Lok Sabha Question No. 1253 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-25
Subject: Skill Development of BPL Youths
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Sunil Baburao Mendhe

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1253 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.07.2022

## SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF BPL YOUTHS

## 1253.  SHRI CHANDESHWAR PRASAD:

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

- (a) whether the Government has formulated any scheme for the Skill development of the youth particularly those youth living below the poverty line in Maharashtra;

(b) if so, the details thereof?

- (c) whether these trained youth have been provided employment and the district-wise details thereof; and
- (d) the total funds allocated to Maharashtra under this scheme?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)       Yes, Sir. Under Skill India Mission, the Government of India is implementing more than  40  programmes  through  more  than  20  Central  Ministries/Department  for  skill development for youths including youth living below poverty line in Maharashtra.  Skilling alongwith Private Sector/Public Sector Employees are being encouraged to reach Rural and Urban youth also.
- (b) The  details  of  number  of  persons  trained  under  the  various  schemes  being implemented by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) are as follows:

|   S. No. | Schemes                                    | Brief                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) | Under the scheme, skill training is provided to youth belonging to all sections of the society including BPL category, in various sectors as per the need of the market demand. Under the PMKVY (PMKVY 2.0 & PMVKY 3.0) scheme, till June 2022, 1.17 crore candidates have been trained. |

|   2 | Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS)                                             | Jan Shikshan Sansthans (JSSs) are imparting skill training to nonliterate, neo-literates, persons with rudimentary level of education upto 8th and school dropouts upto 12th standard in the age group of 15-45 years in rural areas and urban slums. The priority groups are women, SC, ST, minorities and other backward sections of the society. Total BPL trained beneficiaries from FY 2019-20 to FY 2021-22 are 84,930.                                                     |
|-----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   3 | National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme(NAPS)                          | This Scheme is for promoting apprenticeship training and increasing the engagement of apprentices by providing financial support to industrial establishments undertaking apprenticeship program under The Apprentices Act, 1961.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|   4 | Craftsmen Training Scheme through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) | This scheme is for providing long - term training through Industrial Training Institutes ( ITIs ) operational across the country . The ITIs offer a range of vocational/skill training courses covering a large number of economic sectors with an objective of providing skilled workforce to the industry as well as self-employment of youth. In 1003 total number of ITIs in Maharastra(420 Govt. ITIs and 583 Pvt. ITIs), 3,26,392 students have enrolled from 2019 to 2021. |

Apart from MSDE, following major skilling schemes of the other Ministries are imparting various types of skill training to the youth in a big way:

- Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojna  (DDU-GKY) of  Ministry  of  Rural Development which is a placement linked skill development program for wage employment. The  total  number  of  candidates  trained  during  last  two  years  under DDU-GKY (2020-21& 2021-22) are 1,35,295 .
- Skill  development  through Rural  Self  Employment  Training  Institutes  (RSETIs) of Ministry of Rural Development enabling a trainee to take Bank credit and start his/her own Micro-enterprise. Some of such trainees may also seek regular salaried jobs. The total number of candidates trained during last two years (2020-21& 2021-22) are 5,69,255 .
- Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojna - National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM) by Ministry  of  Housing  and  Urban  Affairs  (MoHUA)  is  a  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  to reduce poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households on a sustainable basis. Under the Employment through Skill Training and Placement (EST&P) component, skill training is provided to the urban poor candidates in market-oriented certified courses to place them in wage  employment  and/  or  self-employment  opportunities.  In  last  5  years  (2017-18  to 2021-22), 92,411 skill-trained candidates from Maharastra have been placed under DAYNULM.

Further, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) is also implementing the following schemes for rural youth/ farmers:

- Skill  Training  of  Rural  Youth  (STRY) 7  days  under  Sub  Mission  on  Agricultural Extension  (SMAE)  -  The  short  term  skill  training  of  7  days  (15  trainees  per  batch)  is imparted to rural youth and farmers on specific vocational areas in agriculture and allied areas through Governmental training institutes including Krishi Vigyan Kendras and State Agricultural Universities. The total number of candidates trained during last two years (2020-21& 2021-22) are 16,870 .
- Skill  training  under  National  Skill  Development Mission  (NSDM)  (minimum  200  Hours) The  major  areas  of  skill  trainings  include  mushroom  production,  bee-keeping,  micro irrigation,  maintenance  and  repair  of  farm  equipments,  nursery  management,  organic grower, vermi-compost production, animal husbandry, dairying, poultry, fishery, etc.

(c) Under  PMKVY  (PMKVY  2.0  &  PMKVY  3.0),  11.05  lakh  candidates  have  been trained/  oriented  in  the  State  of  Maharashtra,  including  candidates  from  below  poverty line.  As  under  PMKVY,  placement  opportunities  are  being  provided  to  STT  certified candidates, while RPL is not linked with placements, 69,658 candidates have been placed in the State of Maharashtra ,  including candidates from below poverty line. The district wise details of candidates trained and placed are placed at Annexure-I .

JSS: The  objective  of  training  imparted  under  JSS  is  to  link  the  individuals  for  gainful livelihood  and  supplement  their  family  income  through  self-employment  and  wage employment.  The  providing  of  employment/placement  to  the  beneficiaries  is  not  the mandate of the JSS Scheme. As far as the employment of the JSS scheme beneficiaries is  concerned,  third  party  evaluation  report  of  the  scheme  has  mentioned,  'It  is  finally observed that as an impact of the training programme conducted at JSSs, the self and wage employment and private job have become evident'. The usefulness of the scheme would be further self-evident from the fact that same report has mentioned that 77.05% of the beneficiary trainees have undergone occupational shifts.

