Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS)

SHREYAS Scheme

Question: Consider the following statement regarding SHREYAS:
1) Boost the employment skills of Indian youth through the National Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS) and the National Career Service (NCS)
2) Its target is to cover 50 lakh students by 2025
3) The scheme has been conceived for students in degree courses, primarily non-technical with a view to introduce employable skills into their learning
of the above correct statement/s is/are:
(a) Only(1)
(b) Only(1) and (2)
(c) Only(1) and (3)
(d) Only(3)
Answer :(c)

  • To provide industry apprenticeship opportunities to the general graduates exiting in April 2019, Minister for Human Resources Development, Prakash Javadekar has launched the Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS).
  • The aim of SHREYAS is to boost the employment skills of Indian youth by providing them with ‘on the job work exposure’ through the National Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS) and the National Career Service (NCS).
  • Its target is to cover 50 lakh students by 2022.
  • Ministry of Human Resources Development, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Labour and Employment are the three Ministries involved with this scheme.
  • Objective of the scheme is to establish an ‘earn while you learn’ system into higher education.

Phases of the Scheme:
1st Track: Add-on apprenticeship (Degree apprenticeship):

  • The students, who are about to complete the degree programme, would be invited to choose a job role of their choice from a selected list of apprenticeship or training job roles.
  • This apprenticeship programme would commence immediately after completion of the degree programme (Starting from May each year) with basic training regarding the sector and will long for 6 months.
  • During the apprenticeship period, the student would get a monthly stipend of about Rs 6,000 per month by the industry. At the end, successful students would get skills certificate in addition to their degree certificate.

2nd Track: Embedded Apprenticeship:

  • The existing B.Voc (Bachelor of Vocation) programmes would be restructured into B.A (Professional), B.Sc (Professional) or B.Com (Professional) courses. These courses would include educational input, vocational input, and mandatory apprenticeship of 6 to 10 months.
  • Alternatively, one full semester of an existing B.Voc course would be dedicated to apprenticeship with industry. During the apprenticeship period, the student would get a monthly stipend of about Rs 6,000 per month by the industry, 25 percent of which would be reimbursed under the NAPS programme.
  • At the end, successful students would get skills certificate in addition to their degree certificate on completing a test conducted by Sector Skill Council.

3rd Track: Linking National Career Service with Colleges:

  • Under this, the National Career Service (NCS) portal of Ministry of Labour & Employment would be linked with the Higher Education institutions. The students would be trained in soft skills required by the market. This would improve the employment opportunities.
  • The education with skills is the need of the hour and the SHREYAS will be a major effort in this direction to make our degree students more skilled, capable, employable and aligned to the needs of our economy so that they contribute to country’s progress and also obtain gainful employment.
  • The scheme has been conceived for students in degree courses, primarily non-technical with a view to introduce employable skills into their learning, promotes apprenticeship as integral to education and also amalgamates employment facilitating efforts of the government into the education system.

Achyutanand Pandey

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https://shreyas.ac.in/Home/about
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