Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) implemented by National Skill Development Corporation. The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is a skill
development initiative scheme of the Government of India for recognition and
standardisation of skills.
The aim of the pmkvy 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.
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 has been laid down for
the scheme. 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.
An outlay of ₹120 billion has been approved by the cabinet for this
project. The scheme has a target to train 1 crore Indian youth from 2016-20. As
of 18 July 2016, 17.93 lakh candidates were trained out of 18 lakh who enrolled
for the scheme.
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