The government plans to set up 100 community colleges during the current academic session to impart vocational training. Addressing a global skills summit in New Delhi today, Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal said, of these colleges, Canada will partner in setting up of 10 colleges. He said, the government has recently launched a vocational educational programme in around 40 schools in Haryana and it would be done all over the country in the coming months.

Expressing concern over the quality of skill development training, adviser to the Prime Minister on skill development, S Ramadorai, emphasised on bringing about a dramatic change in the programme. He said, the challenges are the quality of inputs that go into training, infrastructure, training methodologies and acute shortage of faculty in vocational education.

Earlier, industry body FICCI and Association of Canadian Community Colleges signed an MoU to collaborate in skill development.

The MOU will enable meaningful partnership arrangements in capacity-building to evolve between Canadian colleges, institutes and polytechnics and Indian community colleges.