The Centre has stated that the Prime Ministers of Australia and India have made skill development a priority area of engagement in multiple sub-domains such as skill delivery, quality assessments and creation of transnational standards to ensure international mobility of India’s workforce.

New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), currently engaged in transforming NDMC area into a Smart City with global benchmarks, has embarked on a large scale skill development drive for enhancing employment opportunities and increasing productivity as mandated under the Smart City Mission Guidelines.

The Logistics Sector Skill Council (LSC) trains candidates at the entry level for the warehousing sub sector. Training is done on specific job roles such as pickers/ packers/ binning /kitting/labelling and forklift and reach truck operators, and warehouse supervisors i.e., an ´outcome´ based training, which ensures candidates are job ready from day one.

A cess of Rs.8,000 on each domestic flight could be the alternative to the aviation ministry's proposed 2 per cent surcharge on flight tickets to fund regional connectivity.

The focus should heavily be on skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling of labour resources. In order to grow and make campaigns like ´Make in India´ a success, the industry needs access to talent that is ´job ready´-talent that needs minimal or no training when recruited for a particular role.