Lok Sabha Question No. 2183 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-08
Subject: Set up Skill Development Institute
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Sanjay Bhatia, Ravindra Kushawaha, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Ravi Kishan Shukla, (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria, Nayab Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2183 TO BE ANSWERED ON. 08.03.2021

## SET UP OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

†2183.

SHRI SANJAY BHATIA:                                                             SHRI RAVI KISHAN: SHRI RAVINDRA KUSHWAHA:                            DR. RAM SHANKAR KATHERIA: SHRI MANOJ TIWARI:                                                             SHRI NAYAB SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to set up Skill Development Institutes on the lines of Industrial Training Institutes (ITI);
- (b) if  so,  the  number  of  districts  of  Uttar  Pradesh,  National  Capital  Territory  of Delhi in which Skill Development Institutes are proposed to be set up and whether the said institutes are also proposed to be set up in Karnal, Panipat and Kurukshetra parliamentary constituencies;
- (c) the names of the places where institutes are likely to come up including the number of these institutes;
- (d) the time by which these institutes are likely to be set up; and
- (e) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI R.K.SINGH)

(a) to (e) Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Directorate General of  Training  is  implementing  a  scheme  titled  'Skill  Development  in  47  Districts Affected  by  Left  Wing  Extremism  (LWE)',  under  which  Government  of  India  is funding the establishment of 47 new Industrial Training Institutes in 47 districts of 10 States  @  1  ITI  per  district  and  68  Skill  Development  Centres  in  34  districts  of  9 States @ 2 SDCs per district in the LWE affected districts in the country. Under the scheme, Industrial Training Institute at Village-Vishundhari, Post-Ghorawal, Sonebhadra District of Uttar Pradesh has been established.  The details of districts covered  under  the  scheme  is  given  at Annexure .  There  is  no  proposal  to  set  up such institutes in Karnal, Panipat and Kurukshetra parliamentary constituencies.

Further, under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, aspirational model training  centres  for  short  term  training  called  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Kendra (PMKK) are being set up in every district of India, while ensuring coverage of all the Parliamentary  Constituencies  (PCs).  As  on  19th  January  2021,  738  PMKKs  have been already established. Of these 10 are in Delhi, 87 in Uttar Pradesh and 34 in Haryana, including in Karnal, Panipat and Kurukshetra.

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARA  (a)  to  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No.2183 DUE FOR REPLY ON 08.03.2021 Skill  Development  in  47  Districts  Affected  by  LWE:  The  details  of  districts covered under the scheme is below: -

| Sl. No.   | States         |   No. of Dist. | Name of district (covered for 1 ITI and 2 SDCs)                                                            | Name of district (covered for 1 ITI only)          |
|-----------|----------------|----------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh |              1 |                                                                                                            | Vishakhapatnam                                     |
| 2         | Telangana      |              1 | Khammam                                                                                                    |                                                    |
| 3         | Bihar          |              9 | Jamui, Gaya, Aurangabad, Rohtas, Jehanabad, Arwal,                                                         | Muzzafarpur, Banka and Nawada                      |
| 4         | Chhattisgarh   |              9 | Dantewada, Bastar, Kanker, Surguja, Rajnandgaon, BijapurandNarayanpur,                                     | Sukma and Kondagaon                                |
| 5         | Jharkhand      |             16 | Chatra, West Singhbhum, Palamau, Garhwa, East Singhbhum, Bokaro, Lohardaga, Gumla, Latehar and Hazaribagh, | Girdih, Khunti, Ranchi, Dumka, Ramgarh and Simdega |
| 6         | Madhya Pradesh |              1 | Balaghat                                                                                                   |                                                    |
| 7         | Maharashtra    |              2 | Gadchiroli and Gondia                                                                                      |                                                    |
| 8         | Orissa         |              6 | Gajapati, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Deogarh, and Sambalpur                                                     | Koraput                                            |
| 9         | Uttar Pradesh  |              1 | Sonebhadra                                                                                                 |                                                    |
| 10        | West Bengal    |              1 | Paschim Midnapur (Lalgarh Area)                                                                            |                                                    |
|           | Total          |             47 | 34                                                                                                         | 13                                                 |

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