Lok Sabha Question No. 787 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-12
Subject: PM-YUVA
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: DNV Senthilkumar. S., Supriya Sadanand Sule, Amol Ramsing Kolhe, Sunil Dattatray Tatkare, Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, Kuldeep Rai Sharma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 787

TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.12.2022

## PM-YUVA

787. DR. DNV SENTHILKUMAR S.:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

DR. AMOL RAMSING KOLHE:

SHRI SUNIL DATTATRAY TATKARE:

DR. SUBHASH RAMRAO BHAMRE:      SHRI KULDEEP RAI SHARMA:

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

- (a) whether the Government has achieved the objective for which Pradhan Mantri Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan (PM-YUVA) Yojana was launched;
- (b) if  so, the details thereof along with the challenges faced by the Government while implementing the yojana;
- (c) the number of students who have been provided entrepreneurship education and training during each of the last three years and current year;
- (d) the achievement made by the yojana since its inception;
- (e) whether the Government has also rolled out Phase II of PM YUVA and if so, the details thereof along with total amount allocated; and
- (f) the steps taken by the Government to make the PM-YUVA Yojana successful?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a) & (b) The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in association with Wadhwani Operating Foundation (WOF) launched the Pradhan Mantri Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan (PM-YUVA) Yojana on 9 th November, 2016 with the objective to create an enabling ecosystem for entrepreneurship development through entrepreneurship education and training across the country. This was implemented in Institutes of Higher Learning (Colleges, Universities, Polytechnics). A total of 239 Institutes of Higher Learning were empanelled across 26 States/UTs. However, the scheme was restructured in June 2018 to include  skill  training  institutes  under  MSDE,  namely,  Industrial  Training  Institutes  (ITIs),  Jan  Shikshan Sansthan  (JSS),  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Kendra  (PMKK),  Polytechnics.  The  number  of  beneficiaries reached through PM-YUVA Phase-I (State-wise) is given in Annexure-I .

Based  on  the  learning's  from  PM-YUVA  Phase-I,  National  Institute  for  Entrepreneurship  and Small  Business  Development  (NIESBUD)  rolled  out  Phase-II  of  the  PM-YUVA  on  its  own  from  2019. MSDE implemented project on Entrepreneurship Development (PM-YUVA Phase-II) through NIESBUD, at an estimated cost of Rs.12 crore upto March, 2022, in around 300 Institutes under the skill ecosystem. The aim of the Pilot Project was to promote entrepreneurship as an alternate career choice and provide mentoring  support to  potential  and  early-stage  entrepreneurs  by  imparting  entrepreneurship  education and  mentoring  support  to  trainees/  beneficiaries  from  skill  ecosystem.  The  project  was  implemented through organizations having experience in entrepreneurship development, entrepreneurship training as well  as  mentoring  and  handholding  in  10  States  and  2  Union  Territories  (viz.  Assam,  Bihar,  Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Delhi and Puducherry).

The scheme envisaged creation of 600 new and 1000 scale up enterprises, against which 1045 new enterprises were set-up and 968 existing enterprises were scaled-up. Further, the details of activities undertaken under the Pilot Project are given in Annexure-II .

The  objectives  of  the  pilot  Project  were  achieved  despite  various  challenges  faced  during  the implementation of the project especially due to outbreak of Covid-19. The details of the total number of beneficiaries covered under the project are given in Annexure-III .

- (c) Under the Phase-II of the PM-YUVA pilot project, the details of the total number of beneficiaries covered are given in Annexure-III .
- (d) The details of activities undertaken under the Phase-II of the PM-YUVA pilot project is given in Annexure-II .
- (e) & (f)  Refer part (a) & (b) above.

