Govt Barking Up Wrong Tree, says VSDTC Study

Government-sponsored shortterm trainings are useless, a state study shows. A monitoring and evaluation report of Vocational and Skill Development Training Center (VSDTC) over 55 per cent of trained people are unemployed despite their skills and knowledge.

VSDTC's monitoring of 1,825 trainees of the present fiscal year shows that 252 people got jobs after training and 563 are self-employed. Five trainees got jobs overseas. VSDTC is a governmentowned training centre under the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management (MoLTM). The training centre trained 21,741 people last year. Around 6,358 people got 16 different types of training in the central office at Bhaisepati in Lalitpur alone.

VSDTC's officials are not satisfied with the performance. "We should focus on full-fledged skill development," said inspector Jeevan Bhandari. He urged for integrating marketing skill.

Section officer Sarita Prasai advised training those who can use it as a tool of life. "It should be need-based," she said. However, acting director general Varun Kumar Jha claimed VSDTC's trainings were not useless. "We need to improve standards," he said. VSDTC is planning to train 21,800 people under 18 different programmes this year.

VSDTC has been providing Employment Permit System (EPS) orientation training to EPS aspirants. The training is based on lifestyle -- language, culture, banking system and industrial safety -- and meant for people going to South Korea. Around 3,776 EPS aspirants have taken orientation here, said Bikash Mohan Joshi, VSDTC officer.