Lok Sabha Question No. 15 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: Skill Development Programmes for Disabled Persons
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: S. Jothimani

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.15 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020

## SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR DISABLED PERSONS

## 15. MS. S. JOTHIMANI:

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

- (a) the details of skill development programmes and initiatives for disabled persons under the National Skill Development Corporation;
- (b) the details of skill development programmes and initiatives for disabled persons under the National Skill Development Agency;
- (c) the  State-wise  implementation  details  for  the  above,  and  list  of  programmes started in Karur district of Tamil Nadu;
- (d) whether  the  Government  will  consider  organizing  rozgaar  melas  /  job  fairs  for divyang or specially-abled people;
- (e) if so, the details thereof for Karur parliamentary constituency?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), under the Ministry of Skill Development is responsible for implementation of CSCM  (Centrally Sponsored Centrally Managed) component of PMKVY(2016-20) program which is the flagship skill development  scheme  for  all  sections  of  the  society  including  persons  with  disability (PwD)  and  fee  based  program  through  its  affiliated  and  accredited  training  partners across country.

Under  PMKVY  (2016-20),  there  are  incentives  to  encourage  participation  of PwDs  in  the  skill  training  namely;  post  placement  support,  monthly  conveyance allowance, boarding and lodging etc. There is an exclusive Sector Skill Council for PwD namely Skill Council for PwD (SCPwD) for catering to the needs of the PwD candidates and  it  runs  training  in  PwD-friendly  training  centres.  Such  centres  are  structurally designed  to enable PwD  candidates  to  experience    beneficial training such  as availability  of  Braille,  computer  screen  reader  for  visually  impaired,  sign  language interpreter for speech and hearing impaired at Training Centres.

(b) National  Skill  Development  Agency  has  been  subsumed  under National Council  for  Vocational  Education  and  Training  (NCVET)  which  has  been  notified  by MSDE on 05 th  December, 2018 as an overarching regulatory body to establish minimum standards for the functioning of entities in both long and short term training. It, amongst others,  anchors the National Skills  Qualification  Framework  (NSQF) and allied quality assurance mechanisms.

In  order  to  incorporate  the  needs  of  PwD  in  development  of  qualifications,  a committee comprising of various stakeholders was set up in NSDA (now NCVET).  After several consultations the following decisions were taken:

- To include PwD component in the Qualification File Template.
- To add new sector in the NQR to reflect Qualifications being used for training of PwD.
- To invite (SCPwD)  and Department of Empowerment  of Persons with Disabilities (DePwD), in stakeholder consultations of all job roles at NSDA (now NCVET), in order to obtain their inputs on the PwD amenability of job roles.

(c) Under NSDC  Fee  based program, 9,086 persons with disability (PwD) candidates  have  been  trained  in  the  last  3  years.  800  PwD  candidates  have  been trained in Tamil Nadu. However, no PwD candidate has been trained in Karur district of Tamil Nadu in the last 2 year.

Under PMKVY 2016-20, as on 17.03.2020, more than 40,000 PwD candidates have been trained out of which more than 1100 PwD candidates have been trained in the state of Tamil Nadu. However, no PwD candidate has been trained in Karur district of  Tamil  Nadu.  The  state-wise  details  of  the  PwD  candidate  trained,  certified  and reported placed is at Annexure-I .

(d) & (e) National  Skill  Development  Corporation  (NSDC)  through  its  Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra's (PMKKs) and other Training Partners conduct Rozgar melas on  PAN  India  basis  as  it's  an  ongoing  process.  In  the  light  of  the  current  ongoing Covid19  Pandemic,  there  are  currently  no  plans  to  organise  Rozgar  Melas  in  Karur Parliamentary Constituency.

Annexure-I The State-wise details of PwD candidates trained, certified and reported placed

## under PMKVY 2016-20, as on 17.03.2020, is given below:

| SNo.   | State             | Trained   | Certified   | Placed   |
|--------|-------------------|-----------|-------------|----------|
| 1.     | Andhra Pradesh    | 972       | 727         | 64       |
| 2.     | Arunachal Pradesh | 14        | 0           | 0        |
| 3.     | Assam             | 1,257     | 872         | 227      |
| 4.     | Bihar             | 1,431     | 1,202       | 517      |
| 5.     | Chandigarh        | 2         | 2           | 2        |
| 6.     | Chhattisgarh      | 408       | 334         | 132      |
| 7.     | Delhi             | 1,625     | 1,419       | 357      |
| 8.     | Goa               | 1         | 1           | 1        |
| 9.     | Gujarat           | 330       | 309         | 180      |
| 10.    | Haryana           | 3,522     | 2,845       | 1,345    |
| 11.    | Himachal Pradesh  | 185       | 170         | 128      |
| 12.    | Jammu and Kashmir | 2,568     | 2,278       | 575      |
| 13.    | Jharkhand         | 914       | 885         | 385      |
| 14.    | Karnataka         | 345       | 39          | 22       |
| 15.    | Kerala            | 328       | 177         | 200      |
| 16.    | Madhya Pradesh    | 2,766     | 2,265       | 1,051    |
| 17.    | Maharashtra       | 687       | 513         | 8        |
| 18.    | Manipur           | 1         | 0           | 0        |
| 19.    | Meghalaya         | 0         | 0           | 0        |
| 20.    | Odisha            | 586       | 505         | 203      |
| 21.    | Puducherry        | 2         | 2           | 0        |
| 22.    | Punjab            | 2,603     | 2,323       | 884      |
| 23.    | Rajasthan         | 5,975     | 5,149       | 2,510    |
| 24.    | Sikkim            | 66        | 52          | 0        |
| 25.    | Tamil Nadu        | 1,153     | 561         | 375      |
| 26.    | Telangana         | 524       | 460         | 191      |
| 27.    | Tripura           | 4         | 4           | 3        |
| 28.    | Uttar Pradesh     | 11,327    | 9,289       | 3,194    |
| 29.    | Uttarakhand       | 279       | 221         | 156      |
| 30.    | West Bengal       | 425       | 313         | 155      |
|        | Total             | 40,300    | 32,917      | 12,865   |

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