Skill Development in Green Jobs:

Background of the Intervention:

The Sun has been worshiped as a life-giver to our planet since ancient times. The industrial ages gave us the understanding of sunlight as an energy source. India is endowed with vast solar energy potential. About 5,000 trillion kWh per year energy is incident over India’s land area with most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per sq. m per day. Solar photovoltaics power can effectively be harnessed providing huge scalability in India.

Solar also provides the ability to generate power on a distributed basis and enables rapid capacity addition with short lead times. Off-grid decentralized and low-temperature applications will be advantageous from a rural electrification perspective and meeting other energy needs for power and heating and cooling in both rural and urban areas. From an energy security perspective, solar is the most secure of all sources, since it is abundantly available. Theoretically, a small fraction of the total incident solar energy (if captured effectively) can meet the entire country’s power requirements.

There has been a visible impact of solar energy in the Indian energy scenario during the last few years. Solar energy based decentralized and distributed applications have benefited millions of people in Indian villages by meeting their cooking, lighting and other energy needs in an environment friendly manner. The social and economic benefits include the following:

• reduction in drudgery among rural women and girls engaged in the collection of fuel wood from long distances and cooking in smoky kitchens,
• minimization of the risks of contracting lung and eye ailments,
• employment generation at village level, and ultimately,
• the improvement in the standard of living and creation of opportunity for economic activities at village

Further, solar energy sector in India has emerged as a significant player in the grid connected power generation capacity over the years. It supports the government agenda of sustainable growth, while, emerging as an integral part of the solution to meet the nation’s energy needs and an essential player for energy security.

Proposed Intervention:

The intervention will target to deliver Short-term training (STT) to the youth of Rajasthan. The training will target to provide vocational skill training to the unemployed youth, drop-outs and college students as the target beneficiaries.

Short-term training (STT) focuses on fresh skilling in sector of Green Jobs for those who have never worked in the sector. STT training will offer them opportunity to get skilled in the proposed sector in order to get gainful employment & to be entrepreneurial.

Such training programs will be offered through Instructor-led-Training (ILT) model that will have an amalgamation of Theoretical & Practical sessions. The beneficiaries will be provided hands on training practical exposure with the help of lab equipment required as per the proposed job role for training.

Curriculum: The curriculum will be developed as per the QP NOS & Model Curriculum laid down by the Green Jobs Sector Skill Council. The prescribed curriculum of the following job roles will be referred to:

• Solar PV Installer (Suryamitra)
• Solar PV Installer – Electrical
• Solar PV Installer – Civil
• Solar Proposal Evaluation Specialist
• Rooftop Solar Grid Engineer
• Solar PV Business Development Executive
• Solar PV Structural Design Engineer
• Solar PV Maintenance Technician – Civil (Ground Mount)
• Solar PV Manufacturing Technician
• Solar Lighting Technician

The job roles could be customized basis the consultation with the partner organization. The curriculum will be customized by the in-house content experts of Wakeup Foundation to meet the training requirement of the selected job role.

Duration: Training duration will vary from 200-400 hours and require a full time training engagement for 1-3 months.

Assessment & certification: The assessment of the trainees will be carried out by third party agency appointed by concerned Sector Skill Council. The successful trainees will be awarded with certificates issued by the concerned Sector Skill Council & Wakeup Foundation