Lok Sabha Question No. 1165 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-19
Subject: Measures to Fight against Covid-19
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Anil Firojiya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1165 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.09.2020

## MEASURES TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

## †1165.  SHRI ANIL FIROJIYA:

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

- (a)        whether  any  steps  have  been  taken  by  the  Ministry  of  Skill  Development  and Enterprises to support fight against COVID-19, if so, the details thereof;
- (b)       if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c)        whether any database has been prepared with regard to labourers who returned back  to  their  homes  from  different  States  of  the  country  and  the  Indian  citizens  who returned back in the country under Vande Bharat Mission who have filled their skilled cards and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d)       whether there is any proposed to use this data base for their employment and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)  and  (b)       The  Ministry  has  taken  a  number  of  steps  to  help  the  nation  to  fight against Covid-19.Some of the major steps are as follow:-
- i. The  database of 1,75,000 persons trained by the Ministry's skilling ecosystem in health sector such as Health Workers, Emergency Medical Technicians, General Duty  Assistants,  Home  Health  Aid  etc  were  made  available  to  the  States  for utilizing their services during the pandemic;
- ii. The  facilities  in  National  Skill  Training  Institutes  (NSTIs)/Industrial  Training Institutes (ITI) were made available to the States for use as   Quarantine Centres / Isolation Wards
- iii. About  32  lakhs  of  face  mask  were  prepared  and  distributed  by  Jan  Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), ITIs and NSTIs.
- iv. Skill  levels  of  reverse  migrant  workers  were  mapped  and  process  started  to train  3  lakh  such  reverse  migrants  to  ensure  availability  of   local  livelihood opportunities to these migrants
- v. The data of willing overseas returnee migrants were captured and onboarded on ASEEM so as to provide job opportunities to them
- vi. Online Training was conducted through BharatSkills portal covering 29 popular courses, e-learning video content for 71 courses and Question Bank for all the 137 trades under Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS) for ITIs benefitting 9,38,851 trainees

(c)  and (d)     This Ministry, in partnership with Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Civil Aviation, is doing the skill mapping exercise of the returning citizens under the Vande Bharat Mission flights. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), an organization under the Ministry, has issued SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for  Employment Support) skill cards to the returning Indians in Vande Bharat Mission flights  and  as  on  31.08.2020,  about  28,000  citizens  have  already  registered  for SWADES  skill  cards.  Details  of  25,979  persons  have  been  uploaded  on  the  newly launched ASEEM (Atmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping) portal, which is a directory of all skilled persons in the country and which potential employers can use to recruit skilled personnel in any part of the country.

Similarly, this Ministry has done a skill mapping exercise of the internal migrants who returned  from  other  states  to  their  home  districts  in  116  districts  taken  up  under  the Garib Kalayan Rozgar Abhiyaan (GKRA). The details of such skilled persons have been on-boarded on   ASEEM. As on 11th September, 12.82 lakh returning  migrant  details have  been  made  available  on  ASEEM,  and  thus  are  available  for  recruitment  by potential employers.

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