The Border Security Force (BSF) signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
The MoU will enable NSDC to provide skill training to retired and retiring BSF personnel, as well as to the population residing in the border areas.
The collaboration between BSF and NSDC aims to train and provide gainful employment to retired BSF personnel and their families, school students, youth, differently abled for five years (April 2017 to April 2022).
The programme will be appropriately named keeping in view the objectives and will have BSF co-branding with Skill India and NSDC.
It will contribute to Skill Development Agenda of the country by ensuring the successful roll out of NSQF (National Skill Qualification Framework) based skill training to the retiring or retired BSF personnel and local population.
The skill training will be based NSQF compliant training programmes at multi-skill development centres run by BSF.
This will help in meeting the aspirations of the stakeholders for training and employment. The skill training project will be of a limited to 5 years period in mission mode.
Moreover, the curriculum development and capacity building under the programme will be encouraged to enable the model to be self-sustaining over time.
About National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)- The NSDC is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship.
- Its overall objective of NSDC is to create training capacity in the country; fund vocational training initiatives and create a market ecosystem for skill development.
- Its mandate is to train 150 million people by 2022.
