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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation

provide clarity and coherence on how skill development efforts across the country can be aligned within the
existing institutional arrangements. This policy will link skills development to improved employability and
productivity.

Actors involved in the process
The project is being implemented by engaging various stakeholders. The Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship has engaged in strategic partnerships with several Central Ministries/Departments, State
Governments, industry and some global players to collaborate towards skills initiatives, in order to leverage the
experience of the stakeholders.
At the International level, the collaborations include:
1. UK India Education & Research Initiative
2. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on behalf of the Government and the Devolved
Administrations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
3. UKCES (UK Commission on Employment and Skills)
4. Federal Ministry for Education and Research of Federal Republic of Germany
5. IMOVE (International marketing of Vocational Education under BiBB), Germany
6. MHRSS, China
7. CNCP (Commission Nationale de la Certification Professionnelle- CNCP), France
8. European Commission
9. Ministry of Education, Singapore

10. Associate of Canadian Community Colleges, Canada
11. US-India Business Council (USIBC)
12. Australian Council for Private Education & Training (ACPET)
Enablers in the process

o Leadership
The Prime Minister of India is personally monitoring the progress of the project.
o Governance (within the city and across levels of government)
All the central ministries, state governments and local governments at the city level are fully committed
to this programme.
o Financial (e.g. PPP, risk management)
Some of these projects are running in the PPP mode, wherein the private sector entities impart the
training and also ensure that a bulk of the trained personnel are employed, and the government
compensates them for the skills imparted, with incentives.

o Organizational (partnership; private involvement; citizen involvement; project management)
It involves partnership at all levels, local governments, state governments, central governments and
educational and skilling institutions at the national and international level.

o Communication (internal and external, branding)
The feedback by various stakeholders ensures that demand and supply requirements are balanced.
Resilience of the solution
The programmes are based on demand and supply requirements. Based on feedback from the stakeholders, the
content can be altered. Besides this, the numbers can be scaled up or down, the location challenges also can be
overcome by leveraging technology. Hence the solution is resilient.

2.3 Results

The expected direct and indirect (expected) results of the project are:

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