Democratising Access to

Employability Skills
 1. The Context: Skilling for Blue-Collar Jobs is Imperative for Inclusive Growth

~5 Mn Join the Workforce Every Year 2/3rd of the Jobs are the Blue Collared (300 Mn)
% Distribution of Population by Age
Graduates and above 2.5-3% Skill level 5 (managerial)
Demographic
Bulge: 35%
(~500 mn) in Skill level 4 (middle level)
15-35 Age 18~19%

Group

Middle & Bottom of the

Diploma holders
12~13% Skill level 3 (supervisory

Pyramid (MBOP)
level)

Skill level 1 –
School dropouts 2 (entry level)
66%
/ 10th, 12th pass

Mostly Non-Farm Jobs in MSMEs with

~60% School Dropouts, 40% Rural and 60% BOP
< 12 Years of Schooling Needed

Need for Short-Term Job Linked Skilling at Scale

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Source: 2022 United Nations DESA, Population Division http://population.un.org/wpp/
 2. Government Response: Skill India

Ministry of Skill Development and State Skill

Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development Missions

National Skill Development

Corporation (NSDC)

Certified
Sector Skill Councils Trainees
Training Partners Industry
& Training Partners
Multilaterals

Companies
under CSR

Government
Schemes for
the
Disadvantaged
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 3. Learnet Skills: Democratising Access to Employability Skills

Leading TVET Company of India Providing

Skilling and Upskilling Services to India’s Youth
through a Blended Delivery Model
Subsidiary of Schoolnet India, in
partnership with National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC)
2.5 Million
Youth Skilled and Upskilled

Addressing the need for a scalable solution that 100

would provide: Institutes across 22 States

1. Job-Linked Skill Development for Job

Seeking Youth ~180
2. Career Direction Setting to Support Industry Simulated Training Labs
School to Workforce Transition
3. Upskilling and Reskilling for Already 11+
Employed to address Skills Obsolescence Years of Operation

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 4. Our TVET Offerings

Market Oriented Blended Delivery 360o Approach to Forward Linkages

Training Programs Model Training for Placements

Short Term Long Term Entrepreneurship Training for Overseas

Programmes Programmes Development Placements
Programme
• Skills for Jobs: Skills @ School and • Short/Long Term
Placement-linked skilling/ Upskilling training/upskilling
Entrepreneurship Skills
upskilling for the youth for
• In partnership with schools, • Entrepreneurship & • Tie-ups for placements in
entry-level jobs
colleges and universities domain training & capacity Japan, the Middle East and
• 6+ months to 3 years building Australia
duration • Incubation for establishing
enterprises, support for
market linkages, business
facilitation & networking

Phygital Delivery Model: Physical, Digital and Blended

Physical Institute Based – Proprietary Digital Training

100+ in 20 States + Delivery Platform

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 4.1. Short-Term Programs (up to 6 months Duration)

Skills for Jobs Upskilling

• 300 – 1,000 hours duration, market- • Short term (20-60 hours) reskilling,
led placement-linked vocational skills upskilling, assessment and certification
programs for the youth for entry-level of existing workforce: formal and
jobs (100+ trades in ~17 sectors) informal sector
• Domain Skills training along with Life • Sponsors: Government, Employers,
Skills, Functional English and Digital Corporates (CSR)
Literacy
• 1.4+ million people
• Sponsors: Government, Employers, reskilled/upskilled
Corporates (CSR), Trainees

• 1.1 million youth trained & placed:

64% from Below Poverty Line (BPL)
groups now earning between INR 9k-
15k per month

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 4.2. Long-term Programs (6 months – 3 years duration)

Degree Program in Partnership

Skills@Schools
with Universities & Colleges
• Continuous Vocational • 3-year B.Voc degree program on
Education & Training integrated Vocational Skills & General
into the school curriculum (up Education, with multiple entries
to 4 years) – Acts as a feeder to and exits in partnership with
degree programs with career Universities on a blended model
counselling guidance
• Target Group: Class XII pass-
• Target Group: Grade IX-XII outs, working professionals
School Students
• Partnerships with 4 universities
• 60,000 students trained on an and 15 colleges: Trained
ongoing basis in 1,000+ ~4,000+ candidates
schools

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4.3. Entrepreneurship Skills for Self-Employment & Job Creation

Fashion Entrepreneurship
Inspire people, These are They are taught Post-training,
Development Programme
especially women, aspirational, domain, soft skills, students are
to become job trainee-paid business mentored and
creators rather courses. Students facilitation, handheld to ensure
than jobseekers are offered credit developing forward their businesses
linkages & loan and backward take off.
options before linkages etc.
enrolling

Edupreneur Programme Duration: 3-6 months

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 4.4. Training for Overseas Placement (TOPS)
In Partnerships with NSDC, OTIT Japan, Ministry of External Affairs, GoI

• 6-12 months’ training program in relatively high-paying blue-collar

jobs overseas, at $400 - $1500 per month
• Target Segment: ITI/ diploma holders/GNA/Nursing
• Training Model:
• Classroom and hands-on practical training on domain & language
(Japanese) skills under Technical Intern Training Program (TITP)
• Pre-departure orientation training (PDOT) on country-specific
culture, language skills, life skills, departure formalities
• Assessed per recruiters’ standards as part of the India International
Skills Network
• Current Focus Geographies: Middle East, Japan, Australia

• Placed 30+ candidates in the Middle East and Japan.

