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Our Chief Minister is also a Member in it. The Chief Ministers of States like Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry Tripura and Tamil Nadu are there; CEO, NITI Aayog is the Coordinator of the Sub-Group. It shows that the Government of India and the hon. Prime Minister are giving importance to this Department.
In that meeting, the Sub-Group of Chief Ministers gave its recommendations, which states that :
“The Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development deliberated on various issues relating to improving quality, relevance, quantity, aspirations, mobility and financing of skill development at length in its meetings with the implementing Ministries, member and non-member States, and through State visits to study best practices. The major highlights of the recommendations made by the Sub-Group were as follows: Integrated Delivery Framework for Achieving Convergence. The State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs) should evolve into a coordinating body to harmonize the skilling efforts across line departments / private agencies / voluntary organizations etc. The common norms announced at the central level may be adopted by the SSDMs so as to have State-specific guidelines for skill development programmes. (ii) For decentralized implementation and to ensure effective coordination and monitoring of skill development initiatives a three-tier structure at State, district and block level for SSDMs was proposed. Pattern of DRDA to coordinate skill efforts at district level can be adopted for effective coordination and interaction with local self-Government, civil society, training provider, industry and other stakeholders.”.
 
These are the findings of the Committee of Chief Ministers. It further states in its conclusion that :
“With a renewed focus on the Capacity Building efforts from the Government, various initiatives in public as well as the private sector have already been taken up to harness the advantage of ‘Demographic dividend’ in India. However, skill development initiatives in the domain of agriculture can play lasting impact in retaining the rural youth in agriculture sector through making it technology oriented with less drudgery. Though several efforts are taken up proactively to facilitate income generation through employment of rural people and also for growth in agriculture, improvement in the operational strategies of the training institutions along with the involvement of industry players is the need of the hour. While the country is bracing itself, the mountainous task of building the skills of millions, it is time for making innovative and holistic efforts for focusing on the targeted employment generation and market efficiency building towards sustainable growth in agriculture production and employment.”.

          Coming to Andhra Pradesh, we require nine lakh skilled workers in areas of smart cities, grids, industrial hubs, IT, etc. in the next four years to build the new State as per the State Skill Development Corporation but if you look at the targets and achievement under the Skill Development Initiative Scheme from 2011-12 to 2014-15, we have not achieved even one-third of it. It was targeted to provide 1.6 lakh skilled force but only 50,000 have been able to be provided with skills.

          There is sudden euphoria on skill development shown by the present Government and the figure of skilling 500 million Indians by 2022 is in itself a difficult endeavour. Let's take one real example: MES (Modular Employable Skills) under the SDI (Skill Development Initiative) scheme through DGET, Ministry of Labour and Employment, GOI. In this scheme, special emphasis is given to skill development in the North East, J&K and other disturbed areas. Here, thousands of students from North East are brought to Delhi NCR and their travel, boarding and lodging for 4-6 months, training, security, final assessment and final placement of at least 70%  students is taken care of by different VTP (Vocational Training Providers).