Skill, Labour, Talent for MSMEs: MSME Ministry’s 28 Tool Rooms and Technology Development Centres in the nation engaged in supplying tools, educated workforce, and consultancy services in tooling and connected locations have observed a jump of 51 per cent in the quantity of people today educated or skilled in the monetary year 2019-20 from the preceding FY. From 1,69,556 manpower educated in FY19, the quantity elevated to 2,56,170 in FY20, according to the information sourced from the MSME Ministry’s Development Commissioner (MSME) — Skill Development Management Information System. The development price was also up from a 37.6 per cent jump in educated personnel in the course of the FY18-19 period.
Tool Rooms or Technology Centres provide precision tooling along with new technologies which includes CAD/CAM, CNC machining for tooling, vacuum heat therapy, fast prototyping, and so forth. apart from supplying skilled manpower. The current centres cater to markets such as footwear, electronic technique design and style and manufacturing (ESDM), aerospace, auto components, sports goods, glass, fragrance and flavour, and so forth. situated in cities and towns which includes in Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Chennai, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Pudi, Rohtak, Guwahati, and so forth.
The total skilled workforce strength in FY19 was out of 1,99,073 manpower becoming educated out of which 29,517 had been in-progress in the course of the monetary year. Likewise, the total manpower getting education in FY20 stood at 2,80,655 out of which 24,485 had been in-progress trainees. For FY21 so far, 46,980 was the total reported quantity of trainees at these 28 Tool Rooms and Technology Development Centres out of which 39,028 had been educated and 7,952 had been in-progress, according to the most up-to-date information as of January 4, 2021, on the Skill Development MIS.
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MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari in August 2020 had mentioned that the government is setting up 15 new Technology Centres along with upgrading the current 18 such centres to help MSMEs in their technical upgradation and also to build skilled manpower necessary to make India a manufacturing hub. However, the government is now seeking to lease these centers to engineering institutions for sensible education to the youth towards investigation and innovation.
“We already have a lot of technology centers in the country and till now we have invested Rs 6,000 crore in it. But now we are planning to give technology centers on a lease basis to engineering colleges, IITs, polytechnic colleges, and industry associations for them to understand what exactly practical training is needed in that area. We need to develop products, designs and it is the need of the hour,” Gadkari had mentioned in December in the course of a webinar organised by a pro-entrepreneurship alliance of organisations — Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME).