Vocational educational in India aims to develop skilled manpower
through diversified courses to meet the requirements of mainly the
unorganised sector and to instill self-employment skills in people
through a large number of self employment oriented courses. Vocational
education is imparted through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and
polytechnics.
One of the weaknesses of Indian education system is that it does not
gives due importance to vocational education. As a result there is a
mismatch between the skilled manpower required and skilled manpower
available. Every year we churn out millions of graduates who do not have
the specific skill sets required by the market. If this trend continues
it would hurt our economic growth in the long run. To change this
situation first we need to change our mindset. In India, people are
obsessed with attaining a graduation degree and generally look down upon
vocational education. This has resulted in a situation where on the one
hand there are scores of unemployed graduates and on the other hand
there is a huge shortage of skilled workers such as plumbers,
electricians etc.
To rectify this situation vocational training programs in India need to
be promoted in a big way.
Vocational training courses include: