Sector Skill Councils
Since its inception, one of the major pillars of NSDC’s strength are Sector Skill Councils (SSCs), which play a vital role in bridging the gap between what the industry demands and what the skilling requirements ought to be.
The National Occupational Standard is one of the most significant contributions of NSDC to India’s skilling ecosystem – something that was made possible by the SSCs, which are national partnership organizations that bring together all the stakeholders – industry, labour and the academia.
The SSCs operate as an autonomous body and could be registered as a Section 8 Company, or a Society. NSDC is mandated to initiate and incubate SSCs with initial seed funding to facilitate their growth and enable them to achieve self-sustainability in a time bound manner
The Ministry has been actively engaging with these SSCs.
- Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship under the Chairmanship of the Hon’ble MoS (I/C) held meetings with all the Sector Skill Council (SSC) in the month of January, 2018 to integrate them into the National Agenda on Skilling.
- The Ministry also organized meetings at the Joint Secretary level with the line Ministries of Sector Skill Councils like Food Processing, Healthcare, Agriculture, IT/ITeS, Telecom, Retails etc. to align the activities of the SSC completely with these Ministries.
- The Ministry, along with NSDC and Sector Skill Councils, organized sectoral workshops on Apprenticeship.
- The Ministry has issued a notification that enables SSCs to join the list of non-statutory bodies which issue nationally recognised skills certificates.