The Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation(TN Skill )has actually up until now provided over 41 lakh ability accreditations to more than 14 lakh studens throughout the State, Kranthi Kumar Pati, Managing Director, TN Skill, stated on Wednesday.
Making a discussion on the State’s ability advancement efforts at a capability structure and awareness workshop for the southern zone arranged by the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET), Mr. Pati stated that TN Skill has actually struck a special trainee count of 14.6 lakh thanks to numerous efforts by the federal government, particularly the flagship Naan Mudhalvan plan. He stated that upskilling courses have actually been incorporated into the university credit system where, for every single term, trainees need to take a course of 45 hours as an optional topic. The training is provided by market specialists, and the examination is carried out by a third-party organisation. Trainees get credit in their routine university credit system. “Traditionally, we have actually seen that such efforts get clustered into a couple of organizations, a couple of metropolitan centres. The most return we have actually seen remains in the rural, furthest parts where trainees throughout the State might gain from this effort,” Mr. Pati observed.
Responding to concerns from professionals, he stated the majority of the courses were being run by partner organisations from the market, like Oracle, CISCO, IBM, Google or Microsoft, and the mode of shipment was both online and in-person. The courses were initially begun in numerous engineering streams and were later on reached Arts and Science courses also, having actually mapped each stream to the pertinent market.
K. Veera Raghava Rao, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare and Skill Development Department, stated that ability advancement was barely fixed and kept altering regularly throughout sectors. He stated States ought to defend against the propensity of stagnancy as the community moves from the leading to the field level training partners.
Vinita Aggarwal, Executive Member, NCVET, stated that function of the workshop was to distribute awareness about the Council’s efforts, a significant one being acknowledgment provided to granting bodies and evaluation companies. The NCVET had, she stated, acknowledged 147 granting bodies and 68 evaluation companies throughout the nation. “If we enhance the quality of these 2 bodies, we can enhance skilling to a fantastic degree,” Dr. Aggarwal included.
Jayant Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Education, wanted the individuals through a video message. Tamil Nadu, stakeholders from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Puducherry and Lakshadweep got involved.
Released – September 25, 2025 05:45 am IST
