“Jobs At Your Doorstep” Report

Source: PIB

Context: Union Minister launched the “Jobs at Your Doorstep” report by the World Bank.

• This report focuses on diagnostics for the employment landscape in six Indian states and highlights strategies to align education and skilling with India’s jobs agenda.

About Jobs at Your Doorstep Report:

• Purpose: Provides a diagnostic roadmap to align skill education with employment opportunities.

• Coverage: Focuses on six STARS states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Rajasthan.

• Key Features: Addresses the skills gap by aligning school trades with district-specific industry needs. Promotes a bottom-up approach to skill development, emphasizing local market-driven training. Integrates skilling into school education for grades 9-12, ensuring future workforce readiness. Envisions 50% student access to skill education by 2025 and 100% by 2030 under NEP 2020.

• Addresses the skills gap by aligning school trades with district-specific industry needs.

• Promotes a bottom-up approach to skill development, emphasizing local market-driven training.

• Integrates skilling into school education for grades 9-12, ensuring future workforce readiness.

• Envisions 50% student access to skill education by 2025 and 100% by 2030 under NEP 2020.

• STARS Program: Supported by the World Bank, this scheme strengthens teaching, learning, and results for skill-based education in schools.

About STARS Program: (Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States)

• Launch and Duration: Approved in October 2020, effective from 2021 for five years, till FY 2024-25.

• Implementation: Managed by the Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education, with financial assistance from the World Bank.

• Target States: Covers six states—Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Kerala—to enhance the quality of school education.

• Alignment with NEP 2020: Focuses on improving quality-based learning outcomes in line with the objectives of the National Education Policy 2020.

• Scope: Carved out from Samagra Shiksha, emphasizing components directly linked to educational quality enhancement.

Insta links:

• Stars-programme