The major issue faced in industries and academics in employability and skill. The colleges provide various lectures, workshops, seminars, conference, etc and still the industries are lacking skilled employees. The most critical dimension related to employability is recognition of skill and value accorded to it by the industry. The industries often face the situation of lack of skilled workforce both in quality and quantity which has created the company to have their model sources and developed requires skills. This is mainly because the skills acquired by the students are not meeting the requirements of the company. It was generally found that although skill development is included as a part of the curriculum, industry found it difficult as they were not properly supplied.

The study is done to find out the student’s perception towards the requirement of skill development programmes such as tutorship, paper presentation, workshops, internship, etc in academics and its importance in industries employment.

The objective of the study is:

• To study the current skill development component in higher education.
• To study the students’ perception towards the skill development components in higher education and its importance.

Therefore the research was conducted to study the aspiration of youth and importance of developing relevant skills and capabilities. It is based on both primary data and secondary data.

KEYWORDS: skill development, higher education, employment, skill gaps.