ajiv Yuva Kiranalu (RYK) scheme as part of the Rajiv Education and Employment Mission (REEM) at the Port Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday to mark the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The objective is to provide 15 lakh jobs in the private sector and one lakh in government departments, apart from providing skill training and placements. The RYK will be launched in all districts across the state with a view to utilising the expanding opportunities offered by the growing economy and to bridge the skill gap. "The labour market demand is shifting towards skilled and highly-skilled categories, whereas most of the youth are unskilled. This calls for a massive initiative for training the youth in the desired skill sets with the active partnership of the private sector," the CM said on Friday. He said the government was committed to providing manifold and enhanced avenues to the youth. The CII estimates a potential of eight million new jobs (4.5 million skilled/highly skilled and 3.5 million unskilled) will be available by 2015 in various sectors.
CONCEPT NOTE ON RAJIV YUVA KIRANALU
1. Background:
It has been estimated that more than one crore youth in the age group of 15 - 35 years will enter the job market every year for the next 15 years in India. A major part of the job seekers are drop outs, matriculates, graduates and post graduates. Their employability is low due to lack of both soft skills (communication English language) and technical skills.
Studies done by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) showed that by 2015, manufacturing and service sector activities like Pharmaceuticals, Bio-technology, Construction, Textiles, Health care, Tourism, Retail management etc., will require 70 to 80 lakh workers in Andhra Pradesh alone, of which about 30 to 35 lakh will be in the unskilled category and the remaining in the skilled category.
A large labour force without skill and industry grappling with dearth of labour is a paradox that we are facing today. Such a mass of unemployed youth with no/poor employable skills will have a long term negative impact on the social stability.
2. About Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu (RYK)
Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu is a programme conceived by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh to build job specific skills among the unemployed and place them in the industry at appropriate levels in a mission mode. The mission proposes to employ 15 lakh youth in jobs in the private industry by 2015.
Key stake-holders identified in the mission are, unemployed youth, government, training and placement institutions and the Industry.
3. State level arrangement:
To operationalise the programme, Government have constituted
High level council ‘Rajiv Education & Employment Council of Andhra Pradesh (REECAP)’ has been set up under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Chief Minister with 9 cabinet ministers, Principal Secretaries of relevant departments and 10 representatives of the industry / academia for creating necessary policy environment and guiding the implementation process.
An exclusive State Level Society ‘Rajiv Education & Employment Mission in Andhra Pradesh (REEMAP) has been registered to coordinate the efforts of employment initiative of different Government departments. REEMAP is fully empowered and funded to address the common needs of all the sub missions and ensure that each sub mission performs to its expected level and the objectives of RYK are achieved in letter and spirit.
REEMAP will function through 5 sub missions;
A. Sub mission for rural employment : Employment Generation and Marketing Mission (EGMM)
B. Sub mission for urban areas: Commissioner, Employment & Training
C. Sub mission for urban slums: Mission for Elimination of poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA)
D. Sub mission for placements in Education Institutions: Commissioner, Technical Education.
E. Sub mission for differently abled: Disabled Welfare Department.
All sub-missions will function under the operational control of REEMAP.
4. Strategy for implementation:
The REEMAP will take up
i. Registration of the unemployed in AP,
ii. Mapping of available vacant jobs in the industry in AP and neighbourinng areas,
iii. Taking up job specific, industry focused skill building programmes with partnership from industry either directly or through training partners
iv. Placement of trained youth in private sector.
District Collectors have been advised to prepare “Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu implementation plan” which identifies jobs available in the private industry and trade, propose custom designed training programmes which will result in jobs for youth in the nearby industry.
District Level RYK Committee:
A District Level Committee to plan, implement and monitor RYK is set up with -
· Dist. Collector – Chairman
· PD, DRDA – Convener
· Dist. Employment Officer - Member
· PD, MEPMA – Member
· Technical education - Member
· Any other member (persons of repute from industry/academia etc) as nominated by the Dist. Collector
The Committee will meet every week to provide overall direction, guidance, review and monitor the progress of RYK program.
5. RYK Portal is being developed by CGG. It will feature -
i. Student registration
ii. Man Power requirement registration by Industry
The registrations will be on -line and can be done from anywhere in the State / Country. All the youth registered are maintained in a common data base and industry which registers man-power requirement will also be maintained in a separate data base. The data will be used by all 5 Sub-Missions involved in implementation. Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu (RYK) facilitation centres are being developed at every district to support this activity.
Rural youth will be covered by EGMM, urban youth in slums who are the children of urban SHGs will be covered by MEPMA, urban youth outside the slums and SHGs and all those who have ITI pass/fail qualification will be covered by Commissioner, Employment & Training. Candidates with polytechnic (pass / fail) will be covered by the Department of Technical Education.
Separate efforts will be taken up to cover the disabled SCs & STs unemployed youth as well.
7. Budget Estimation:
It is estimated that RYK requires Rs.1500 crores (approx). About 1/3rd of funds required will be tapped from existing Government of India programmes namely Spl. SGSY Swarnajayanthi Shahari Rojgar Yojana, Modular Employable Skills, Skill Development Centres etc., for designing and implementing job specific training programmes. Balance 2/3rd of funds will be provided by the State Government.
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