 bill no 261 of  2017 the compulsory career guidance bill, 2017 byshri r dhruvanarayana, mp a billto provide for compulsory career counselling and guidance to the students at school level in order to help them chart a proper career path and choose their professions accordingly and for matters connected therewithbe  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the compulsory career guidance act, 2017short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinition2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government ofthat state, and in all other cases, the central government;5(b) "national career service" means the national career service (ncs) project,government of india, ministry of labour and employment;(c) "national review committee" means the national review committeeconstituted under section 7;(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act;10(e) "stream" means a course of study or discipline chosen by a student oncompletion of his secondary or higher secondary grade board exams;(f) "technical education" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the allindia council for technical education act, 1987; and(g) "vocational training" means education and training which helps to trainpeople with skills and knowledge that is required in a specific field, particularly in the labour market15 3 it shall be the responsibility of the appropriate government to provide compulsory career counselling to the students in such manner as may be prescribedcompulsory career counselling to students4 for the purposes of section 3, the appropriate government, with the assistance of the national career service shall—20(a) conduct career counselling and guidance sessions for every student, sixmonths prior to the secondary and higher secondary grade board exams;(b) ensure that career counselling guidance sessions are conducted by trainedand qualified professionals;(c) ensure that students are well informed about the subjects and the combinationthereof in the stream;25appropriate government to conduct compulsory career counselling for all students before secondary or higher secondary grade board exams(d) provide students a complete and comprehensive idea of the scope and jobsthat may be available to them after choosing their respective stream;(e) ensure that students are well informed about the prospects and merits ofvocational training and technical education;30(f) take essential steps for improvement in studies of weak students;(g) grant scholarship to the students belonging to the scheduled castes, thescheduled tribes and other backward classes along with the students, whose parents are living below poverty line to pursue higher education;(h) take available steps computer based training; and35(i) undertake such other functions as it deem necessary for carrying out thepurposes of this actannual report5 (1) the national career service shall submit an annual report to the central government mentioning the number of sessions conducted under section 4 along with the name of the schools and other detail in such manner as may be prescribed40(2) the central government shall cause the report to be laid before both the housesof parliament6 (1) the central government shall, by notification in the official gazette, constitutea national review committee to evaluate the work of the national career service in such manner as may be prescribedconstitution of national review committee(2) the national review committee shall consist of a chairperson and such number of experts in the field of employment and training, retired teachers and principals as members to be appointed by the appropriate government in such manner as may be prescribed5(3) the salary and allowances payable to, and other terms and conditions of serviceof the chairperson and other experts of the national review committee shall be such as may be prescribedcentral government to provide funds107 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by lawin this behalf, provide requisite funds to the state government for carrying out the purpose of this act8 the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other law for the time being in force regulating any of the matters dealt with in this actact not in derogation ofother lawpower to make rules9 (1) the central government may, by notification, make rules to carryout the purpose of this act1520(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or successive sessions aforesaid both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonshistory is said to be the greatest teacher of all time and if we were to learn from our past, then we can clearly see the fact that nations have been built and destroyed by the power of the youth our country is pushing its boundaries to move ahead and stand equally with the developed countries of the globe, but it has been struggling in reaching its goal as it fails to mobilize and use its strength in the right direction, the strength being the youth of this great nationour country is plagued by the epidemic of unemployment and poverty as most of the students are unsure about their career goals and blindly end up following courses that bear no results for them the general enrollment ratio (ger) in india drops in the level of higher education because most of the students drop out and wish to start working these students must be informed about the merits of vocational and technical education, so that they can plan their future and move their career graph forward, instead of being confused and uncertain, as employment is the ultimate goal for most of themeducation fails to be priority as most of the population is concerned with feeding themselves and their families this bill would help such students to identify their talents and would help them to focus their attention on skill development, thereby ensuring that they have a career even if they do not focus on formal higher educationevery child needs to identify their true potential and every youth of this nation deserves to be employed in their relevant sector, and the positive change in that direction has to be made from the school level itselfhence this billnovember 29, 2017 financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides that appropriate government shall provide career counselling to all students clause 4 empowers the appropriate government with the assistance of national career service to conduct the career counselling sessions in the schools clause 5 provides for the constitution of the national review committee for carrying out the purposes of the bill it also provides for grants and scholarships to students belonging to poor economic backgrounds clause 7 provides for central government to provide adequate funds to the state government the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that an annual recurring expenditure to the tune of rupees seven crore would be involved from the consolidated fund of indiaa non-recurring expenditure of about rupees eleven crore is also likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 9 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— a billto provide for compulsory career counselling and guidance to the students at school level in order to help them chart a proper career path and choose their professions accordingly and for matters connected therewith————(shri r dhruvanarayana, mp)gmgipmrnd—2752ls(s3)—20-12-2017