Skill India Mission

The Skill India Mission is a government scheme that is launched in 2015. It is a kind of umbrella scheme under which there are many small skilling schemes were prevalent. The main objective of launching this scheme is to empower the youth of the country with adequate skill sets that boost their chances of getting employment in various sectors of the economy. It also helps the individual in improving its productivity.

The main Skill India Objectives

  • The main objective of the Skill India Mission is to offer market-relevant skills training to almost 40 Crore young people in the country by the year 2022.
  • Enrolling in Skill India Mission will open up job opportunities and creating a space for the talent development of our Indian youth.
  • Skill India Mission helps in developing those sectors which are looking for skill development for the past several years to recognize the new areas or sectors for skill development.

This scheme helps in bridging the gap between skills required by the industry and skills people having for the generation of employment.

  • Reducing poverty in the country
  • Increasing the competitiveness of Indian Businesses
  • By enrolling in Skill India Mission, you can ensure that skill training is relevant and are of quality.
  • Helping the Indian citizens to rule the manpower and resources in the market.
  • Diversification of existing skill development programs to meet today’s challenges.
  • Building actual competencies rather than giving people mere qualifications.
  • Building up opportunities for lifelong learning for developing skills.
  • Augmenting better and active engagement of social partners and building a strong public-private partnership in skill development.
  • Mobilizing adequate investments for financing skills development sustainability.

Features of Skill India Mission

  • The most important feature is the creation of a new hallmark’ rural India scheme’
  • The focus is on improving the employability level of the youth to increase their employment and entrepreneurship skills.
  • The mission offers support, training, and guidance for all traditional types of employment like cobblers, weavers, welders, masons, blacksmiths, nurses, etc.
  • Skill India Mission emphasis on sectors like construction, transportation, real estate, gems industry, textiles, banking, designing, tourism, and other sectors, where skills are not adequate level.
  • The best part about enrolling in Skill India Mission is of international standards so that the youth of India’s demand remains high even abroad.

Sub-schemes that are part of Skill India Mission

There are various schemes under Skill India. Here is the list of the major ones:

  • The National Skill Development Mission
  • The National Skill development mission was launched for creating convergence across various sectors and different states with concern to activities related to skill training. The mission is not only coordinating skill efforts but would also facilitate decision-making across the sectors to achieve quality skilling on a large scale.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)

The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana aims to encourage the young population of the country is to take up training that is industry-relevant and builds them in skill development. The scheme consists of specialized components such as the National Skills Qualification Framework(NSQF), Recognition of Prior Learning(RPL), Kaushal, and Rozgar Yojana meals among others.

Indian Skill Development Services

The Indian Skill Development services is a new government service that has been created for the training directorate of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. It is a group ‘A’ service and is a big push towards the government’s skilling initiatives by drastically enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of various schemes in the domain.

National policy for skill development and Entrepreneurship 2015

It aims to offer an umbrella framework regarding all skilling activities that are carried out within India. It helps the individual to get align with common standards and connect skilling with demand centers. In addition to laying down the objectives and expected outcomes, the policy also does the identification of the overall institutional framework which will act as a means to achieve the expected results.

List of Skill India Sources

  • Management and development programs: It gives training regarding modern office practice, analysis of financial statements,  and marketing training for managers, etc.
  • Training of trainer: Accreditation program for, technology infusion, EM trainers, etc.
  • Entrepreneurship development programs:  It consists of Women EDP, women empowerment, CRR scheme, etc.
  • Skill development programs: Dairy-based ESDP, carpentry, electroplating, fashion designing, etc.
  • Other skills:  It includes promotion of micro-enterprises, cluster development, lending strategies for MSMEs, etc.