• ~50 undergoing training for placement under TITP. ~1500 trained
under PDOT

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 5. Capability and Track Record Built Over 1 Decade of Operation

01 03

Domain Understanding Execution Capability

• Deep domain expertise across multiple vocational sectors • ~ 150,000 p.a. in >20 labour intensive sectors through
100 Institutes (10+ within Indian Army)
• Industry-endorsed courses aligned to
National Occupational Standards • Caters to 100+ job roles in 20 sectors
• 18,000 hours of multimedia content • ~180 + Simulated Labs and 1,000 Certified Trainers

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Reach, Network and Impact Partnerships

• 2.5 Mn youth trained, of which 1.1 Mn trained with 80% • Partnerships with 1,000+ employers
employment; and 1. 4 Mn upskilled additionally • Existing relationships with 20 Ministries of the Central
• 40% of trainees are women; 40% are from socially and State Governments; NSDC, Sector Skills Council,
disadvantaged groups Common Services Centres
• 3x – 4x Social Return on Investment

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 6. Our Social Impact – 3-4x SROI

2.5 M 40% 41% 60% 15%

youth skilled/ of trainees of trainees of trainees of trainees
upskilled are from
are women are 10th pass are from
socially
or below conflict zones
75%
disadvantaged (LWE, North-east, J&K)
groups
placement

Meena Saket is one of our 2.5 million+ trainees who has found a new direction in life with our employment-linked skills program

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 7. Our Partners
Governments Employers
Corporates
Partnerships with 14 Govt of India
Through CSR : ~50 Companies 40 Companies
Ministries; 22 State Governments

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 8. Key Models of Sponsorships – Case Studies

To enhance employability and income prospects of low-income Indians, to maximise economic potential and
enhance their quality of life through outcome-based contracts

Skill India Impact Bond Generation India Foundation UN Women

• An outcome-based contract set • Generation India (a not-for- • Learnet and its technical partner
out to achieve measurable profit founded by McKinsey & Generation India with the
outcomes established by the Co) aims to provide job offers to support of UN Women, designed
outcome payer and the risk all learners under the program an up-skilling program on
with an employment rate of 90%, “COVID-19 Pandemic
• 3,000+ youth trained, with 70% and 75% retention at 3 months Management” to capacitate
retained for over 3 months post-placement female healthcare workers
• 7,000+ youth trained, with 60% • Trained 10,000 Nurses & Nurse
retained for more over 3 months Assistants

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 Skill Training Programme for Youth in Barmer, RJ
– A CSR Initiative of CAIRN Enterprise
Objective Delivery Model Impact

To train, certify and gainfully • District Saturation approach- • 15,000+ youth outreached
employ 70% of youth into outreach all the blocks
sustainable employment • Training through Cairn CoE • 10,000+ trained with 80%
• Industry acclimatization & employment with Rs 9000-
interface - guest lecture, 10000 average monthly
industry visits, OJT
salary

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 Mahindra CIE Automotive: Swades Foundation: Skilling of GAIL (India) : 2 Flagship CSR
Skills Institute at Bhosari, Pune youth in Raigarh Dist, initiatives, Gail- Learnet
Maharashtra Institute of Skills, Guna & AP
• Created state-of-the-art skills institute
with practical labs and classrooms, for • Mobilization, counselling and • Created world-class skill development
Auto/Engg sector – Fitters, CNC training of youth from 7 blocks in institutes for GAIL (India) in Guna (MP)
operators, Industrial Welders, Tool & Die Raigarh District and Nagaram (AP) with an annual
Maker job roles • Establishment of 3 multi skill training capacity of 1500+youth
centres
• Facility created next to Mahindra CIE • Training on diverse job roles like • More than 16000 + rural unemployed
factory at Bhosari electrician, CNC operator, fitter, data youth trained with 80% gainful
entry, beauty therapist, F&B steward employment
• 620 candidates trained so far and 80% mason, etc
placed in auto / engg companies like Tata • More than 70+ employers engaged
Motors, Tata Autocomp, KSB, Mahindra & • 4,200 + candidates trained so far
Mahindra, JBM, Tecctrol, etc and with 80% placement • Model: Onsite, Blended

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Upskilling Programme for Truck Drivers – Castrol India; Project
Saarthi Mitra
Objective • To train drivers on
• Road Safety
• Financial Literacy
• Digital Literacy
• Vision Check up
Location • Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh
Delivery • Blended- Onsite and online
Models • Onsite training delivery -based truckers’
accessibility
• 5 hours training program comprising of Road
Safety, Digital and Financial Literacy followed by
vision check up
• Active stakeholder engagement- industry bodies,
truck associations, transporters etc.

• ~ 100,000 truck drivers trained

• ~60% facilitated with vision correction
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