https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/62 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:20:24 GMT 2026-03-07T00:20:24Z https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6496 Title: The dual system of training and its local enactments: A view from ITIs in India Authors: Sethwala, Sadaf; Sengupta, Antara; Thakur, Manish; Maitra, Saikat Abstract: This chapter explores the experiences and aspirations of young student trainees enrolled in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutes in India under the Dual System of Training (DST) programme. By employing the “capacity to aspire” approach, this study reveals how the DST programme has influenced the young student trainees’ capacity to navigate their ambiguous career pathways toward aspirational futures. It also casts light on how the trainees’ navigational capacity steers aspirations beyond its immediate structural constraints enabling them to dream of a “good life” even though the possibility of achieving that remains uncertain. Description: Sadaf Sethwala, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom | Antara Sengupta, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom | Manish Thakur, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India | Saikat Maitra, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Book details: International Transfer of Dual Modes of Vocational Education and Training : National Recontextualization and Local Enactment Edited By Oscar Valiente, Srabani Maitra, Philipp Gonon, Matthias Pilz; Pages: 137-152 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6496 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6484 Title: Towards a Gender Transformative Vision of TVET in India: Student experiences and labour market trajectories in India's contemporary TVET Authors: Maitra, Saikat; Sethwala, Sadaf Abstract: Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is increasingly being recognised by policymakers in India as a tool for employability in a fast-changing labour market. Unfortunately, it is viewed as an inferior stream of education designed for those who are unable to pursue formal academic programmes and one that is primarily suitable for lower-caste youth. In this study, we explore the experiences of young people enrolled in Industrial Training Institutes across two locations in India. We examine the range of outcomes that the Dual System of Training (DST) facilitates, which in turn influence attitudes towards vocational education. While the pandemic highlighted the need for a robust skills formation system, it also revealed how programmes like the DST do not transform relations of exploitation brought on by the neoliberal market. Instead, the vulnerabilities of students in a precarious job market are exacerbated, further contributing to the continuing low status of vocational education in the country. Description: Saikat Maitra, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, India | Sadaf Sethwala, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Book Details: Crafting India's Skill Ecology Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6484 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6482 Title: Crafting Skills: Reproducing, recalibrating, and reimagining skill in modern India Authors: Maitra, Saikat; Schwecke, Sebastian Abstract: The separation of the ‘Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship’ (MSDE) from a severely truncated – at least in scope and ambit – ‘Ministry of Labour’ and the subsequent launching of the ‘Skill Mission’ in 2015 marks one of several critical moments in the wider historical narrative of skill development and skill formation in India. Occupational training officially now became regarded as a decisive element necessary to harness the much-celebrated and little-realized demographic dividend in India through greater degrees of market-oriented skilling of a young population. According to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, this new regime of national skill training would not only be responsive to actual industry demands and requirements but also be delivered through a complex arrangement of both private and public institutions that maximized the reach and scope of the ‘Mission’. The current Indian national government’s emphasis on skill training to generate socioeconomic growth, employment and the production of a well-trained youth labour force is, while no doubt ambitious, not as unique or unprecedented as it is made out to be by the gushing contents of the MSDE’s official website. While skill preservation is frequently linked to questions of attrition within internal labour markets, in India – at many levels of the economy – it is more often linked to preserving skills within regionally established economic clusters, partially offsetting the need to counter attrition at the level of the firm. Description: Saikat Maitra, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, India | Sebastian Schwecke, Institute for SME Research in Bonn (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn), Germany Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6482 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6338 Title: International Economic Law Authors: Babu, R Rajesh; Unni, V.K.; Joseph, Reji K.; Shiju Mazhuvanchery, Shiju Mazhuvanchery; Ranjan, Prabhash; Mohan, M P Ram Description: Biosketch: Rajesh Babu, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India, Book Title: Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia edited by Seokwoo Lee. Table of Contents 13.1 International Trade Law 13.2 International Investment Law 13.3 International Nuclear Law 13.4 International Tax Law Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/6338 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z