Studying the Impact of Government’s Employability Enhancement Drive Finishing School on Tribal Students of College at South Gujarat Region in India

The Student Employability Enhancement Drive aims, at empowering students with various Skill sets in addition to Knowledge that make them industry ready. FS trainers enable students to polish up their Life Skills, Employability Skills, Functional and Spoken English Skills so as to be the notable part of building New India and Stronger and better world. FS aims to prepare Graduating students of Gujarat for better employability, Industry readiness and a prosperous career through appropriate training interventions. The vision goes a step further beyond Gujarat to spread this progressive initiative of FS throughout India. The present study is directed towards knowing impact of the Finishing School on students of tribal college. The ultimate aim is if a student in Gujarat state graduates from college, with their university degree, they should be better prepared to enter the work force then they were prior to entering the higher education.

Education Department, government of Gujarat provides financial assistance to government and grant-in–aid colleges for execution of the training. It is functional through Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG). KCG appoints trainers the list is displayed on the website of KCG and each college is having the liberty to choose trainers from the given list. These trainers are paid from the FS financial assistance grants availed to the colleges by the state government. Training coordinator is appointed by the college from among the existing faculty members of the college. The college coordinator provides free of charge services to the FS project. He/ She coordinates with the trainers and students, equally strives for effective execution and outcome of the program. Training was functional online amidst the Covid crisis. Government of Gujarat launched FS in year 2016-17, the beneficiaries were 40 Government colleges of the Gujarat state, 20 Higher Education and 20 Technical Institutes. Till 2022 around 140 Government colleges of the Gujarat state, 20 Higher Education and 120 Technical Institutes were added. 2021-22 other 87 government and 100 Grant –in- Aid colleges were covered under the FS project. By now more than 253 colleges are executing the project following the module with four components as shown in the Table 1.