Preparing Future-Ready Workforce: Goyal

Govt setting up a committee with representatives from Centre, States, and private sector and will identify futuristic key focus areas, where there is demand - Piyush Goyal, Union Industry Minister

New Delhi: A committee will be set up under the National Manufacturing Mission to get into the details on issues like cutting cost of doing business (CoDB); preparing future-ready workforce; and availability of technology to further promote Make in India initiative, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said.

Representatives from the Centre, States, and private sector are expected to be there in the committee. It would identify key focus areas, which are futuristic and where there is demand both in the domestic and foreign markets, and come up with recommendations on “what we should do. A committee will be set up under the mission which will go into the details and examine all the issues in detail like the role of Centre, and States.

Different ministries will be involved, private players will also be involved and they will inform about sectors which have huge competitive advantages in India and which have export potential,” Goyal told PTI. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the mission covering small, medium and large industries for furthering ‘Make in India’ by providing policy support, execution roadmaps, governance and monitoring framework for central ministries and states.