Posting a blogpost after a long time.
Have been bouncing off challenges of vocational training in this 'land of graduates'.
A recent event at one of our centres has really set me thinking. We were executing a CSR project where students were trained on Data Entry Operator skills; naturally they have not paid for their training. A group of 35 students were offered a job at a domestic BPO in one of their upcoming centres in Gurgaon. However, because of some administrative issues, they have not been able to set up office yet at Gurgaon. In return, the company offered to take this people at their other location in south Delhi. Students refused, saying that is too far, though they did training at a centre in south Delhi.
Amazingly sponsor of the program refuses to pay us the training fees given that these students have not joined their job and the skills training company (us) is at fault.
This is a reflection of the deep-rooted malaise among the youth, while getting used to public largesse through social welfare schemes. The political class, and of course, the bureaucracy is putting their all-out effort to support such irrational behaviour, without addressing the real problem.
It now appears to me that the skills training organisations are to be "blamed" for all associated problems of the skills Eco-system.
I am a born optimist and see this as a passing phase. Hope I am proven right.
Have been bouncing off challenges of vocational training in this 'land of graduates'.
A recent event at one of our centres has really set me thinking. We were executing a CSR project where students were trained on Data Entry Operator skills; naturally they have not paid for their training. A group of 35 students were offered a job at a domestic BPO in one of their upcoming centres in Gurgaon. However, because of some administrative issues, they have not been able to set up office yet at Gurgaon. In return, the company offered to take this people at their other location in south Delhi. Students refused, saying that is too far, though they did training at a centre in south Delhi.
Amazingly sponsor of the program refuses to pay us the training fees given that these students have not joined their job and the skills training company (us) is at fault.
This is a reflection of the deep-rooted malaise among the youth, while getting used to public largesse through social welfare schemes. The political class, and of course, the bureaucracy is putting their all-out effort to support such irrational behaviour, without addressing the real problem.
It now appears to me that the skills training organisations are to be "blamed" for all associated problems of the skills Eco-system.
I am a born optimist and see this as a passing phase. Hope I am proven right.
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