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Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) plays a significant role in equipping learners with relevant skill sets for specific trades, crafts and careers. The vocational education and training of youth is a challenge in terms of employability and skills acquisition of learners at all levels. With the emerging trends in the employment sector, the skill requirements have varied with geographic location, type of industrial development, economic growth and training facilities available in the region. The present study attempts to review the policy issues and best practice models for an enabling system of synchronising a systemic approach for skills training and vocational and technical education relevant for a nation like India. The research attempts to examine the key intervention characteristics to explain in the present trend of skill development, the variability in the intervention strategies.

The present study will identify the institutional structure in the context of the technical vocational education and skills training systems in India. The review enumerates the best practices adopted with relevant cases for expansion, to make the vocational training accessible and such efforts taken in the direction. The policy relevant to technical education, skills training and the apprenticeship training has varied with time, scope and demand of the sector. The challenge remains in how systems have to respond to meet the overall demands by taking into account the local demands and regional requirements in a global context.

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