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Targeted Skilling Action Plan for Tamil Nadu

Secondary and Higher Secondary School

Career Counselling and Exposure to World of Work

1. Annual Regional SCORE Camp , a 2-days industries’-led students career counselling and aptitude-based alignments assessment fare for Secondary and Higher Secondary School Students
2. Weekly systematic Career Counselling at Schools either by an appropriately trained Teacher OR through a specialised agency (community organisation or a non-government organisation)
3. Periodic work-exposure visits and vacation (short-duration | 3-5 days) internships to Corporates or Institutions aligning to Students’ aspirations.

English Language Proficiency Development

1. English Language to be conceived/ treated as a ‘skill’ and functional English Language proficiency (reading, speaking and writing) to be developed among School Students, through specially trained English Language Teachers
2. Establish English Language Labs with clearly marked learning schedules for all secondary and higher secondary students.

Vocationalisation of School Education

1. Training on Livelihoods and Life Skills (TOLLS) for All, to be introduced as a multiskilling intervention with Life-skills as a focus, to all students from Class VI to VIII – through Club Initiatives
2. Certificate-level (NSQF 4) Level Dual-Skills to be introduced between Class IX to XII, embedded with Class X and Class XII vacation-time internships. In Schools, where vocational education at Class XI and XII is already being offered – systematic strengthening of the same with alignment to NSQF, with a wider spectrum of choice and vacation internship for the students to be enabled. Vocational training to be offered through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)s empanelled Training Partners and Assessments to be carried out by the respective Sector Skill Councils (SSCs).

Basic Employability And Digital Skills (BEADS)

1. A special intervention combining 21st Century Skills and Digital Skills to be imparted to all students of Class VI onwards. Curriculum to be aligned to various competency-levels of employability and digital skills and structured in a manner to enable progressive empowerment and employability.

Certificate and Diploma in Engineering

Industry-aligned Demand-based Skilling

1. Establishing and empowering of Industry-Management Committees (IMCs) across all ITIs and Polytechnics, with a mandate to actively contribute to identification of industry-aligned courses, strengthening of course curriculum with industry-inputs, facilitating regular classroom lectures by industry-practitioners, and industry-immersion programs for students [internship, apprenticeship, industry visits, etc.] and lecturers/trainers (training of trainers, exposure visits, etc.)
2. Enhanced application-orientation in course offering by
   • enhanced practical session of 60% to 80% depending across the industry-aligned to
   • course structuring with mandatory 1 Year industry immersion for ITI and 1.5 Years immersion for Diploma streams (the overall structuring is 50% in Campus and 50% in Industry Associate)
   • Mandatory Curriculum Revisions once in every 3-Years, and dynamic curriculum realignments based on IMC’s recommendation on an ongoing manner.

English Language Proficiency Development

1. English Language to be conceived/ treated as a ‘skill’ and functional English Language proficiency (reading, speaking and writing) to be developed among the Students through specially trained English Language Teachers
2. Establish English Language Labs with clearly marked learning schedules for all ITI and Polytechnic students.

Basic Employability And Digital Skills (BEADS)

A special intervention combining 21st Century Skills and Digital Skills to be imparted to all students of ITI and Polytechnic. Curriculum to be aligned to various competency-levels of employability and digital skills and structured in a manner to enable progressive empowerment and employability.

Promoting Apprenticeship for Development

Promoting Apprenticeship Training Scheme with additional incentives (i.e. enhanced Stipends) to trainees for apprenticeship engagement with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and rural/ remote-rural enterprises.

Under Graduation & Graduation Degree | Arts & Science Students

Vocationalisation of Higher Education

1. Introduction of ONE industry-aligned Vocational Skill Course at NSQF Level-4, as a mandatory inclusion into all Degree Courses, to be imparted during the final 2 Semesters of the Course
2. Diploma and Advanced Diploma Courses as Optional Choice-based additional credit-aligned course offering to all Students in Degree Program | special focus on data science, ESG, AI & ML, basic coding, etc.

English Language Proficiency Development

1. English Language to be conceived/ treated as a ‘skill’ and functional English Language proficiency (reading, speaking and writing) to be developed among the Students and standard certified English Language Assessments to be implemented
2. Establish English Language Labs with clearly marked learning schedules for all students.

Basic Employability And Digital Skills (BEADS)

A special intervention combining 21st Century Skills and Digital Skills to be imparted to all students of Degree programs. Curriculum to be aligned to various competency-levels of employability and digital skills and structured in a manner to enable progressive empowerment and employability.

Promotion of Traditional Skills

Special incentive-linked apprenticeship-integrated skill courses for Students of General Arts and Science Graduation programs, on futuristic and fusion approaches to traditional industries/ skills i.e. handlooms, agriculture, handicrafts, metalworks, etc.

Graduation in Engineering

Industry-aligned Demand-based Skilling

1. Establishing and empowering of Industry-Management Committees (IMCs) across all ITIs and Polytechnics, with a mandate to actively contribute to identification of industry-aligned courses, strengthening of course curriculum with industry-inputs, facilitating regular classroom lectures by industry-practitioners, and industry-immersion programs for students (internship, apprenticeship, industry visits, etc.) and lecturers/trainers (training of trainers, exposure visits, etc.)
2. Enhanced application-orientation in course offering by
   • enhanced practical session of 60% to 80% depending across the industry-aligned to
   • course structuring with mandatory 1 Year industry immersion for ITI and 1.5 Years immersion for Diploma streams (the overall structuring is 50% in Campus and 50% in Industry Associate)
   • Mandatory Curriculum Revisions once in every 3-Years, and dynamic curriculum realignments based on IMC’s recommendation on an ongoing manner.

English Language Proficiency Development

1. English Language to be conceived/ treated as a ‘skill’ and functional English Language proficiency (reading, speaking and writing) to be developed among the Students through specially trained English Language Teachers
2. Establish English Language Labs with clearly marked learning schedules for all ITI and Polytechnic students.

Basic Employability And Digital Skills (BEADS)

A special intervention combining 21^st Century Skills and Digital Skills to be imparted to all students of ITI and Polytechnic. Curriculum to be aligned to various competency-levels of employability and digital skills and structured in a manner to enable progressive empowerment and employability.

Promoting Apprenticeship for Development

Promoting Apprenticeship Training Scheme with additional incentives (i.e. enhanced Stipends) to trainees for apprenticeship engagement with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and rural/ remote-rural enterprises.

Entrepreneurship Development Cells/ Incubators

Establishing of Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Business Incubators in each of the Engineering Colleges and Technical Universities with due linkages to start-up funds, angel investors and other government funding schemes/ institutions.

Common and Convergence focused Interventions

==== Regional Academy for Trainers’ Excellence (RATE) Establishing of (sector-specific, industry-led) Regional Academies for continuous professional development of Technical Trainers.

District Fab Labs

A common shared-resource engineering and technology facility (OR digital fabrication facility) to be established to support young entrepreneurs and MSME units to rationalise their costs of investments into next-generation technology facilities.