalogue of products with picture, price, description and size etc. and display it on website for e-marketing.
Objective of launching of the scheme is to highlight the significance of skilling, vocational education and entrepreneurship amongst the minority community of the country and make them feel that by skilling, re-skilling, and up-skilling at their door-steps, so that they shall also become an integral part of the Skilling India Mission.
Salient features of Skill Training Centers in Madarasas (Pilot Project)
· Unique and innovative project at All India Level.
· To address all skill development/upgradation needs of minority communities through existing network of their Traditional Educational Institutions, like Madarasas/ Monasteries & others.
· Door step access to skills training for women/girls of minority communities
· Community based mobilization, monitoring & quality audit.
· Promotion and support to Entrepreneurship/ Self-Employment by linking skills training to concessional credit.
· Standardization of Skills Training aligned to Training Framework of Ministry of Skill Development s & Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India.
· Technology driven online implementation and monitoring system ensuring transparency and quality.
· Promoting “Skill India” Mission of the Prime Minister, that according to the MoMA will help in “inclusion of minorities in development process -leading to Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas.”