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Skill Programme

Gunjan Gaur Guru Nanak Girls College, Yamunanagar

Abstract: After ‘’ and ‘’, dividend (DD) of India by training and employing the NaMo Government is has launched new millions of youth. The DD of India coincides with programme that is Skill India. This new demographic deficit of developed nations who need programme, ‘Skill India’, is supposed to be a multi- quality working force in future-An opportunity not skill programme. Like all other programmes, ‘Skill to be missed. The launch of the Skill India’ is also a dream project of India Campaign is an important milestone towards and the work to launch this programme has achieving the objective of skilling with Speed, already been initiated. Skills and knowledge are Scale and Standards across the country. the driving forces of economic growth and social development for any country. The first attempt to Objectives of ‘Skill India’ promote skill development in the country was made with the National Policy on Skill Development The main goal is to create opportunities, space and 2009. Consequently, over the last five years, India scope for the development of the talents of the has made some progress towards developing the Indian youth and to develop more of those sectors assets to drive skills training at scale. The which have already been put under skill establishment of the National Skills Development development for the last so many years and also to Corporation (NSDC) is to promote private sector identify new sectors for skill development. The participation, Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) that is new programme aims at providing training and intended to facilitate the much needed participation skill development to 500 million youth of our and ownership of the industry to ensure needs- country by 2020, covering each and every village. based training programmes, the National Skills Various schemes are also proposed to achieve this Development Agency (NSDA) that is working with objective. the State governments to revitalize skilling efforts in the State, etc. The Skill Development Programme is to create opportunities, space and scope for the Features of ‘Skill India’ development of the talents of the Indian youth and to develop more of those sectors which have  The emphasis is to skill the youths in such a already been put under skill development for the way so that they get employment and also last so many years and also to identify new sectors improve entrepreneurship. for skill development.  Provides training, support and guidance for all occupations that were of traditional type Introduction like carpenters, cobblers, welders, blacksmiths, masons, nurses, tailors, weavers etc. An ability and capacity acquired through  More emphasis will be given on new areas deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to like real estate, construction, transportation, smoothly and adaptively carryout complex textile, gem industry, jewellery designing, activities or job functions is called Skill. There are banking, tourism and various other sectors, many types of skill like cognitive skills, technical where skill development is inadequate or nil. skills and interpersonal skills etc. People need a  The training programmes would be on the broad range of skills in order to contribute to a lines of international level so that the youths modern economy. Skill India is an initiative of the of our country can not only meet the Government of India. It was launched by Prime domestic demands but also of other Minister Narendra Modi on 16 July 2015 with an countries like the US, Japan, China, aim to train over 40 crore people in India in Germany, Russia and those in the West different skills by 2022. It includes National Skill Asia. Development Mission, National Policy for Skill  Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Pradhan Another remarkable feature of the ‘Skill create a Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme India’ programme would be to and the Skill Loan scheme etc. Skill India Mission hallmark called ‘Rural India Skill’, so as to standardize and certify the training process. acts as a vehicle to harness the demographic

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 Tailor-made, need-based programmes would training in soft skills to lead a proper and decent be initiated for specific age groups which life. Skill development would reach the rural and can be like language and communication remote areas also. Corporate educational skills, life and positive thinking skills, institutions, non-government organizations, personality development skills, management Government, academic institutions, and society skills, behavioural skills, including job and would help in the development of skills of the employability skills. youths so that better results are achieved in the  The course methodology of ‘Skill India’ shortest time possible. would be innovative, which would include games, group discussions, brainstorming More Programmes Launched by PM sessions, practical experiences, case studies etc.

Comparison with previous skill development policies

 It’s not that we do not have any skill development programme already. The Government of India has always considered skill development as a national priority. It is just that since the ministry is new, the approach taken for skill development is also new. Earlier, the emphasis was on traditional jobs. But this time, all kinds of jobs will be given equal emphasis. Earlier, the responsibility was divided among various ministries, but this time, these are being clubbed together. The ministry of skill Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana development and entrepreneurship will be the principal ministry which is going to The government's scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal coordinate with other ministries and Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), will incentivize skill organisations. training by providing financial rewards to  According to NaMo, Skill India won’t be candidates who successfully complete approved just a programme but a movement. Here, skill training programmes. The scheme aims to youth who are jobless, college and school recognize and provide skill to 24 lakh youth who dropouts, along with the educated ones, from lack formal certification, such as workers in vast rural and urban areas, all will be given value unorganized sector. addition. The new ministry will be the certifying agency. Certificates will be issued to those who complete a particular skill or DigiLocker programme and this certificate has to be recognized by all public and private agencies DigiLocker is a service launched by Government and entities, including overseas of India to provide a secure dedicated personal organisations. Skill India is a programme for electronic space for storing the documents of the entire nation. resident Indian citizens. The storage space (maximum 1GB) is linked to the number of the user. The space can be utilized for storing Advantages of Skill India personal documents like University certificates, PAN cards, voter cards, etc., and the URI's of the e- The idea is to raise confidence, improve documents issued by various issuer departments. productivity and give direction through proper skill There is also an associated facility for e-signing development. Skill development will enable the documents. It will also provide secure access to youths to get blue-collar jobs. Development of Govt. issued documents. It is also intended to skills, at an young age, right at the school level, is reduce administrative expenses of Govt. very essential to channelise them for proper job departments and agencies and to make it easy for opportunities. There should be a balanced growth the residents to receive services. To sign up the in all the sectors and all jobs should be given equal user must possess an Aadhaar card and a mobile importance. Every job aspirant would be given number linked to it.

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MUDRA Bank Yojana Jan Dhan Yojana

Population engaged in small businesses always Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana or Prime Minister's requires micro finance to facilitate their business People Money Scheme (PMJDY) is National and day to day business needs. PM Mudra Bank Mission for Financial Inclusion to ensure access to Yojana would help in facilitating micro credit up to financial services, namely Banking Savings & Rs 10 lakh to such small business owners. PM Deposit Accounts, Remittance, Credit, Insurance, Mudra Bank already has a corpus of more than Rs Pension in an affordable manner. This financial 70,000 CR and this amount would help in inclusion campaign was launched by the Prime increasing the overall output and creating newer Minister Narendra Modi on 28 August 2014. He jobs. had announced this scheme on his first Independence Day speech on 15 August 2014. Sukanya Samriddhi Account Conclusion Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana was launched by the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi on 21st January What shape ‘Skill India’ will take and what it will 2015; under the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao do only time can tell. But no doubt it seems to be a Campaign. This scheme was launched to meet the good initiative – providing skills to people, expense of the Girl child’s higher education and especially because India is one of the few countries marriage. It’s a good scheme for parents of girl all across the world whose working age population child to invest in. will be very high, few years down the line, going by its ever-increasing growth of population, as per One Rank One Pension Scheme the World Bank. It is also high time now measures are taken to improve the physical and mental One Rank One Pension (OROP), or "same pension, development of the youths of the country so that none of them remains unemployed and the for same rank, for same length of service, gets irrespective of the date of retirement" is a country’s unemployment problem also reduced. It is time to open up avenues by which the longstanding demand of the Armed Forces and youth accepts responsibility and no one remains veterans. The demand for pay-pension equity, which underlies the OROP concept, was motivated idle because an idle youth is a burden to the by the exparte decision by Indira Gandhi led Indian economy. The economy should concentrate on job creation and social security schemes. With this new National Congress (INC). approach towards skill development, India can

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