What are Green Skills? Highlight its importance for India. Also list out important steps taken by the government in this regard.
Green Skills:
- Green skills are those skills needed to adapt products, services and processes to climate change and the related environmental requirements and regulations.
- These skills are required in areas such as Renewable energy, Wastewater treatment, Climate resilient cities, Green construction, Solid waste management etc.
- To fulfill our commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement.
- To tap the demographic dividend and to create adequate employment opportunities.
- The green skilled youth can contribute progressively towards wildlife conservation and forestry management.
- It is crucial for making a transition from an energy and emission intensive economy to cleaner and greener production and service patterns.
- Our pollution control expertise will get augmented.
- India can effectively meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
- A total of 5 lakh 60 thousand people will be imparted training between 2018-19 and 2020-21.
- The government has identified 35 courses including pollution monitoring (air/water/noise/soil), effluent treatment plant operation, forest management, water budgeting etc. under this programme.