Lok Sabha Question No. 1628 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-26
Subject: Skilling Unemployed Women
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: HARISHCHANDRA DEORAM CHAVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1628 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2017

## SKILLING UNEMPLOYED WOMEN QUESTION

## †1628. SHRI HARISHCHANDRA CHAVAN:

## Will  the  Minister  of  SKILL  DEVELOPMENT  AND  ENTREPRENEURSHIP  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  develop  the  local  individual  talent  and  to promote the entrepreneurship skill among unemployed women in districts of Maharashtra including Nasik so that they can avail benefits from the small and medium enterprises promotion schemes effectively; and
- (b) if so, the details of the efforts in this direction and the outcome thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY)

(a) to (b)     Ministry  of  Skill  Development  &  Entrepreneurship  (MSDE)  has  launched  its flagship  scheme  Pradhan  Mantri  Yuva  Udyamita  Vikas  Abhiyaan  (PM-YUVA)  on  9th November, 2016 to impart entrepreneurship education and training throughout the country. The scheme spans over five years (2016-17 to 2020-21) with a project cost of Rs. 450 crore and will provide entrepreneurship education and training to over 14.5 lakh students. Under this scheme, over all at least 30% students enrolled would be women.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY - 2016-20) is the flagship scheme of  MSDE.  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.  The  scheme  has  placed  special  importance  to  placements  which  includes entrepreneurship. As on date in district of Nashik, a total of six training providers are training students  under  PMKVY  and  have  trained  over  520  women  candidates  under  various  job roles. Under PMKVY, special focus  and provisions has been made for encouraging women participation.    In  order  to  enable  the  newly  skilled  women  to  settle  into  their  new jobs/vocations, post placement support would be provided at the rate of Rs. 1500 per month for two months for within domicile and three months  for outside the domicile placement. On successful  completion  and  certification  of  non-residential  skill  training  programmes,  all women candidates will be provided an allowance for expenses incurred in travelling to and from the Training Centre. Number of women trained under short term training under PMKVY in Maharashtra State is given at Annexure.

Likewise,  Ministry  of  Micro,  Small  &  Medium  Enterprises  is  also  implementing  a scheme namely 'Entrepreneurship Development Programes Scheme (EDPs Scheme)'.  This is a Central Sector, Pan India scheme which is uniformly implemented in all the States and Union Territories including the State of Maharashtra.  Under 'EDPs Schemes' four types of activities  i.e.  Entrepreneurship  Development  programmes  (EDP),  Entrepreneurship  Skill Development  programme  (ESDP),  Management  Development  Programmes  (MDP)  and Industrial  Motivational  Campaigns  (IMC)  are  organized  through  30  MSME-Development institutes  (MSME-DIs)  and  28  branch  MSME-DIs  situated  all  over  the  country.  Women participants  are  provided  50%  concession  in  fee.  Out  of  the  total  EDP  and  ESDP programmes, 20% are stipendiary programmes for weaker section (SC/ST/Women and PH) in which no fee is charged and a stipend of Rs125/- per week per candidate is also provided.

Annexure As on 13.07.2017

| Sl. No.     | District    |   Enrolled |   Trained |   Placed |
|-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|----------|
| 1           | Ahmednagar  |        374 |         0 |        0 |
| 2           | Akola       |        182 |       164 |        8 |
| 3           | Amravati    |        953 |       340 |        0 |
| 4           | Aurangabad  |        240 |       240 |        0 |
| 5           | Beed        |        191 |       136 |        0 |
| 6           | Buldhana    |        764 |       644 |       54 |
| 7           | Dhule       |        120 |         0 |        0 |
| 8           | Gondia      |        821 |       536 |      373 |
| 9           | Jalgaon     |        279 |       259 |        0 |
| 10          | Kolhapur    |        574 |       483 |       64 |
| 11          | Latur       |        626 |       520 |       88 |
| 12          | Mumbai      |       1492 |      1233 |       23 |
| 13          | Nagpur      |       1776 |      1338 |      334 |
| 14          | Nanded      |        164 |       164 |       69 |
| 15          | Nashik      |        542 |       427 |        0 |
| 16          | Osmanabad   |        819 |       819 |        1 |
| 17          | Palghar     |         92 |        73 |       10 |
| 18          | Pune        |       3543 |      1887 |      355 |
| 19          | Sangli      |        204 |       140 |        3 |
| 20          | Sindhudurg  |          3 |         3 |        0 |
| 21          | Solapur     |        120 |        65 |        0 |
| 22          | Thane       |         92 |        13 |        1 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total |      13971 |      9484 |     1383 |

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