SKILL COUNCIL FOR GREEN JOBS

ABOUT US

Overview / Introduction

Skill Council for Green Jobs is one of the most recently launched initiatives of the Government of India aligned to the National Skill Development Mission. It is promoted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The creation of the SCGJ was approved in the 10th meeting of National Skill Qualifications Committee held on 28th September 2015. Established as a not-for-profit, autonomous, industry-led society, the SCGJ was incorporated under the Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860 on 1st October, 2015.

Mission

To identify skilling needs of service users as well as manufacturers/ service providers, within Green Businesses sector, and implement nation-wide, Industry led, collaborative skills development & entrepreneur development initiatives that will enable meet India’s potential for “Green Businesses”.

Chairman’s Message

The last few months especially during the second COVID wave have been challenging for the entire country, however now India’s economy is getting back on track and poised to rebound sharply after two waves of the Covid pandemic dampened growth. India is also on track to achieve a USD 5 trillion economy by 2025 and skilling will be key to achieve that. There is a huge opportunity for the entire industry, besides SCGJ across renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy security, EV and smart mobility, battery storage, green construction, and now green hydrogen domain. Perhaps in the post COVID World, skilling techniques and methodology may change but they will continue to have a massive role to play to drive the future economic growth. The various learnings have been made at SCGJ and the council have done a commendable job in adopting digitization by utilizing online and digital tools. SCGJ’s Strategy has been to adopt digitization and enhance their participation in various initiatives in skilling across the green business sector. Despite limitations, a lot of good work has happened in 20-21 and in the first seven month of current FY.

Chief Executive Officer’s Message

Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ) is continuing with its efforts in promoting skills for the Green business industries. At the COP 26 in Glassgow, Hon’ble PM had also focused on tremendous opportunities in skill development for taking forward the fivefold strategy in reducing the impacts of climate change. India will thus take its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030 which translates into a huge opportunity for Additional Job Creation. It is estimated that about 2 crore additional jobs will be created by 2030 due to these interventions apart from waste (which is engaging about 3% of our population). The workforce employed in the Indian RE sector grew nearly five-fold in the past five years, rising from nearly 19,800 workers in FY14 to nearly 99,900 workers in FY19. The largest renewable energy employment growth occurred in FY18 with over 30,000 new workers added in utility-scale ground mounted solar, rooftop solar, and wind energy. Rooftop solar and other decentralized renewable energy technologies continue to employ far more workers than utility-scale solar and wind energy. Scaling mini-grid deployment can help improve rural livelihoods, create jobs, and reduce income and energy poverty. Solar mini-grids offer a tremendous opportunity for job creation, especially if paired with skill development, connection to markets, and affordable and longer tenure financing. In the effort of promoting skill development in green businesses, SCGJ has developed 7 New National Qualification on Small Hydro Power plant operation and six on wind power operation, construction and resource assessment. I am happy to announce that the National programme will be launched soon on these new qualifications. During the last quarter the SCGJ focus was to became an Awarding body of NCVET. It is proposed to add about 75 industries as members every year taking total number to 1250 by the year 2030. A placement target of 5 lakh candidates, conduct 10 additional skill gap studies, create repository of 100 qualifications, built capacity of training with 750 Training Partners and 50 Assessment agencies by 2030. SCGJ would continue to leverage its linkages with various bilateral and multilateral institutions to design, implement and scale up multiple training /skilling interventions in market mode. Similarly, CSR funding stream will also be leveraged to undertake a range of new activities including desktop studies, pilot projects and virtual and physical trainings across selected job roles. My best wishes to all Stakeholders of SCGJ.

What is Green Jobs?

Green jobs are decent jobs that contribute to preserve or restore the environment, be they in traditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, or in new, emerging green sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Skilling for Green jobs will help

  • Improve energy and raw materials efficiency
  • Limit greenhouse gas emissions
  • Minimize waste and pollution
  • Protect and restore ecosystems
  • Support adaptation to the effects of climate change

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At the enterprise level, green jobs can produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment, for example green buildings or clean transportation. However, these green outputs (products and services) are not always based on green production processes and technologies. Therefore green jobs can also be distinguished by their contribution to more environmentally friendly processes. For example, green jobs can reduce water consumption or improve recycling systems. Yet, green jobs defined through production processes do not necessarily produce environmental goods or services.

As illustrated by the diagram below, a distinction can thus be drawn between employment in green economic sectors from an output perspective and job functions in all sectors from an environmentally friendly process perspective. For the ILO, green jobs are all those jobs that fall in the dashed area:

total-employment

Green jobs are central to sustainable development and respond to the global challenges of environmental protection, economic development and social inclusion. By engaging governments, workers and employers as active agents of change, the ILO promotes the greening of enterprises, workplace practices and the labor market as a whole. These efforts create decent employment opportunities, enhance resourcee efficiency and build low-carbon sustainable societies.

  • At least half of the global workforce – the equivalent of1.5 billion people – is affected by the transition to a greener economy.” ILO (2012)
  • The transformation to a greener and low-carbon economy could generate up to 60 million additional jobs across economic sectors. ILO (2012)
  • “In the EU, 14.6 million direct and indirect jobs exist in the protection of biodiversity and rehabilitation of natural resources and forests.ILO (2012)
  • Experiences from Brazil and other countries show that the formalization of some 15-20 million informal waste pickers and their integration into modern recycling systems could have significant economic, social and environmental benefits. ILO (2012)

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Formation / Inception of SCGJ

The Government of India has announced the National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015. It envisages a major role of private sector as shared responsibility for skill development in the country. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has been creating Skill Councils in various domains.

The initial funding for the Sector Skill Council is by the government through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) with 10% contribution from the industry. It becomes a self-sustainable body over a period of 3-5 years.[read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]

On 28th May, 2015. More recently, Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ) has been created by MSDE. This Council is promoted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Power and Confederation of Indian Industry.

SCGJ is a registered not for profit society which is being managed by an industry led Governing Council. It would also have sector specific Advisory Board and country wide representation of Industry Members (including MSME’s).[/read]

Key Sectors covered by SCGJ

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SCGJ Work

SCGJ will act as a bridge between the Government of India, State Governments and industry for developing strategy & implementing programmes for Skills Development, correlated to Industry needs but also aligned to best International practices. A national level data base of skilled manpower is proposed to be created which can be directly utilised by the industry.

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What is Occupational Mapping?

Occupation refers to the kind of work performed in a job. The concept of occupation is defined as a “set of jobs whose main tasks and duties are characterized by a high degree of
similarity”. A person may be associated with an occupation through the main job currently held, a second job, a future job or a job previously held.

SCGJ developed job roles mapped with occupation defined in International Standards Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) & National Classification of Occupation (NCO-2015).

SCGJ Organizational Structure

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Brochure of Skill Council for Green Jobs

 

 

 

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