Coordinated Action for Skill Development

The coordinated action would aim at creating a pool of skilled personnel in appropriate numbers with adequate skills in line with the employment requirements across the entire economy with particular emphasis on the twenty-one high growth high employment sectors (10 in Manufacturing and 11 in Services) and re-engineering the process of certification and quality assurance under the existing formal system, and actively encouraging industry/service sector certification catering to the required content of the training and level of skills achieved by trainees for ready employability.

List of Twenty One High Growth/Priority Sectors

1. Automobile & Auto components

2. Banking/Insurance &Finance Services

3. Building & Construction Industry

4. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

5. Educational & Skill Development Services

6. Construction Materials/Building Hardware etc.

7. Electronics hardware

8. Food processing/Cold Chain/Refrigeration

9. Furniture & Furnishings

10. Gem & Jewellery

11. Health care services

12. ITES or Business (BPO) Process Outsourcing

13. ITS or Software Services/Products

14. Leather & Leather goods

15. Media, Entertainment, Broadcasting, Content Creation & Animation

16. Organised Retail

17. Real Estate Services

18. Textiles, Apparel & Garments

19. Tourism, Hospitality & Travel Trade

20. Transportation Logistics, Warehousing & Packaging etc.

21. Highly Dynamic Business/Professional Services