Sub-group of CMs’ meet in city on Monday

SHILLONG: The regional consultation meeting of the sub-group of chief ministers on skill development will be held at the State Convention Centre here on Monday.
The sub group of chief ministers on skill development was constituted by the governing council of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog in February 2015 to address issues pertaining to human resources, especially youth and to work on scientific methods on moving towards creating a pool of skilled manpower.
The composition of the sub-group of chief ministers comprises of Chief Minister, Punjab as Convener and chief ministers of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry, Tripura and Tamil Nadu as members and CEO, NITI Aayog as coordinator.
The terms of reference of the sub-group is to suggest measures to strengthen the State Skill Development Missions to enhance capacity and improve standards of skilling at the State level, to examine private sector participation in skill development and to suggest ways for improved partnership of private sector in curriculum development, delivery mechanism, pedagogy, certification, trainer attachment, apprenticeship training and financing,  to propose measures to expand outreach of skilling programmes, particularly in demographically advantageous States, to recommend measures for dealing with shortage of trainers/instructors/assessors, to suggest ways for mobilizing panchayats, municipalities and civil society organizations as also the Railways and Armed Forces to participate in these efforts, to propose ways of career guidance and post training, placement tracking, to suggest State level innovative measures for up-scaling of pilots, sharing best practices, dissemination and replication by the other States/UTs.