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(THE GIST OF PIB) Jobs at Your Doorstep Report

(NOVEMBER-2024)

Recently, the Union Minister for Education along with the Minister of Labour and Employment and Youth Affairs launched a World Bank’s report titled Jobs at Your Doorstep: A Jobs Diagnostics for Young People in Six States, at an event in New Delhi.

This report serves as both a diagnostic and roadmap to providing strategic linkages and convergence between education and the jobs agenda of India.
It goes deep into the job landscape of six states: Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Rajasthan, and identifies key priority sectors and roles that offer the highest employment potential for young people graduating from secondary school.
The report is a skills gap analysis that attempts to align trades offered in schools industry-specific needs of the districts where the schools are present.
It underscores the significant benefits of embedding skill-based education from Classes 9-12 to prepare students for diverse career paths relying on a bottom-up approach.
The study was initiated to reimagine the skill education offering through in-depth primary as well as secondary research in six STARS states.

It became effective since 2021 for a period of five years up to FY: 2024-25.
STARS project would be implemented under Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education with the financial support of World Bank.
It is being implemented in six identified States Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. These states will be supported for various interventions for improving the quality of education.
It is carved out of Samagra Shiksha, with a focus on those elements of the scheme that will most directly support school education enhancement.