Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
The Cabinet has cleared the decks for a Rs. 12,000-crore plan to
train 60 lakh youths and certify 40 lakh informally skilled workers over the
next four years with a revamped version of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana (PMKVY), which includes a mechanism to revive the traditional
Guru-Shishya approach to train youth with the help of local craftsmen and trade
practitioners.
Details:
- As per the approved plan, training centres will be categorised on the basis of their infrastructure and past performance and third party agencies will be deployed to validate their training efforts and placement records.
- Members of Parliament will also be roped in to mobilise youth for training, monitor the scheme in their constituencies and post-training placement of trainees.
- For youths from the Kashmir Valley, the Leh region, the north-eastern States and Left-wing extremism-affected districts, residential programmes will be promoted.
- Training partners under the scheme will be required to ensure valid Aadhaar numbers of trainees at the time of enrolment and subsequently track attendance through students’ biometrics.
PMKVY:
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship outcome-based
skill training scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
- The objective of this skill certification and reward scheme is to enable and mobilize a large number of Indian youth to take up outcome based skill training and become employable and earn their livelihood.
- Under the scheme, monetary reward would be provided to trainees who are successfully trained, assessed and certified in skill courses run by affiliated training providers.
