Lok Sabha Question No. 3573 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-08
Subject: Skilling Tribal Youth
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Kripanath Mallah

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3573 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.08.2022

## SKILLING TRIBAL YOUTH

## 3573:  SHRI KRIPANATH MALLAH:

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

(a) whether the Government is planning to launch a Pilot Project for Skilling Tribal Youth within the country and if so, the details thereof;

(b) the details of the funds likely to be sanctioned under this project and the details of the target likely to set; and

(c) the number of States likely to cover under this project and the time by which it is likely to be launched?

## ANSWER

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

(a) The Government has adopted a multi-pronged strategy for the overall development of tribal youth living across the country which includes supports for skill training. The Ministry of Skill  Development  and  Entrepreneurship  (MSDE) has  been  implementing Pradhan  Mantri Kaushal  Vikas  Yojana  (PMKVY),  Jan  Shikshan  Sansthan  (JSS)  Scheme  and  National Apprenticeship  Promotion  Scheme  (NAPS)  for  providing  short  term  Skill  Development training and Craftsman Training Scheme (CTS) through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) for  long  term  training,  to  the  youth  belonging  to  all  section  of  the  society  including  tribal community.

A pilot project, 'Village Engineers Project', for the multi-skilling of tribal youth, was launched a few months ago by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) (a functional arm of MSDE) in Bhopal with the first batch of about 200 engineers and will be expanded gradually across all districts.

Further, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), which is the nodal Ministry for overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for development of the Schedules Tribes (STs) all over the country, provides funding support under the Scheme of 'Special Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Scheme' (SCA to TSS) for Vocational training in Tribal Areas. This Scheme aims  at  upgrading  the  skills  of  the  tribal  youth  in  various  traditional/modern  vocations depending  upon  their  educational  qualification,  present  economic  trends  and  the  market potentials to enable them to gain sustainable employment or become self-dependent.

(b) The schemes of the MSDE are demand-driven and hence, targets are often not set. However,  all  the  above  schemeshave  the  mandatory  provision  of  utilization  of  funds  for tribals through Scheduled Tribe (ST) component. The details of fund allocation under Tribal Sub Plan in the PMKVY Scheme, JSS scheme and NAPS in FY 2022-23 are given below:

|   S. No. | Scheme   |   Total Budget Estimates, 2022-23 |   Budget Estimates 2022-23 (ST component) |
|----------|----------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|        1 | PMKVY    |                              1442 |                                    111.12 |
|        2 | JSS      |                               200 |                                     15.16 |
|        3 | NAPS     |                               170 |                                     13.16 |

- (c) All the schemes are on-going and are delivering skills across the country.

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