Increase the flexibility of VET within the mainstream education system

. Aspects of general education (such as numeracy skills, etc.) should be retained in VET as far as possible, to enable students to return to mainstream education at a later stage.ii. Courses in training institutes and polytechnics should have distinct tracks for students of different educational attainments.iii. Entry requirements for certain trades should reflect the requirement of the trade (as appropriate, for instance the entry requirement of Class X could be relaxed to Class VIII in some cases). Students should be permitted multiple entry and exit options in the vocational education stream.iv. Links should be established between the vocational education stream and school education as well as higher education.v. Courses devoted to certain skills training at the primary and secondary level should be introduced in all schools.vi. Vocational training should be made available in various literacy and adult education schemes.vii. Schemes for lifelong skill up-gradation, through short training programmes, should be introduced.viii. There should be a provision for generating a cadre of multi-skilled persons