- To have 500 million skilled technicians by the year 2020.
- To aid in achieving our targeted growth in our country economy.
- To aid in becoming one-fourth of the world technical workforce.
- To increase the skilled workforce from 5% to about 50%.
- To have the surplus 4.7 crore working age people being converted into technicians.
- To aid in increasing the percentage of literacy and limited literacy of the workforce of 39.7 crore in which almost 67% is either illiterate or suffers from limited literacy level.
- To ensure that the workforce remains on the cutting edge of the technology revolution.
- To obliterate the gender and rural-urban divides in acquiring skill development.
- To utilize the available resources such as educational institutions and centers with public sector participation for skill development.