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“Earn while you learn scheme needs to be strengthened to make vocational education and skill training meaningful.” Comment. UPSC IAS Mains 2021 General Studies (Paper – 2)
‘Earn while you learn’ scheme provides opportunities to the students to earn while they are learning through part-time jobs. It is a great combination of working & learning and is usually called vocational education.
The Ministry of Tourism runs a Scheme titled ‘Earn While You Learn’ with a view to inculcate appropriate tourism travel traits and knowledge amongst trainees to enable them to work as ‘student volunteers’.
Features/Benefits of the scheme:
- Provides opportunity to students to earn some extra pocket money during college days.
- Chance to get work experience and hands-on training while studying.
- College drop-out rate due to financial issues will come down considerably.
- It will prepare the students to take up jobs in future and expose them to the outside world.
Need of the scheme to be strengthened:
- It is expected to facilitate the ease of doing business by providing a steady supply of skilled workforce to the industry and services.
- It will lead to improvement in quality and market relevance of manpower.
- It helps students to recognise and understand their choices and preferences and help them build their career.
- More awareness about this kind of initiatives by the government should be generated. The success of this scheme will help India reap its demographic dividend to its fullest.