CTS: The final report of Tracer Study of ITI Graduates (published in January 2018 by the Ministry  of  Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, GoI) mentions that 63.5% of total ITI pass-outs got employed (wage+ self, out of which 6.7% are self-employed).

NAPS: Placements are not tracked in NAPS.

(d) Total fund allocated to Maharastra under these schemes are given below:

PMKVY: Under  the  Centrally  Sponsored  State  Managed  (CSSM)  component  of  the PMKVY scheme, there is a provision of State/UT-wise allocation of funds. Till 30 th June 2022, a total of Rs. 490.97 crore have been allocated to the state of Maharashtra under PMKVY.

## Amount (Rs. in Crore)

| PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   | PMKVY Disbursement for Maharashtra (30 th June   |          |          |          | Grand   |
|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|---------|
| State                                            | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY2.0                                         | PMKVY3.0 | PMKVY3.0 | PMKVY3.0 | Total   |
|                                                  | 2016- 17                                         | 2017- 18                                         | 2018- 19                                         | 2019- 20                                         | 2020-21                                          | 2021- 22                                         | 2022- 23                                         | 2020- 21 | 2021- 22 | 2022- 23 | Total   |
| Maharashtra                                      | 17.91                                            | 58.72                                            | 99.17                                            | 170.15                                           | 110.30                                           | 19.25                                            | 0.26                                             | -        | 10.35    | 4.87     | 490.97  |

JSS : The total funds allocated to Maharashtra under JSS scheme:

## Amount (Rs. in crore)

| State/UT    |   Total grants released in FY 2019-20 |   Total grants released in FY 2020-21 |   Total grants released in FY 2021-22 |
|-------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| Maharashtra |                                 10.39 |                                  9.78 |                                  9.77 |

NAPS: Under  NAPS,  Rs.19.768  crore  grant-in-aid  was  allotted  to  Maharashtra  from 2016-17 to 2018-19.

Upgradation of existing Government ITIs into Model ITIs: The financial performance of States under is placed below:

Amount (Rs. in crore)

| States / UTs   | Location of the ITI   |   Approved allocation under the scheme |   Central Allocation |   Total Central funds released till date |
|----------------|-----------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------|------------------------------------------|
| Maharashtra    | ITI Nashik            |                                      9 |                 6.29 |                                     1.57 |

Skill  Development  in  48  Districts  Affected  by  Left  Wing  Extremism: The  financial performance of States under is placed below:

## Amount (Rs. in crore)

| State       |   Allocation |   Fund released |
|-------------|--------------|-----------------|
| Maharashtra |        15.45 |            8.81 |

Scheme of Polytechnics '  Under  Community  Development Through Polytechnics  (CDTP) component; recurring grant upto Rs. 17.00 lakhs per polytechnic per annum is provided by Govt. of  India  to  various  States/UTs  including  Maharashtra. The  funds  are  allocated  based  on  the progress of the Scheme in the State and availability of funds. Grant-in-aid of Rs. 26.87 crore has been released to the State of Maharashtra for the CDTP sub-scheme .

Annexure-I regarding 'SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF BPL YOUTHS'.

## Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  LSUQ  NO.  1253  to  be  answered  on  25.07.2022 PMKVY:  District  wise  candidates  trained  and  placed  in  STT  component  under

## PMKVY (PMKVY 2.0 & PMKVY 3.0) scheme in Maharashtra (as on June 2022)

| District        | Trained    | Reported Placed   |
|-----------------|------------|-------------------|
| Ahmednagar      | 40,758     | 2,507             |
| Akola           | 7,284      | 967               |
| Amravati        | 11,726     | 1,950             |
| Aurangabad      | 32,126     | 1,382             |
| Beed            | 20,434     | 1,882             |
| Bhandara        | 10,750     | 1,946             |
| Buldhana        | 10,470     | 1,634             |
| Chandrapur      | 19,368     | 1,367             |
| Dhule           | 19,342     | 1,844             |
| Gadchiroli      | 12,717     | 1,691             |
| Gondia          | 14,339     | 3,995             |
| Hingoli         | 17,017     | 701               |
| Jalgaon         | 49,810     | 2,557             |
| Jalna           | 20,197     | 1,086             |
| Kolhapur        | 62,834     | 5,184             |
| Latur           | 46,447     | 3,544             |
| Mumbai          | 177,928    | 465               |
| Mumbai Suburban | 9,704      | 289               |
| Nagpur          | 56,761     | 5,194             |
| Nanded          | 28,104     | 1,239             |
| Nandurbar       | 13,615     | 1,416             |
| Nashik          | 69,938     | 3,439             |
| Osmanabad       | 18,731     | 1,056             |
| Palghar         | 3,183      | 981               |
| Parbhani        | 16,445     | 680               |
| Pune            | 135,481    | 10,041            |
| Raigad          | 10,865     | 325               |
| Ratnagiri       | 9,152      | 72                |
| Sangli          | 25,154     | 1,221             |
| Satara          | 21,591     | 1,101             |
| Sindhudurg      | 7,409      | 509               |
| Solapur         | 35,060     | 1,504             |
| Thane           | 37,504     | 1,479             |
| Wardha          | 17,151     | 1,299             |
| Washim          | 4,552      | 937               |
| Yavatmal        | 11,437     | 2,174             |
| Total           | 11,05, 384 | 69,658            |

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