Lok Sabha Question No. 105 (STARRED), answered on 2019-02-11
Subject: Skill Development Training
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 105 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2019

## SKILL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

## *105.  SHRI BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA:

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

- (a) whether the Government has developed any new mechanism for monitoring the functioning of skill development training provider agencies and the Government assistance being provided to them;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the  number  of  people  against  whom  action  has  been  taken  so  far  in  this regard along with the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

- (a) to (c) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (A) TO (C) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 105 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2019 ASKED BY SHRI BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA REGARDING 'SKILL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING'

(a) to (c) Under Skill India Mission, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship  is  implementing  a  flagship  scheme  known  as  Pradhan  Mantri Kaushal  Vikas  Yojana  (PMKVY)  with  an  objective  to  provide  skilling  to  one  crore people under Short Term Training (STT), Recognition  of Prior Learning (RPL)  and Special Project (SP) through accredited and affiliated training centers (TCs) across the country for four years i.e. 2016-2020. Under the scheme, the accreditation and affiliation  of  training  centres  are  being  done  through  a  single  window  application SMART for imparting skill development training.

The  guidelines  for  PMKVY  2016-20  have  various  provisions  relating  to continuous  as  well  as  performance  monitoring  of  training  centres.  For  ensuring quality of training under the scheme, all accreditation and affiliation of training centres are done through an online portal SMART with inspections done by an independent third party assessment agency. 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.  Further,  the  targets  are  being assigned  to  the  TCs  with  a  provision  for  periodic  review.  The  grading  is  linked  to quality  of  training,  infrastructure  availability,  training  capacity,  past  performance, geographical location and other relevant parameters. 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 and 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.  As  on  10.01.2019,  267 training  centres  were  withheld  or  suspended  for  their  impropriety  and  incomplete works.

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