Lok Sabha Question No. 1194 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-19
Subject: Skill India Programme by 2022
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1194 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.09.2020

## SKILL INDIA PROGRAMME BY 2022

## 1194. SHRI T.R. BAALU:

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

- (a) the steps taken by the  Government to tackle the rapidly increasing unemployment rate keeping in view that presently, only 2 per cent of the total workforce in India have undergone skill training;
- (b) whether  it  true  that  three-fourths  of  the  youth  in  the  country  have  never enrolled for a Skill Development Programme and if so, the remedial measures proposed to be taken by the Government to rectify the situation;
- (c) whether the Government propose to skill 40 crores people by 2022 through its 'Skill India' programme and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the steps taken by the Government to enable and mobilise a large number of youth to take up outcome-based skill training to become employable and earn their livelihood; and
- (e) the  measures  taken  by  the  Government  to  build  entrepreneurship  in  the country in this direction?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI R. K. SINGH)

(a) to (d) Government of India is implementing a number of schemes for creating employment opportunities in the country viz. MGNREGA, Pradhan Mantri Employment  Guarantee  Program  (PMEGP),  Pradhan  Mantri  Rojgar  Protsahan Yojana, Make in India, Digital India, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), Aatmanirbhar  Bharat  Abhiyan  etc.  Government  has  also  announced  measures  to strengthen Infrastructure Logistics, Capacity Building, Governance and Administrative Reforms for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Processing Sectors. Further, Government of India has launched PM SVANidhi Scheme to facilitate collateral free working capital loan upto Rs.10,000/- of one- year tenure, to approximately 50 lakh street vendors, to resume their businesses.

As per the Census 2011 and NSSO (68th Round) data, it is estimated that 104 million fresh entrants to the workforce will require skill training by 2022, and 298 million of the existing workforce will require reskilling/upskilling to  access emerging  employment  opportunities.  The  National  Policy  for  Skill  Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015, also projected that 40 crore workforce are required to  be  skilled  by  2022.  The  Government  of  India  launched  a  National  Skill Development  Mission  in  2015  to  skill  at  scale  with  speed  and  standards.  To achieve  this  objective,  number  of  initiatives  have  been  undertaken  for  skilling youth viz Pradhan Mantri Kaushal VikasYojana (PMKVY 2.0) (2016-20) to provide skill training to one crore people under Short Term Training (STT), Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Special Projects (SP). Directorate General of Training (DGT)  under  the  Ministry  is  also  entrusted  with  the  responsibility  of  long  term vocational training in the country through about 15000 Industrial Training Institutes with  a  seating  capacity  of  about  24  lakhs.  Besides  above,  MSDE  is  also implementing Jan Shikshan Sansthan Program to address the skill requirement of the  illiterate  and  neo  literate  and  National  Apprenticeship  Programme  to  make available Industry ready workforce.

As of March 2020, 42.20 lakhs candidates have been trained under the short term training  (STT) programme of PMKVY out of which 17.54 lakhs candidates have been  placed  in  jobs,  while  49.12  lakh  candidates  have  been  oriented  under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) out of which 28.81 lakhs have been certified. Under  National  Skill  Development  Mission,  many  other  Central  Ministries  / Departments besides MSDE  are also implementing various skill training programmes to achieve this objective. The total number of persons trained under Skill India Mission since 2015-16 is around 5.53 crores, with around 3.31 crores being trained under MSDE, and 1.81 crores under other Ministries/ Departments.

(e)  To create an enabling ecosystem  through  entrepreneurship education, training,  advocacy  and  easy  access  to  entrepreneurship  network,  MSDE  is implementing  a  pilot  scheme,  Pradhan  Mantri  YUVA  (PM  YUVA)  Yojana.The scheme  focuses  on  the  students/trainees  and  alumni  coming  out  from  skilling ecosystem {i.e. Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), Polytechnics, Pradhan Mantri Kuashal  Kendras  (PMKKs)  and  Jan  Sikshan  Sansthans  (JSS).  The  scheme  is being implemented in 10 States and 2 Union Territories {viz. i.e. Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala , Delhi and Puducherry}.

Besides,  different  Ministries/  Departments  of  Government  of  India  have  been implementing  a  number  of  schemes  viz;  Start-up  India  by  the  Ministry  of Commerce and Industry and Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme  (PMEGP)  by  Ministry  of  Micro,  Small  and  Medium  Enterprises (MSME), Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, etc to  give a boost to entrepreneurship development.

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