India has the world’s largest youth population with nearly a half under 25 yrs. of age and two thirds under the age of 35 yrs. India is likely to have the world’s largest workforce by 2027, with a billion people aged between 15 to 64 years. By 2022, 63% of the population will be in the working-age group. Nearly 1.5M people join the job market every year while only 2% are adequately trained for available profiles. To mitigate this issue the government has taken mammoth skilling initiatives at different levels.

Looking at the challenges faced by the government in their massive skilling mission, we propose a Skills Accelerator, which is an accelerated Future Skills training program based on a project-oriented methodology, and creation of real solutions for real problems, delivered in a physical center, to rural and semi-urban youth.Skills Accelerator provides the missing link between Inspiring students and Empowering them with technical curriculum.  Skills Accelerator enables students to develop the much-needed foundational skills, aligned with the 4th Industrial revolution (IR) and creates a pathway for technical jobs. In this case IBM’s Cognitive curriculum will be deployed after developing the foundational skills in the Skills Accelerator.

Skills Accelerator enables students to develop the much-needed foundational skills, aligned with the 4th Industrial revolution (IR) and creates a pathway for technical jobs. In this case IBM’s Cognitive curriculum will be deployed after developing the foundational skills in the Skills Accelerator.

• Build skills of the future. Lessen the gap between the skills that the education system is developing in the students today vs. future skills in Data sciences and BlockChain
• Along with IT skills, the Skills Accelerator is designed to equip the students with hard-to-find soft skills such as communication, collaboration and creativity, as well as uniquely human traits like empathy, relationship-building, cognitive ability, curiosity and the desire to learn
• The Skills Accelerator will further drive the connectors with the students, school dropouts and build a talent pipeline and job creation models for industries
• Promote quality connections for the rural communities and key stakeholders in their ecosystem linked to markets for enhancing their livelihoods in a sustainable manner
• Engage in a cultural relook. Encourage self-learning, innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship to raise students to be original thinkers who can be uniquely productive
• Establish Schools for industry pathways. Focus on subject-enrichment by strengthening the ‘practical’ aspect, integrate fieldwork and use project-based approaches for lifelong learning