NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP WITH JSS

Directorate of Adult EducationNATIONAL LITERACY MISSION AUTHORITY

Department of School Education & LiteracyMinistry of Human Resource Development

Government of IndiaNew Delhi

Dec 28-29, 2012 at Bhubaneswar

SCHEME OF JAN SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN

• The first Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) (earlier called Shramik Vidyaeeth) was started at Mumbai (Worli) in the year 1967.

• Aims to provide vocational skills to industrial workers in the urban areas.

• Focus of JSS was shifted from industrial workers in the urban areas to the numerous neo-literates and unskilled youth in both urban and rural areas from the year 2000.

TARGET GROUP

• JSS will concentrate those who are in the age group of 15 – 35 years having no or rudimentary level of education (up to 5th Standard)

• Priority Groups are such as women, SCs/STs/OBCs, other economically weaker sections, minorities and rural areas/urban slums.

PROGRAMMES

• JSS organise two types of programmes:• Vocational Courses : Training programmes

involving skills/practical application leading to income generation.

• At present more than 500 varieties of vocational courses are being run by JSSs.

• Activities : Few awareness programmes organised other than Life Enrichment Education components like soft skills, HIV/AIDS, RCH and Adolescent Issue etc.

CURRICULUM

• No JSS is allowed to conduct vocational skills without standardised curriculum.

• 36 vocational courses standardised by DAE.• 23 vocational course curriculum were

standardised by NIFT.• Adopted more than 400 vocational course

curriculum of DGE&T, Ministry of Labour & Employment , NIOS and other courses approved by the competent authorities.

MONITORING

• JSSs progress is being monitored through web portal.

• The portal provides all the details about JSSs, beneficiaries, resource persons, staff with photographs etc.

• Annual Action Plan of JSSs are approved through web portal.

• Half yearly review meetings are being conducted.

EVALUATION

• Performance of JSSs is not only monitored through review meetings and visits by officers but also through external evaluating agencies.

• Impact evaluation conducted once in a three year by reputed agencies like IIMs, MDI, University departments and Social Science Research Institutes.

Memorandum of UnderstandingBetween NLMA and NIOS

• MoU was signed on 21-6-2012 with the following Aims and Objectives:

• Impart vocational skills training that has standardized curriculum for the target groups of JSSs and S.B programme.

• To evolve strategies for the effective implementation of equivalency programme in academic and vocational skills development of the target group of National Literacy Mission Authority.

Memorandum of UnderstandingBetween NLMA and NIOS

• To develop assessment process including certification under vocational and equivalency programme.

• To provide academic support to the beneficiaries of JSSs in terms of vocational training, assessment and certification.

• NLMA and NIOS will identify need based vocational courses as and when required.

Roles and Responsibilities of NLMA

• Identification of adult beneficiaries specially women and disadvantaged groups.

• Impart functional literacy, basic education and life long learning .

• Impart vocational skills that have curriculum, market demand taking into account inputs provided by NIOS.

• Prepare a database of vocational skills and beneficiaries of each JSS

Roles and Responsibilities of NLMA

• Identification of the study centers, getting accreditation from NIOS for course delivery.

• Provide necessary infrastructure to carry out vocational programme.

• Provisions of necessary financial assistance towards admission and assessment fee payable to NIOS.

ROAD AHEAD• Planning Commission’s Working Group on EE&L

for 12th Five Year Plan has inter-alia recommended that

* Skill Development under Adult Education be fully compliant with NVEQF.

* Curriculum developed by Pandit Sunderlal Sharma, Central Institute of Vocational Institute, Bhopal may be adopted or adapted by the programmes run by the adult education.

* Competency based assessment of beneficiaries should be conducted by the recognized assessors appointed by NLMA.

ROLE OF JSS• Identify new partners to create opportunities for

employment / self employment like Coimbatore Model.

• Adopt new courses which have local demand including traditional courses, curriculum should be approved by competent authority.

• Infrastructure, qualified Resource Persons, sufficient TLM to be ensured for NIOS accreditation.

• Prepare Database vocational skills and beneficiaries.• Preparedness for Third Party Assessment.• Feedback mechanism.

THANKS