About Us

• Directorate Of Vocational Education & Training, Mumbai  is committed to provide quality administration and vocational education and training services to educational institutes, Industrial training institutes and NGOs in Maharashtra State to meet the needs of industry , bussiness to service sector and society at large.

This Department Aims at,

• Encouraging institutes for developing human resources to reduce the mismatch between demand and supply of manpower in various sectors like Engineering, Information Technology, Agriculture, Paramedical, Home Science, Trade & Commerce.
• To reduce unemployment among youth by equipping them for suitable industrial, self & wage employment through weldesigned formal & non formal Vocational Education & Training programmes at Various institutes.
• Establishing linkages with industry / Institutes / R & D organizations Pass out students / Apprentices for mutual benefits.
• Arranging quality development programmes for Principals, teachers instructers, staff & students thereby creating a dynamic learning environment.
• Establishing Centres of Execellence at various key institutes in emerging areas like automobile, Production & Manufacturing, Non Conventional energy sources, CNC/CAD/CAM & Information Techonology.
• Establishing seperate website for the office & to link all institutes & controlling offices through Internet to use web conferencing media for meetings of District officers & Principals thereby increasing speed, accuracy & economy in flow of information.
• Fasilitating the alround development of students by conducting various activities like Quiz, Enterprenership programmes, Sports & different competitions.
• Developing various computer softwares for the statandardisation of procedures of stores, Admissions, examinitions, Administration & Apprecnticeship scheme.

• To ensure a steady flow of skilled workers in different trades for the industry.
• To raise the quality & quantity of industrial production by systematic training of workers.
• To reduce unemployment among the educated youth by equipping them for suitable industrial employment.

Present Status of Maharashtra State

• Skill development is key to promote employability & economic growth.

• Only 13% of all university graduates are employable.

• Only 5% of the youth are vocationally trained.

• There is a need to build global skill workforce, as India is the youngest country with almost 54% population below 30 years.

• The demographic surplus of India will be 47 million by year 2020.

• Educated without professional skill constitutes 69% of the total unemployed.

Challenges

• Involving various industries in the state which are under Apprenticeship act – (4,800 Industries) & utilizing their infrastructure facilities.

• Involvement of industries association like Manufacturing Association, Builder Association, Retail Association, Automobile Association, etc. for group training.

• Involving specialized sector like Hospitals/ Hotels/ Retails/ Gems & Jwellery/ Apparel/ Travel & Tourism / Food Processing etc.

• Involvement of Corporate sector.

• Involvement of Secondary School/ Ashram Shala/ NGOs / Master Craftsman.

Involvement of Recognized Educational Institutes like

• Art, science, commerce Colleges (2000 Colleges)
• Engineering & Polytechnic Colleges (861 Colleges)
• Agriculture colleges (10 Colleges)
• Medical colleges (116 Colleges)
• HMCT Colleges (9 Colleges)

Role of State Government

• Implementation of programme in mission mode.
• Bringing all training schemes of all departments under one Umbrella.
• Field study for manpower mapping in all district.
• Designing Competency base curriculum.
• Preparing Training material.
• Facility for Training of trainers.
• Additional infrastructure for training.
• Mechanism for Quality audits to monitor training quality.
• Examination & Certification of trainees. Separate assessing body for each District.
• Mechanism for Follow up of employment.
• Linkages with various Govt./Non Govt. Dept. for Self Employment.
• Popularization & publicity of the scheme.