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There has been a tremendous focus on vocational education in the five year plans. The Twelfth Five Year Plan has specially laid its emphasis on skill based education in its Approach paper.It is very much clear that for the growing economy like India we need skilled and trained manpower. Our formal education system cannot provide desired number of skilled workers. In such situation alternative open and distance learning model has the tremendous scope to tackle such problems. ODL effective vocational education and training system can provide the quality learning outcomes at teaching institution. Especially in developing countries where there is a need of providing training to large number of workers with limited recourses, in such a situation ODL system could play important and viable role in improving overall skills of workers. This situation is rampant in Assam also.In this paper we have studied the growth of ODL system in Assam and the status of skill based vocational education and training programmes in Assam. Such ODL based model of vocational education and training programme has great importance and relevance in a state likeAssam where there is an urgent need of providing training to a large number of untrained work force at different levels for improving their skills and enable them to be part of the productive force in fast growing economy.