Lok Sabha Question No. 6225 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-12
Subject: Skill Development in Telecom Sector
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: PARAYAMPARANBIL KUTTAPPAN BIJU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.6225 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12 TH   APRIL, 2017

## SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN TELECOM SECTOR

## 6225. SHRI P.K. BIJU:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  launch  any  programme  to  augment  and accelerate the skill development in the telecom sector;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  targets,  if  any,  fixed  and  achieved  in  this regard; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) Yes Madam, the Government has taken multiple steps to accelerate Skill Development in Telecom Sector.
- (b) The  details  of  steps  taken  by  the  Government  for  Skill  Development  in  Telecom Sector are submitted below :
- i) As  the  first  step,  the  Government  has  got  conducted  the  Skill  Gap  study twice,  first  time  in  Sept'  2014  and  subsequently  in  June'  2016  after  the launch of flagship schemes namely Make In India, Digital India, Swachha Bharat, Smart Cities etc to assess the telecom sector skill requirements till 2022.
- ii) The inputs received from Skill Gap Analysis of Jun' 2016 were deliberated with Telecom Service Providers (TSPs), Telecom Service Associations and other stakeholders and then a detailed Telecom Sector Skill Plan containing the road map to generate Telecom Skilled manpower as per telecom sector skill projections till 2022 has been prepared in Sept' 2016.

As  per  Telecom  Sector  Skill  Plan  of  Sept'  2016,    the      telecom manpower is projected to increase from  40,04,500 to 87,80,000 by 2022 thereby projecting the additional requirement of Skilled Telecom manpower of 47,75,500 .

The  details  of  manpower requirement in various telecom subsectors are contained in the table below:

| Sl no.   | Telecom subsector               | Telecom manpower   | Telecom manpower   | Total additional Requirement   |
|----------|---------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------------------|
| Sl no.   | Telecom subsector               | 2016-2017          | 2021-2022          | Total additional Requirement   |
| 1        | Service Providers               | 8,40,000           | 13,90,000          | 5,50,000                       |
| 2        | Infra Providers                 | 1,40,000           | 5,20,000           | 3,80,000                       |
| 3        | N/W & IT providers              | 5,90,000           | 9,90,000           | 4,00,000                       |
| 4        | Telecom Equipment manufacturers | 5,80,000           | 13,80,000          | 8,00,000                       |
| 5        | Retail & Distribution           | 7,60,000           | 13,90,000          | 6,30,000                       |
| 6        | Mobile Handsets                 | 10,94,500          | 31,10,000          | 20,15,500                      |
|          | Total                           | 40,04,500          | 87,80,000          | 47,75,500                      |

Further,  as  per  the  analysis  of  TSSC  (Telecom  Sector  Skill Council),  a  telecom  setup  has  invariably  20-25%  high  end  skilled  people comprising of engineers, MBAs, CAs, HR experts etc and as per experience such high end skilled people require no specific skill training rather they are given short term 2-4 weeks orientation course on the job by the employer.

The  balance  manpower  comprising  of  75-80%  would  require telecom  skill  trainings.  Keeping  the  optimistic  figure  of  80%,    the  target telecom skilling required till 2021-22 will be to the tune of 38,20,400.

- iii) In  order  to  accelerate  Skill  Development  in  Telecom  Sector  the  Training centers  of  DOT  PSUs  namely  Bharat  Sanchar  Nigam  Limited  (BSNL), Mahanagar  Telephone  Nigam  Limited  (MTNL)  and  ITI  Ltd.  are  being accredited to Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to impart large scale Skill Development Trainings to youths in Telecom Sector.
- iv) Also, Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) will be conducting telecom Skill Development  Trainings  through  Training  Providers  to  generate  required skilled manpower for telecom sector.
- v) In order to generate additional Skilled manpower of 38,20,400 Department of  Telecom has fixed following annual Targets from 2017-18 for its PSUs namely  Bharat  Sanchar  Nigam  Limited  (BSNL),  Mahanagar  Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd  (TCIL) and  ITI ltd. and also for Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) as detailed below :

| Sl no   | Organi zation   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   | 2019-20   | 2020-21   | 2021-22   | Total     |
|---------|-----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1.      | BSNL            | 88,000    | 97,000    | 1,07,000  | 1,20,000  | 1,30,000  | 5,42,000  |
| 2.      | MTNL            | 5,500     | 6,000     | 6,700     | 7,500     | 8,500     | 34,200    |
| 3.      | TCIL            | 18,700    | 21,000    | 23,000    | 25,000    | 27,500    | 1,15,200  |
| 4.      | ITI             | 2,600     | 2,800     | 3,000     | 3,500     | 4,000     | 15,900    |
| 5.      | TSSC            | 4,00,000  | 5,00,000  | 6,50,000  | 7,50,000  | 8,50,000  | 31,50,000 |
|         | Total           | 5,14,800  | 6,26,800  | 7,89,700  | 9,06,000  | 10,20,000 | 38,57,300 |

The  achievement  in  regard  to  skill  development  trainings  including vocational courses on telecom for FY 2016-17 was   1,60,764.

- (c)     NA in lieu of (b) above.

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