Sports Sector Skill Council

The purpose of setting up Sports Skill council is to aggregate the efforts of the Sports sector for employable workforce development and Institutional Capacity Building of the existing training providers.
Sports, Physical Education, Fitness and Leisure Skill Council (SPEFL-SC) will complement the existing education system for the Sports and Physical Education in meeting the entire value chain’s requirements of appropriately trained manpower in quantity and quality across all levels on a sustained and evolving basis.

• Develop a skills repository for the Sports Sector:
  • a) Conduct comprehensive mapping/s for the Sports sector to identify, enlist and address the skills gaps in the sector especially for the grassroots sports promotion which will supply medal prospects for the future.
  • b) Develop a well structured sector specific Labour Market Information System (LMIS) which supports the skills training planning and execution.
  • c) Continuously develop and upgrade the competency frameworks of each in accordance with industry needs and global best practices.
• To build an organization that can develop
  • a) Standards, evaluation criterion and accreditation systems for providing multiple and varied technical skills in the sports sector including employability skills, to both men and women, as well as challenged persons with regular and direct inputs from industry.
  • b) Create opportunities for Training of Trainers in both the content and pedagogy for imparting the skills trainings in close coordination with employers
• Quality Assurance
  • a) Develop and promote a standardized, output oriented and quality assured affiliation and accreditation process.
  • b) Focus on the improvisation of the training delivery value chain, i.e training process, training of trainers, curriculum design, industry endorsement for certification etc.
  • c) Partner with training providers and guide them into becoming centre’s of excellence and innovation by utilizing the standardization in training, evaluation and certification.
• Integration of Technology in Training
  • a) To create a sustainable and technologically advanced platform for collection, catalogue and exchange of industry data, workforce data, welfare data and career related data across the whole industry segment called the “labour market information system (LMIS)”.
  • b) To provide effective real-time connects between the job providers and job seekers through the LMIS and industry interfaces.