SCALE App

Context

The Minister of Education and Skill Development unveiled the SCALE (Skill Certification Assessment for Leather Employees) app, during a visit to the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) in Chennai.

About the App

• The App is developed by the Leather Sector Skill Council.
• The Leather Sector Skill Council (LSSC) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to meet the demand for skilled workforce in the leather industry in India.
• LSSC was set up in 2012 as one of the key sector skill councils approved by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
• It serves the training and employment needs in the subsectors of finished leather, footwear, apparel, leather goods, accessories.
• The App will provide a one-stop solution for the skilling, learning, assessment, and employment needs of the leather industry.
• It will allow people from all age groups interested in leather craft to access online live streamed classes from the state-of-the-art studio at its office.

About footwears sector

• India is the world’s second-largest producer and consumer of shoes. 
• Around 13% of the world’s leather hides and skins are produced in India, where the leather sector also manages a sizable annual production of about 3 billion square feet of leather. 
• 9% of the footwear produced worldwide is produced in this nation. 
• Throughout India’s whole length and breadth, the sector is home to numerous leather and footwear clusters.

Key objectives of the Leather Sector Skill Council (LSSC)

• To encourage the creation of the skilled labour force needed for the leather and leather goods industry’s long-term growth.
• To ensure the availability of trained and skilled labour across industrial segments and organisational levels, ensure sector capacity growth.

Significance

• This will boost the efforts to strengthen the leather skilling ecosystem.
• It will help inch closer to fulfilling our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of making ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ the ‘Skill Capital of the World’.