Enhancing Industrial Growth through Excellence of Manpower

YP Chawla ,
Advisor Joint Electricity Regulatory
Commission
National Jt. Secy. Indian Institution of Plant
Engineers
Research Scholar
+91 98107-08707
ypchawla@gmail.com;
yashchawla@hotmail.com

Dr RSP Singh
Associate Professor,
Indira Gandhi Nation Open
University ( IGNOU)
rspgsingh@gmail.com
rspsingh@ignou.ac.in
+9111 2957 1645
+91 98181 56941

Benchmarking Skill Standards

Benchmarked Skill Standards -Present
Skill Status = Skill Gaps

Yesterdays & Todays Parameters

Parameters
Power
Career Path

Yesterday
Natural Resources

Today
Knowledge

New Paradigm - Employees

Opportunity to Grow and Move up the
ladder

 Demographic dividend will accrue enough jobs are created general

education also gets job opportunities and career growth, as well as the
alignment of general education and TVET or Skilled / TVET trained people
are tailored suitably; else the dividend cheque is likely to bounce.
Drivers with big disruptive shifts that are likely to reshape the future
landscape of the Skill Sets and to be a confluence of several drivers working
together that produce true disruptions about future technologies and thus
future work skills.

The rise of smart machines and systems, Workplace automation nudging

the human workers out of rote, repetitive tasks, computational world will
bring in massive increases in sensors and processing power make the world
a programmable system, complementing the smart machines.

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Employment Scale for various phases of development

Phase
Primary Sector Secondary
Tertiary Sector
Sector
Initial Phase of 70 %
20%
10%
Economy/
development
Transitional Phase 40%
40%
20%
of
Economy/
Development
Investment Phase 10%
20%
70%
Remarks
This phase is Mechanization Mech./
for early part of / Automation Automation
the
increase from further increases
industrializatio Phase
to due to growing
n.
Phase.
Now demands of the
Machines
tertiary sector.
(Robots) are
manufacturing
Machines

What Are Skill Standards?

National Occupation Standards (NOS) in India & UK
are
The National Skill Standards in USA , Australia, New Zealand
Skill standards are performance specifications that identify the knowledge, skills and
abilities an individual needs to succeed in the workplace.
Critical to improving workforce skills, raising living standards, and improving the
competitiveness of the economy.
Skill Standards / National Occupational Standards have to be developed in most
industries ( Power Sector inclusive).
These Standards:
describe best practices in particular areas of work
bring together the skills, knowledge and values necessary to do the work as
statements of competence
provide managers with a tool for a wide variety of workforce management,
quality control and specification tasks
As a the basis of training and qualifications.
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What Are Skill Standards?.... Contd.

Industry based skill standards required to be:
Responsive to changing work organizations, technologies and market
structure.
Benchmarked to world-class levels of industry performance and free from
gender, racial, or other forms of bias.
Tied to measurable, competency-based outcomes that can be readily
assessed.
Useful for qualifying new hires and continuously upgrading employees
skills.
Applicable to a wide variety of education and training providers, based on
National Vocational Education Qualification Standards (NVQS).
Developed Involving all stake holders , independent of any single
training/education provider or type of education/training provider.

Why Are Skill Standards Important?

In todays work environment,
Jobs require high performance work processes & enhanced skills for cost
Competiveness.
Skill standards reflect changing workplace realities.
Skill Standards - a tool for various stake holders.
Nationally recognized Skill standards in Vocational fields for a common basis
for certifying achievement benchmarked to these standards, allowing
portability ( even across Industry Sectors) of skills across geographic areas,
companies and careers and also Internationally.
Skill and knowledge updating is a lifelong endeavor, forcing employers and
employees to spend more effort, time /money on education and training.
Skill standards are benchmarks for deciding education and training ,
shaping curriculum, and directing funds toward highest value education
and training investments

Measuring and improving skills the new global currency - Foreign

Currency Remittances ( OECD Report 26 May 2012)
Challenge: Low labor productivity harming manufacturing in India: Boston8

A quick Review of Status of NOS in Other Skill Sectors councils (SSCs)