## ANNEXURE-I  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  787 REGARDING 'PM-YUVA' TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.12.2022

## Details  of  the  number  of  beneficiaries  reached  through  PM-YUVA  Phase-I  (state-wise)  are  as under :

| Sl. No.   | State Name        |   Number of Students Enrolled |   Student Attempted Final Assessment |   Student Passed Final Assessment |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |                           295 |                                  124 |                               116 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |                            36 |                                   14 |                                12 |
| 3         | Assam             |                           440 |                                  150 |                                91 |
| 4         | Bihar             |                             0 |                                    0 |                                 0 |
| 5         | Delhi             |                          1920 |                                  829 |                               655 |
| 6         | Gujarat           |                             9 |                                    1 |                                 0 |
| 7         | Haryana           |                           563 |                                  473 |                               382 |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh  |                           285 |                                   42 |                                34 |
| 9         | Jammu and Kashmir |                            58 |                                    0 |                                 0 |
| 10        | Jharkhand         |                            35 |                                   11 |                                 4 |
| 11        | Karnataka         |                           636 |                                  299 |                               260 |
| 12        | Kerala            |                          2128 |                                 1382 |                              1232 |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh    |                          1357 |                                 1158 |                               974 |
| 14        | Maharashtra       |                          1134 |                                  527 |                               329 |
| 15        | Meghalaya         |                            64 |                                   26 |                                18 |
| 16        | Nagaland          |                            37 |                                    0 |                                 0 |
| 17        | Odisha            |                           359 |                                   79 |                                72 |
| 18        | Pondicherry       |                           246 |                                  173 |                               154 |
| 19        | Punjab            |                           791 |                                  490 |                               412 |
| 20        | Rajasthan         |                          1050 |                                  620 |                               493 |
| 21        | Tamil Nadu        |                          2874 |                                 1432 |                              1084 |
| 22        | Telangana         |                          1345 |                                  551 |                               430 |
| 23        | Uttar Pradesh     |                           773 |                                  275 |                               200 |
| 24        | Uttarakhand       |                             0 |                                    0 |                                 0 |
| 25        | West Bengal       |                           974 |                                  527 |                               440 |
|           | Total             |                         17409 |                                 9183 |                              7392 |

## ANNEXURE-II  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  787 REGARDING 'PM-YUVA' TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.12.2022

## Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (EAP) & Community Awareness Program (CAP)

| Student Orientation   | Student Orientation   | Community Awareness   | Community Awareness   |
|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
| No. of Sessions       | Participants          | No. of Sessions       | Participants          |
| 270                   | 34760                 | 59                    | 5003                  |

## Faculty Training (Training of Trainers (ToT)), Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) and Faculty Mentor training (FMT)

| TOT             | TOT          | EDP             | EDP                     | EDP                        | FMT             | FMT          |
|-----------------|--------------|-----------------|-------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------|--------------|
| No. of Sessions | Participants | No. of Sessions | Participants Registered | Participants Completed EDP | No. of Sessions | Participants |
| 17              | 443          | 215             | 17856                   | 13202                      | 9               | 227          |

## Number of enterprises setup/scaled up

|   New Enterprises set up |   Scale-up Enterprises |
|--------------------------|------------------------|
|                     1045 |                    968 |

## Details of participation in Mentoring Camps

| Mentoring Camp   | Mentoring Camp   |
|------------------|------------------|
| No. of Sessions  | Participants     |
| 108              | 3951             |

## ANNEXURE-III  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  787 REGARDING 'PM-YUVA' TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.12.2022

Details of the total number of beneficiaries covered under the project are as under:

| SI No.   | Activity                                                   | Total Number Beneficiaries reached   |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 1        | Principals' Orientation                                    | 396                                  |
| 2        | Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (Students' Orientation) | 34,760                               |
| 3        | Community Awareness Program                                | 5,003                                |
| 4        | Entrepreneurship Development Program                       | 17,797                               |
| 5        | Training of Trainers (Faculty Facilitator Training)        | 443                                  |
| 6        | Faculty Mentor Training                                    | 227                                  |
| 7        | Mentoring Camp                                             | 3,951                                |
|          | Grand Total                                                | 62,577                               |

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