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MoU signed to ensure short term skills training in agreed job roles to a minimum of one lakh people, in both the public and private sector
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has signed an MoU with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), to address the need for skilled human resources in the health sector.
Besides achieving the national goals of skilling youth so as to increase their employability, this MoU shall also seeks to upgrade the quality and reach of human and infrastructural resources that is at the core of a quality healthcare system.
Reportedly, some of the more significant outcomes of the MoU would be as follows:
- Significantly increase the present capacities in areas of health sector to a minimum of lakh trainees
- Make significant savings of public resources by way of leveraging the existing infrastructure of government and private sector healthcare institutions to provide training against various short term job roles
- Explore pooling of financial resources of the two departments and allow for international partnerships to provide greater financial muscle to the programme
- Create a framework of certification by Health Sector Skill Council of select job roles and for absorption of the trainees in the health sector
- Create a framework for recognition of prior learning
- Allow for seamless vertical and horizontal mobility of trainees at various levels of skill development
EH News Bureau
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