Lok Sabha Question No. 1449 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-01
Subject: Skill Development Training of Persons with Disability
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Kapil Moreshwar Patil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1449 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.07.2019

## SKILL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

## † 1449. SHRI KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL:

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  centres  operating for Skill  Development/training  of persons with disability across the country, State/ UT-wise;
- (b) whether  any  centralized  monitoring  system  is  in  place  to  check  quality  of training imparted to persons with disability;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the details of funds allocated and spent for person with disability during each of the last three years; and
- (e) the  names  of  the  Non-  Governmental  Organisations  (NGOs)  providing  skill training to persons with disability along with the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a) and (d) Under the Skill India Mission, there are about 20 Central Ministries/Departments including Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) involved  in  the  implementation  of  more  than  40  schemes  for  various  skill development programmes.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 2016-20 is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship being implemented with an objective  to  provide  skilling  to  one  crore  prospective  youth  including  persons  with disability (PwD) under Short Term Training (STT) courses and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) across the country for four years i.e. 2016-2020 with an outlay of Rs. 12,000 crore. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PMKVY) is for all sections of the society including PwD.

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.  Further,  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 run training in PwD-friendly training centres. Such centres are structurally designed to enable PwD candidates to experience beneficial training. In addition, other Training Centres can also enroll differently abled candidates. As on 12.06.2019,  under  STT  component  of  PMKVY  2016-20,  26,751  PwD  candidates have been trained in 984 PwD friendly training centres. The State/UT - wise details are given at Annexure .

Under  PMKVY  2016-20,  there  is  no  provision of earmarking  of  funds exclusively  for  PwD  candidates,  hitherto  funds  amounting  to  Rs.  41.2  crore  have been spent for the training of PwD candidates.

(b), (c) and (e) Under  PMKVY  2016-20,  training  is  being  imparted  through accredited  and  affiliated  Training  Centres  which  can  be  a  private  entity,  NGO,  etc. For ensuring quality of training under the scheme, all accreditation and affiliation of training  centres  are  done  through  an  online  portal  SMART  (Skill  Management  and Accreditation  of  Training  Centres)  with  inspections  done  by  an  independent  third party assessment agency.

The  guidelines  for  PMKVY  2016-20  have  provisions  relating  to  continuous performance  monitoring  of  training  centres.  Adding  to  the  improved  accreditation process,  MSDE  has  initiated  a  process  of  continuous  monitoring  through  various channels and mandatory re-accreditation every year. Under this, self-audit reporting, call validations, surprise visits and  monitoring  through  the Skill  Development Management System (SDMS) have been adopted. Targets are being assigned to the TCs with  a  provision  for  periodic  review.  Further,  various  IT  interventions  such  as Direct  Benefit Transfer,  Aadhaar  linkage of trainers and trainees, Aadhaar enabled biometric  attendance  of  candidates  and  trainers,  maintaining  of  all  MIS  through SDMS  portal  to  check  duplication  of  candidates, digilocker  for  issuance  and verification of documents and certificate, Power-Bi tool to maintain transparency and continuous public awareness, Kaushal mart for online access to sample content, etc., have been ensured.

Additionally,  PMKVY  Monitoring  Committee  review  and  formulate  framework on  the  critical  cases  related  to  monitoring  issues  of  the  stakeholders.  Also,  the Committee  has  formulated  penalty  grid  (approved  by  Steering  Committee  for PMKVY)  for  taking action against erring / non compliant training centres / stakeholders.  Based  on  the  penalty  grid,  National  Skill  Development  Corporation (NSDC), an implementing agency of PMKVY under MSDE, has suspended training centers for noncompliance of PMKVY 2016-20 guidelines on multiple parameters and periodically publishes the list on PMKVY official website.

Annexure The State-wise number of empanelled TCs imparted training to PwD candidates under PMKVY 2016-20, as on 12.06.2019, are given below:

| S. No.      | State/UT          |   Number of TCs |
|-------------|-------------------|-----------------|
| 1.          | Andhra Pradesh    |              30 |
| 2.          | Arunachal Pradesh |               1 |
| 3.          | Assam             |              11 |
| 4.          | Bihar             |              52 |
| 5.          | Chhattisgarh      |              19 |
| 6.          | Delhi             |              33 |
| 7.          | Goa               |               1 |
| 8.          | Gujarat           |              17 |
| 9.          | Haryana           |              77 |
| 10.         | Himachal Pradesh  |               4 |
| 11.         | Jammu and Kashmir |              18 |
| 12.         | Jharkhand         |              18 |
| 13.         | Karnataka         |              18 |
| 14.         | Kerala            |              14 |
| 15.         | Madhya Pradesh    |              96 |
| 16.         | Maharashtra       |              20 |
| 17.         | Odisha            |              31 |
| 18.         | Puducherry        |               1 |
| 19.         | Punjab            |              58 |
| 20.         | Rajasthan         |             124 |
| 21.         | Sikkim            |               1 |
| 22.         | Tamil Nadu        |              36 |
| 23.         | Telangana         |              46 |
| 24.         | Tripura           |               3 |
| 25.         | Uttar Pradesh     |             195 |
| 26.         | Uttarakhand       |              11 |
| 27.         | West Bengal       |              49 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total       |             984 |

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