RFP for Hiring a Professional Agency for Conducting Skill Gap Study (2025-30) & Developing Skill Plan (2025-30) for Indian Mining Sector

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About the Organization

Skill Council for Mining Sector (SCMS), promoted by FIMI, is registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, and set up by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). SCMS is an apex body to train and meet the requirement of skilled workforce for the mining industries on a sustained and evolving basis with the support of the industry. The core activity of SCMS is to formulate the National Occupational Standard (NOS) for different job roles aligned to National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) notified by Government of India, in December, 2013. Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in its notification dated 17^th March, 2015 has authorized SCMS as a non-statuary certification agency. SCMS conducts training and up-skilling of workers on various job roles in the mining sector, through experts and its accredited training partners. SCMS, is recognized and regulated by NCVET as an ‘Awarding Body’.

SCMS has carried out the occupational mapping across the mining sector. Mining sector comprises of four sub-sector, Exploration, Mining operations (Open cast & underground), Engineering & Support Services and Mineral Beneficiation. Highest Occupational engagement is in excavation, loading, hauling and mechanical services.

About the Proposal

The Ministry of Mines and Skill Council for Mining Sector, jointly intend to develop a new Skill Plan for 2025-30 for the Mining Sector in India, basis the findings of a comprehensive skill gap study that covers all the leading mining organizations, all the mining clusters, top mining districts (in terms of royalty from mining activities) and covering most of the minerals across the nation, including but not limited to major minerals, critical minerals, strategic minerals, minor minerals & atomic minerals.

The study to also cover the National Critical Mineral Mission which is aimed at reinforcing India's Critical Mineral value chain across all stages – from exploration and mining to beneficiation, processing, and recovery from end-of-life products. This mission is designed to advance India's journey towards self-reliance in the raw materials essential for the nation’s economic growth and the transition to a net-zero economy. The mission’s goal is to ensure self-sufficiency in fulfilling the industrial demands for critical minerals.

The key objectives that this study aims to achieve are:

• District-wise assessment of available mining specific skills and the required skills
• To understand skill development ecosystem and the relevance of course curriculum in the current and future industrial scenarios
• To identify government schemes on skill development and their awareness and challenges among the various business entities
• To identify the startup potential and self-employment opportunities
• To assess & identify steps that can be taken to bridge current and future skill gap.
• To provide job role wise skill gap in districts selected under sampling
• To identify the requirement of jobs in emerging roles and areas
• To evaluate need & impact of online training & physical training in skill development

The study work shall include creation of a model framework supported by an IT enabled data collection & analyzing mechanism/ software/ program that requests and records the employment data from pre-identified mining organizations/ stakeholders at pre-defined time intervals in terms of the availability of skilled/ trained manpower (NSQF and non-NSQF, gender diversity), future skilled manpower requirements. The required data from the remaining stakeholders to be collected in the form of an on-ground survey/ questionnaire. Based on the total data/ information gathered during this skill gap study, the Skill Gap Report for 2025-30 and Skill Plan for 2025-30 are to be prepared.

Skill Gap Report shall cover the manpower demand, supply and gap projections for the period 2025-30 with added extrapolation to 2047, identifying the best practices in the mining sector while the Skill Plan shall outline appropriate future strategies & action plans that may be adopted by stakeholders to address –

• Existing & future human resource requirements & related challenges in mining sector
• Create potential employment opportunities in mining sector
• Suggest a roadmap for the Indian mining companies and other government bodies/ departments to follow to train and certify the manpower, along with ways for integration with national framework(s).

The availability of skilled/ trained manpower is imperative to cater to the mineral demands of the nation in upcoming times. Mapping exercise must cover core mining as well as ancillaries associated, and factor in the expected changes/ disruptions expected going forward.

Major Stakeholders of the study (as per Sampling Plan):

• Related Ministries and Government Agencies including regulatory and other subsidiary bodies
• State & District Administrations
• Department of Mining & Geology (of targeted States)
• Academic Institutes, R&D institutes and their students
• Major Mining organizations for all sub-sectors including Urban Mining, Major & Minor minerals including critical, strategic, deep sea bed and atomic minerals, and geographies covering major mining states (including aspirational, LWE affected clusters/districts and geographically challenging areas)
• HEMM and other mining related Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
• Skill Council for Mining Sector and allied SSCs
• Project Implementing Agencies/ Training Providers in the Mining Sector
• Skill Development Trainers & Assessors
• Any other agency/institute/ body/ organization as per the need of the study

Scope of Work

The study would cover all sub-sectors of mining, excluding Oil & Gas. For the purpose of the study, it should include the followings:

• Prospecting & Exploration (Including Comparative Rankings- Global, National, States and targeted districts)
• Reserve Estimation (Including Comparative Rankings- Global, National, States and targeted districts)
• Mineral Extraction (Fuel, Metallic/Non-metallic, Critical/Strategic, Atomic, Minor & Deep Sea Minerals) Associated Services (Environment, Health & Safety, Engineering and Allied services)
• Processing & Beneficiation (Primary ore processing) and Coal washeries
• Ancillary activities supporting mining (transportation, storage, etc.)
• Urban Mining
• Inputs from major stakeholders like Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Labour and Employment, major Govt. departments like IBM, GSI, DGMS, DMGs, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), major industries and industry associations in coal, metal, cement, minor minerals, major educational and research institutes like CSIR-CIMFR, IIT-ISM Dhanbad, IIT-Kharagpur, NIRM, etc.
• Alignments/Reference with various National Missions/Policies related to mining and missions/policies that may affect employment in mining (like National Green Hydrogen Mission, India Semi-Conductor Mission, AI Mission, Solar Mission, etc).

The scope of work for the study shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

• Socio-economic Profile
• Sectoral Focus
• Opinion of Stakeholders
• Manpower Supply-Demand Gap
• Skill Set Mapping
• Migration Issues
• Candidate aspiration mapping

The scope of work should cover the other following project components also:

• Creation of a model framework supported by an IT enabled mechanism
• Current Industry Overview and Labour Market Trends
• Situational Analysis for critical success factors in bridging the skill gap
• Study the potential of employment and skilling needs of ancillary sectors that can be directly attributed to mines/ related activities’’
• Study key Major & Minor Minerals including Critical/Strategic Minerals, Atomic Minerals, Deep Sea Minerals and Urban Mining scenario in India
• Ascertain Human Resource and skill requirement forecast over a period of 2025-30
• Developing ‘Skill Plan (2025-30)’, with Strategic roadmap, action plans, and recommendations

How to Apply

The last date for submission/ receipt of RFP: 10th March 2025 by 3 P.M  I.S.T

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