Skill India Mission

• According to government estimates, more than 1.04 Crore youth have been trained under the Skill India Mission in the year 2015-16 which is 36.8% higher than the previous year’s recorded data.
• In the current arrangement, 60% of the trainings are directly under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship while 40% are across other Central Ministries.
• Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), which was launched on July 15, 2015, alone has witnessed more than 20 lakh people, of which 40% are women candidates, being trained in their choice of skills.

Achievements of Mission:

• The skill training and development ecosystem has seen transformational change through concerted efforts in terms of initiatives such as PMKVY
• New ITIs with private/ industry partnership, Infusion of new ideas and finance through World Bank assistance.
• The number of ITIs in the country has increased from 10,750 in May 2014 to over 13,105 in May 2016 and these will be further scale up to 18000 by September this year.
• More than 1141 new ITIs have been added and 1.73 seats have been increased in the last one year.
• MSDE has also enabled the opening up of 5 new RVTIs for women in skill development,
• Till date 4,82,079 entrepreneur trainings have been done by National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) 83 percent of these have been trained through digitised entrepreneurship Orientation Programs,
• Amendments in Apprenticeship Act for increasing opportunities for the youth, and Bring in a new focus to skill development in the country.

About the National Skill Development Mission:

• The National Skill Development Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet on 01.07.2015, and officially launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 15.07.2015 on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day.
• The Mission has been developed to create convergence across sectors and States in terms of skill training activities.
• Further, to achieve the vision of ‘Skilled India’, the National Skill Development Mission not only consolidate and coordinate skilling efforts, but also expedite decision making across sectors to achieve skilling at scale with speed and standards.
• This mission is implemented through a streamlined institutional mechanism driven by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
• Key institutional mechanisms for achieving the objectives of the Mission have been divided into three tiers, which will consist of a Governing Council for policy guidance at apex level, a Steering Committee and a Mission Directorate (along with an Executive Committee) as the executive arm of the Mission.
• Mission Directorate is supported by three other institutions: National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), and Directorate General of Training (DGT) – all of which will have horizontal linkages with Mission Directorate to facilitate smooth functioning of the national institutional mechanism.
• Seven sub-missions have been proposed initially to act as building blocks for achieving overall objectives of the Mission. They are:(i) Institutional Training, (ii) Infrastructure, (iii) Convergence, (iv) Trainers, (v) Overseas Employment, (vi) Sustainable Livelihoods, (vii) Leveraging Public Infrastructure.

By: Vishal