A Post Budget forum on‘PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan Creating Community for Accelerated Profitable Growth’ held on 28th February, 2022. In the forum, a session on‘Logistics pool strategy-. Enhancing skill and employment openings’ was also organized.
Shri K Sanjay Murthy, Secretary, Shri Rajesh Agarwal, Secretary, Shri Amitabh .Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog; Shri Amrit Lal Meena, Special Secretary, Logistics; Shri Giridhar Aramane, . Secretary, MoRTH; and Shri Anurag Jain, Secretary, DPIIT and representatives of various associations . changed their views on the progressive announcements made in the Budget to bolster India’s transportation and logistics sector that would be necessary in creating new openings of employment and take the country on the road to inclusive profitable increase.
Shri Rajesh Aggarwal said that the exchanges will aim to address the various challenges faced by the logistics sector especially with a view to meliorate our domestic logistics network and Gati Shakti can be a light in this direction. He further said that the logistics sector, which employs around Twenty-Two crore people, requires. multi-stakeholder collaboration on skilling.
Shri Aggarwal stressed that Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and other ministries have formerly trained further than five crore people. Also, the Logistics Sector Skill Council has . trained at least seven lakh contenders in job places like documentation adjunct, force clerks, courier . delivery, and storage related jobs. Going forward, we need to identify scholars who are suited for the . logistic skilling and reskilling models. He expreed that aligning itself with the New National Education Policy, the SSC has launched courses in ITIs and polytechnics not only for engineers but also for humanity . scholars. He expressed his confidence that with cooperative sweats we will be suitable to develop a cost-effective Modern structure that will empower India further.
Talking about the need of institution structure, Shri K Sanjay Murti said that establishing an exclusive college for logistics might not be the right approach. Rather, we should have well defined and structured . courses in being universities, which will serve the sedulity’s conditions. He informed that they have formerly developed a draft module and circulated to All India Council for Technical Education, IITs and NITs with the . end to give all scholars, across disciplines, the access to a 20 credit or 40 credit courses. Going forward, through National Institute of Industrial Engineering, we are also working on other courses that will . be available on the online and in the Digital University declared in Union Budget 2022, he added.
During the session, Mr R. Dinesh, Chairman Logistics Sector Skill Council & MD, TVS Supply Chain. Results, stated that there is a need to look at embedding, international aspects of skilling in the Indian . terrain as Logistics being global and India aspiring to be the mortal capital for the world, bringing in . transnational equality for the classes for all the courses in Logistics need to be emphasized.
Anil Sahasrabudhe said that there is a huge demand in the logistics sector worldwide and multitudinous big players are choosing to have their backend services in India. We need to produce a robust pool of 30 million in the coming numerous times, which is equipped to shoulder the demands of the sedulity. As a result, we must produce awareness . when scholars are still in academe so they are encouraged to take up logistics-applicable courses in scale, he . added. He emphasised on the need of collaboration between different ministries of the government in order to educate the youth of our country and use their knowledge to come up with innovative results for the challenges faced by the sector. (Source)
