Abstract: Productive employment is a basic individual right since it not only provides a wage but also an expression of self-fulfillment and dignity advancing the global jobs agenda requires preparing and enabling people to acquire and succeed in jobs through skills development. Skill based education improves functional and analytical ability and thereby opens up opportunities for individuals and also groups to achieve greater access to labour markets and livelihoods. A better educated labour force is essential if we are to meet the labour supply requirements of faster growth. Education is not only an instrument of enhancing efficiency but is also an effective tool of widening and augmenting democratic participation and upgrading the overall quality of individual and societal life. People with more education and skills are more valued by employers and are better able to take advantage of new economic opportunities and productivity-boosting technologies, and to raise the productivity of their co-workers or their businesses.
This paper provides a brief overview on how skill based education i.e. vocational training can help people to be a self-employed or productive employed, these study is carried out on a rural area of MAJULI, Assam on a vocational training institute. Our study is conducted to understand and appreciate the importance of skill based education and how it helps in productive employment. From this study we found that vocational education is a wonderful creation for helping people in making themselves self-employed.
Keywords: skill based education, vocationalisation, self-employment, productive employment.
Title: Importance of Skill Based Education on Generating Employment, Special Reference to Subdivision Majuli, Jorhat, Assam
Author: Gobinda Krishna Borah
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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