54th ENGINEERS’ DAY - 2021
Theme:
Engineers for Skill Development & Employment in combating COVID
September 15 is celebrated every year in the country since the year 1967 as “Engineers’ Day” to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Sir Visvesvaraya, an eminent Indian engineer and statesman was born in a remote village of Karnataka, the State that is incidentally now the Hi-tech State of the country. Due to his outstanding contribution to the society, Government of India conferred “Bharat Ratna” on this legend in the year 1955. He
was also called the precursor of economic planning in India. His learned
discourse on Economic Planning in India, Planned Economy for India and
Reconstructing India, was the first available document on the planning
effort of the country and it is still held as the parent source matter for
economic planners. A theme of national importance is chosen every year
by the Council of the Institution and deliberated at its various State/Local
Centres to educate the engineering fraternity in general and the society in
particular. This year the 54th Engineers’ Day will be celebrated all over the
country on the theme “Engineers for Skill Development & Employment in
combating COVID.
The heralding of a new decade in 2020 was marred with plummeting
of the global economy pushing millions into penury as the COVID 19
pandemic took centre stage. Reeling under an economic downturn, many
industries have adopted conservative approaches like hiring freezes, paycuts and layoffs to remain afloat while others were forced to shut down.
The shutting of commercial establishments due to the second wave of
Covid-19 has rendered several people jobless leaving them financially
vulnerable.
As we move along, the biggest challenge at hand will be getting back on
track and accept the new normal. Under the new normal, the jobs, which
are heavily dependent on migratory workforce and involve work spaces
with higher levels of physical
proximity, are likely to see greater
transformation and would require
skilling and re-employing our
workforce.
We, as professional engineers,
need to think of technical
interventions to design and
implement sound labour market
information systems, including
accurate market assessment and
need anticipation, and putting
in place processes for skills
recognition to prevent attrition,
poor labour market integration and
deterioration of working conditions
for all workers.
There is a dire need to scale up Skill Development Ecosystem while
strengthening our cloud based infrastructure. Access to skills recognition
processes, especially for low- and medium-skilled migrant workers, will
be crucial and would assist us in formulating policy recommendations
for improvement of the relevant legislative and operational mechanisms.
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to come
up with a well-crafted strategy to deal with this crisis. As uncertainty
persists, it is imperative that our workforce is empowered with the right
skills through timely and relevant skilling, upskilling and reskilling efforts.
This will make our people more agile and resilient, and able to cope with
the challenges posed by the current pandemic and what lies beyond.
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