Government is trying to improve the skills of
army jawans to help improve their re-employment prospects, Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar told the Rajya Sabha.
“We are now trying to work out real skill
improvement, so that they are aligned towards employment for which a lot of
exercise is going on,” he said.
Replying to supplementaries
during Question Hour, he said the resettlement training courses for jawans were
temporarily put on hold to align the courses to the new norms of the government
on skill development. “It has already been decided
to recommence the resettlement courses,” he said in his written reply.
He said while around 40,000-50,000 jawans
retired every year, around 30,000 jawans are trained for resettlement and
around 5,000 go to the Defence Service Corps (DSC) while some 10,000-15,000 opt
for their own available resources like agriculture. “In fact, we are now aligning the courses for
employment with at least 70 per cent success rate. So far, resettlement courses
were not aligned to any employment directly. Mostly, they were getting jobs in
a security agency,” he said.
He added that the Ministry has
also entered into an MoU on the Skill Development network belonging to Wadhwani
Foundation and it is assisting the Ministry of Defence in creating various
databanks and giving suggestions. “There is
no payment involved. It is done by the trust from its own funds,” he said,
adding that the Foundation is analysing the kind of manpower available and then
find out what jobs are available in PSUs and Government services where
reservation policy is there.
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