Lok Sabha Question No. 3509 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-08
Subject: Wellness Sector Skill Council
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Girish Bhalchandra Bapat, Rahul Ramesh Shewale, Pritam Gopinath Munde

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

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## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3509 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.08.2022

## WELLNESS SECTOR SKILL COUNCIL

## 3509.  SHRI CHANDRA SEKHAR SAHU:      SHRI GIRISH BHALCHANDRA BAPAT: SHRI RAHUL RAMESH SHEWALE:     DR. PRITAM GOPINATHRAO MUNDE:

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

- (a)       whether the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council has been functioning in the country;
- (b)       if so, the details of funds allocated, sanctioned to the Council since its inception;
- (c)        the details of the short term and long term courses being organised by the Council for promoting skills in the country particularly in Odisha;
- (d)       the details of initiatives so far undertaken by the Council and the number of students so far benefitted from various such initiatives, State-wise particularly in Odisha; and
- (e)       the extent to which the Council has so far been achieved its objectives?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a)      Yes  Sir.  Beauty  &  Wellness  Sector  Skill  Council  (B&WSSC)  was  set  up  in  2014  as autonomous  industry-led  body with Confederation  of Indian Industries as its  Promoter Organization,  by  the  Ministry  of  Skill  Development  and  Entrepreneurship  (MSDE)  through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to ensure that skill development efforts being made by all the stakeholders are in accordance with the actual needs of the industry and to develop competency standards.

The Government has conferred developmental functions (like development of National Occupational  Standards  (NOSs)  /  Qualification  Packs  (QPs),  providing  employer  connect, assessing sectoral skill requirement, etc.) as well as regulatory functions (like affiliating training providers (TPs) for specific job roles, assessment & certification Trainees, Training of Trainers (ToTs), and Training of Assessors (ToAs), etc.) on the SSCs for the smooth conduct of skill development programs.

- (b)       The Government provides the seed money for initial capacity building of the SSCs and further  funding  has  to  be  done  in  tranches  after  achievement  of  certain  monitorable  targets. Accordingly,  Ministry  through  NSDC  had  sanctioned  Rs.  5  crore  as  the  grant  amount  for B&WSSC at the time of incorporation via agreement in 2014. Out of which, Rs.3.25 Cr. were disbursed  to  B&WSSC  at  the  time  of  inception.  Presently,  B&WSSC  is  in  a  self-sustainable mode; hence, no further grants were released by the Ministry.

(c)  and  (d)       B&WSSC  has  designed  25  NSQF  (National  Skills  Qualifications  Framework) aligned  job  roles  which  have  been  adopted  by  26  state  school  boards  including  Odisha  and Central  Board  of  Secondary  Education.  Also,  B&WSSC  has  conducted  recognition  of  prior learning programs in the State of Odisha for the beneficiaries of Yoga job roles through training partners like Patanjali and Art of Living.

Training  programmes  have  been  conducted  in  the  job  roles  designed  by  B&WSSC under  various  schemes  of  Central  and  State  Government  such  as  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal Vikas  Yojana  (PMKVY),  Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY), Seekho  aur  Kamao,  etc.  Since  inception  i.e.  2014,  9.91  lakh  candidates  have  been  trained across  the  country  (0.13  lakh  candidates  of  State  of  Odisha)  in  the  job  roles  designed  by B&WSSC. The state-wise details are given at Annexure .

(e)        In  addition  to  design  and  develop  industry  specific  course  curriculum,  B&WSSC  has certified  more  than  2800  Trainers  and  1200  Assessors  so  far  under  the  skilling  eco  system. Also, there are more than 550 industry members associated with B&WSSC.

## Annexure

## ANNEXURE  REFER  TO  IN  REPLY  PART  (c)  to  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED

## QUESTION NO. 3509

## State-wise number of candidates trained in job roles designed by B&WSSC:

| S. No.   | State                              | Candidates Trained   |
|----------|------------------------------------|----------------------|
| 1        | Andaman & Nicobar Island           | 531                  |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh                     | 9,213                |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 2,965                |
| 4        | Assam                              | 29,838               |
| 5        | Bihar                              | 31,637               |
| 6        | Chandigarh                         | 3,112                |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh                       | 8,857                |
| 8        | Dadra Nagra Haveli and Daman & Diu | 612                  |
| 9        | Delhi                              | 44,168               |
| 10       | Goa                                | 1,613                |
| 11       | Gujarat                            | 25,405               |
| 12       | Haryana                            | 71,784               |
| 13       | Himachal Pradesh                   | 12,142               |
| 14       | Jammu & Kashmir                    | 14,390               |
| 15       | Jharkhand                          | 15,547               |
| 16       | Karnataka                          | 20,873               |
| 17       | Kerala                             | 21,598               |
| 18       | Ladakh                             | 52                   |
| 19       | Madhya Pradesh                     | 1,02,917             |
| 20       | Maharashtra                        | 74,335               |
| 21       | Manipur                            | 1,019                |
| 22       | Meghalaya                          | 1,855                |
| 23       | Mizoram                            | 7,344                |
| 24       | Nagaland                           | 7,381                |
| 25       | Odisha                             | 13,525               |
| 26       | Puducherry                         | 2,122                |
| 27       | Punjab                             | 74,129               |
| 28       | Rajasthan                          | 93,540               |
| 29       | Sikkim                             | 1,216                |
| 30       | Tamil Nadu                         | 58,411               |
| 31       | Telangana                          | 26,117               |
| 32       | Tripura                            | 3,892                |
| 33       | Uttar Pradesh                      | 98,780               |
| 34       | Uttarakhand                        | 18,495               |
| 35       | West Bengal                        | 91,797               |
| Total    |                                    | 9,91,212             |

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