Telecommunication Skill Sector Council
25 Qualification Packs (Service Providers, Network Management, Handset S
Segment & Passive Infrastructure) have been approved .
Gems & Jewelry Skill Council
National Occupational Standards ( NOS) for 57 job roles out of approximately 120
unique job roles in the Indian Gem & Jewelry Sector have been issued.
Rubber Skill Development Centre
Not yet developed any NOS for any job occupation.
Electronics Sector Skills Council of India : Not yet developed any NoS
Security Skill Development Council
Started preparing i.e. April 2009 Issued a total of 10 Nos , 5 have been revised till Nov
2014
NOS Sample Coverage ( Ref. Security Services, No Eng. Sector Ref. so far available.
Communicate effectively with others :
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Level SFS 4 - Communicate effectively with others Performance criteria
Able to: Develop and maintain communication with people
P1 communicate in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and
procedures
P2 communicate with people in a form and manner and using language that

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Retailers Associations Skill Council of India - Skill Standards have been

established
Media & Entertainment Skills Council
Logistics Sector Skills Council
Leather Sector Skill Council
Indian Plumbing Skills Council
Information Technology (IT)& IT enabled Services(ITeS) Sector Skill Council
Healthcare Sector Skill Council
Agriculture Sector Skill Council
Food Processing Sector Skill Council of India
Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI) Sector Skill Council of India
Indian Plumbing Skill Council
Capital Goods Sector Skill Council ( Includes Power Plant Equipment)- Min. of
Industry Launched on 8th Aug 2013
Power Sector Skill Council Not yet launched.

Technicians Difficult to Get

Project Management

Safety & Occupational

Materials Management

Plant Technicians

Automation Control

Insulation Technicians

LP Welders

Special Vehicle Drivers

Grinders

Gas Cutters

RT, Preheating & SR

NDT Technician

Gen. Gd. Technicians

80%
60%
40%
20%
0%

Occupation Difficult to Get - Technicians & Supervisors Power Sector Manufacturing/ Construction

Supervisors
Difficult To
Get

%
Respo
nseHard
to
Find
Skills

Interpersonal Competencies
- Supervisors
70%
50%
30%
10%

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3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0

Plant Operator Intake level

Plant OperatorCompetency
Requirement

Employability Skills - Power Plant Operators

 India needs Vishwamitras (Trainers) for Transforming our Work force

through Transition. These Vishwamitras can being in excellence in plant
management needed for enhancing our industrial growth. Action: Industry
& Skilling Institutions.
Scale and Speed (with in a time frame are a must for Skilling India- a must
for excelling in the plant management;. Action: Industry & Skilling
Institutions.
Skill Standards are to be developed faster, made known to the stakeholders
and everyone to work for meeting the requirements. Till Sector Skill
Councils finalize Skill Standards, Industry can come up these standards of
their own and can make a contribution in developing these voluntarily
Action: Industry & Skilling Institutions.
Enhancing Industrial growth base based on Zero defect ; Zero effect
(environment), Zero accident is behind the philosophy of Make in India,
enhancing industrial growth and achieving excellence in plant management.
Action: Industry.

Continuing to achieve excellence in plant management, Multiskilling

is answer to dynamic change in Technologies. Action: Industry and
Skilling Institutions

 Global Skill Validation

Green : 57 Countries Covered : Germany , Australia, China, Pak, Afgan

Yellow : 42 Countries under Process India, USA and UK
Grey : others no work initiated

Each unit of Skill competency describes:

Specific work activity
Conditions under which the work activity is conducted
Evidences are gathered to establish whether the activity is
being performed in a competent manner, thus providing
the basis for:
Recognition of Awareness, Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
within an enterprise / industry and across industries
Development of Skilling / Training program
Assessment / Verification Certification /Accreditation of the
skills as per the Skill Standards.

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Basic Skills of Reading,
Basic Skill of
Attitude to Cleanliness,
Idea Generation,
Basic Skill of Capacity
Teachable Fit -
Owns Responsibility -
Broad understanding of
Broad understanding
Maintain and
Interpret technical
Maintain and
Understanding of type
Simulation and
Awareness of advanced
Maintain and
Interpret technical
Calculations of
Design, simulation and
Assemble, and test
Maintain and
Technical specifications
Different techniques
Trouble shooting
Replacement, and
Downloading a
Understanding
Using Metal brake in
Basics of Robotic
Basics of Robotic
Motors, Actuators and

SKill Level

Skill Gaps in Automation - Entrants vs. Industry

Requirements

Entrant

Indl. Reqmt

 Financial Sectors start developing and

investments are made.
Today the tertiary sector has grown to such an
enormous size that it is sometimes further
divided into an information-based quaternary
sector, and even a quinary sector