What should be the strategy of Skill India?
India's strategy should be value-based skilling and value-based selling. India can and should integrate handicrafts which is a high skill and high value to the international market. China is not interested in this business model and the west cannot afford this business model. India with its value addition and mass customization can sell at a higher price thanChina.
China has the strength of volume and is considered the factory of the world whereas the west has the strength of RD, design and is considered the innovator of the world but India has one strength that is unique and we can be the workshop to the world.
What do you think about ZED?
Zero Effect is Health & safety of workers and environment. Optimize resources like time, space, labour, energy, raw material. A waste of a resource is a national waste. ZED is to be read and practised in the same sequence. Without Zero Effect attempting Zero Defect is not sustainable.
Zero Defect is achieving the best quality, in a given resource. For the best quality, you need the best machine-tools, the best raw material, process knowledge and an attitude.
ZED is the mantra leading to efficiency, effectiveness and excellence leading to scalability and sustainability.
Why and how can the Industry participate and contribute to the Skill India initiative?
Labour in India is cheap but not skilled labour. The industry pays higher when they poach but there is no value addition. The high cost of skilled labour means a higher price on the product or service. Countries like China take this opportunity to sell cheaper than us.
The Government is right as they want to cover maximum numbers whereas the industry wants quality. If we want to achieve both then the industry must come forward, participate, contribute to the future of the industry and country.
The industry can optimize by adopting ITIs, IITs, NITs, NIDs, VTPs etc with CSR, Machine Tools, Consumables, Process Training, Promoting RPL and apprenticeship. For soft skills, we can have a batch size of 30 but for high quality in hard skills, we need smaller batch sizes. Smaller batch sizes might not be profit-making for the VTPs but will ensure a better quality of freshers getting inducted.
What is Caple's contribution to the Skill India initiative and Make in India initiative?
Caple has been proactive as a partner for IndiaSkills competition, Worldskills India Competition in collaboration with FFSC.in Our business model is Sales through Education. We hold our core purpose and core values above business.