Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana | |
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Country | India |
Ministry | Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
Launched | 16 July 2015 |
Website |
skillindia |
Status: Active |
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)[1][2] is a skill development initiative scheme of the Government of India for recognition and standardisation of skills.
Training programmes
The aim of the scheme is to encourage aptitude towards employable skills and to increase working efficiency of probable and existing daily wage earners, by giving monetary awards and rewards and by providing quality training to them. Average award amount per person has been kept as ₹8,000 (US$120). Those wage earners already possessing a standard level of skill will be given recognition as per scheme and average award amount for them is ₹2000 to ₹2500. In the initial year, a target to distribute ₹15 billion (US$220 million) has been laid down for the scheme.great thing done by indian government. Training programmes have been worked out on the basis of National Occupational Standards (NOS) and qualification packs specifically developed in various sectors of skills. For this qualification plans and quality plans have been developed by various Sector Skill Councils (SSC) created with participation of Industries. National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has been made coordinating and driving agency for the same.[3]
Finances
An outlay of ₹120 billion (US$1.8 billion) has been approved by the cabinet for this project.[4]
Target
The scheme has a target to train 1 crore Indian youth from 2016-20.[4]
Performance
As of 18 July 2016, 17.93 lakh candidates were trained out of 18 lakh who enrolled for the scheme.[3]
References
- ↑ "Scheme Document of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana" (PDF). Pmkvyofficial.org.
- ↑ "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)". Pmkvyofficial.org. 2015-12-04.
- 1 2 "17.93 lakh candidates trained under PMKVY as on July 18", Business Standard, 21 July 2016
- 1 2 "PM Modi-led Cabinet approves key decisions – from skilling 1 crore youth to NBCC disinvestment", The Financial Express, 13 July 2016
- ↑ Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)". http://www.muskanforall.com/. 2016-10-06.
External links
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