Due to its high potential for development, demographic dividend and skilled workers, India is poised to be the leading provider of human resources in the coming decade. State Governments are faced with the responsibility of harnessing and leveraging these human resources and getting the country future ready. To further this endeavour, the Government of India has laid out a systematic plan to enforce efforts to raise the quality and standards of available and upcoming human resources. HR Development is envisaged at all levels including Education, Research, Industry and Trade.
Shouldering this responsibility, the Kerala State has launched a project named State Skill Development Project to empower its youth with cutting-edge skills in order to alleviate the unemployment in the state. This project is structured around two approaches: ASAP(Additional Skill Acquisition Programme) and curative approaches (Additional Skill Enhancement Programme). Despite having a rich talent pool, Kerala has seen increased unemployment among the youth, and this program is an attempt to counter this trend.
The Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP) will be implemented by providing additional skill sets to students along with their regular courses, and IHM has cleared the center audit to conduct our aged care course in schools as a summer program, starting April 2016. IHM will be focusing on students studying at Government and Government Aided Higher Secondary Schools and at the Arts and Science Undergraduate Colleges, and equipping them with specific skills in Aged Care to make them employable.