Government of India National Employment Service Area Skill Survey Kanpur

Abstract

The main objective of Area Skill Survey is to make an assessment of the current availability of skills and their requirements in the foreseeable future at area level. Besides filling up informational gaps, these surveys have thrown for the first time valuable information regarding avenues of self-employment opportunities that may be generated in the rural areas in the wake of modernisation of agriculture, expanding needs for maintenance and other services. The Expert Sub-Group of the National Employment Service representing State Directors drawn from each of the five zones, Planning Commission and Central Statistical Organisation which, evaluated these surveys besides suggesting certain improvements in the existing methodology and further refinement of techniques, found that the results of the study were of immense value in initiating measures for tackling problem of unemployment at the grass-root level, formulating schemes for expansion of self-employment, Career advice, Training and apprenticeship, Job development, Employment Market Information Programme, etc.