Skill Gap Analysis in Uttar Pradesh: A Study of Selected Districts

Authors

  • K.Srinivasa Rao

Abstract

Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic and social development for any
country/state. Each industry contributes, to the economy and also to fulfil the peoples’ demand, through its
products or services to fit in the job roles specific to their industry. The main problem is the present
educational system does not focus on industry specific requirements; unemployment due to availability of
required skilled people for the right job; therefore we witness skill gaps with respect to different industry
requirements. In view of this the present paper wants to examine and analyse the Identification of skill gaps
in each industry, supply of skills, demand of skills, balance of the supply and demand in each selected
district and Uttar Pradesh as a whole.
To achieve the objectives of this paper, the author used the Economic Census (5th and 6th Rounds) data, as
compared with other sources like ASI, NSSO, Census, CSO, RBI etc., to forecast the requirement of skills in
each industry by 2022, and also supply of skills data forecasted upto 2022 on the basis of Government
Publications related to vocational education and training and other relevant sources. In this paper, G.B.Nagar
(Western Region) and Jhansi (Bundelkhand region) are the relatively developed districts whereas Etah
(Western Region) and Banda (Bundelkhand region) are backward districts selected on the basis of composite
index for this study. As a result, in comparison with other sectors the highest labour will be absorbed in the
following districts accordingly. The demand of skills requirement in relatively developed districts like,
G.B.Nagar shows Manufacturing sector, Jhansi shows Retail Trade (not covered in Item 10, Wholesale,
Retail Trade and Repair of Motor vehicles and Motor Cycles) which will absorb more labour by 2022. On
the other hand backward districts like Etah requires Livestock and Dairying, Crop Production and Banda
shows Livestock and Dairying will absorb more labour along with others by 2022. Over all in Uttar
Pradesh, Livestock and Dairying, Retail Trade (not covered in Item 10, Wholesale, Retail Trade and Repair
of Motor vehicles and Motor Cycles), Manufacturing and Crop Production will absorb more labour along
with others by 2022 respectively

Published

2020-04-30

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