In respect of many categories of trained personnel, we have now adequate arrangements for training. In the case of craftsmen to whom this measure refers primarily, I may just give some recent figure. At the beginning of the eleventh five year plan, we had facilities at the training centers of the ministry of employment and labour for training only about 10,000 persons and now at the end of the second five year plan, the figure has risen to 42,000. We have projected various steps which will enable us to take this figure up to one lakh at the end of 12 plan. Similarly, in the matter of technical education of higher grades also, the requisite facilities are being provided so that we do not anticipate any serious difficultry there. But, obviously, training in institutions is incomplete without a certain period of what is called "implant" instruction which is very {Necessary}. Therefore, it has to be ensured that they get some practical training. Now, we have been experiencing certain difficulties in this direction also. We have found difficulty in placing the youngmen who come out of our institutions in various plants and industrial establishments in order that they may acquire skill by practical training. We have found much greater difficultry regarding the full course of apprenticeship in the case of those who do not go through the institutional training first. The stimulus should not have been confined to the employers only who are enjoying all the benefits during the good days or during the favourable economic situation. The ILO Report says that the wage increase was only 1.7 per cent when the global growth was 4 per cent. It was far less than that in India. What does growth mean? What have people got to do with it? One Cabinet Minister once commented, and he had the courage to say that. The benefit of growth or hype for growth you should do something concrete for millions of our common people and the aam aadmi. They were basking in the glory of India Shining.
