Lok Sabha Question No. 2542 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-17
Subject: Goal of Skilling 400 million People Under NSD Programme
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Shri Rajmohan Unnithan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2542

ANSWERED ON 17.03.2025

## GOAL OF SKILLING 400 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER NSD PROGRAMME

## 2542.  SHRI RAJMOHAN UNNITHAN:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  according  to  some  reports,  30  per  cent  of India's youth are neither employed nor in education or training;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and reasons therefor;
- (c) the details of number of people employed under the Skill India Mission;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  initiatives  to  reach  its  goal  of  skilling  400 million people under the National Skills Development (NSD) Programme;
- (e) if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) the time by which the said goal is likely to be achieved?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

- (a) & (b):  As per National Sample Survey (NSS) 79 th Round (2022-2023), the percentage of persons of age 15-29 years reported to be not in education, employment or training (NEET) at  the  all-India  level  is  25.6  percent.  This  report  also  categorizes  the  persons  who  were identified  as  NEET  by  types  of  activities  they  did  during  last  7  days  preceding  the survey.  This includes (i) seeking/available for work, (ii) engaged in voluntary work in other household/enterprise, (iii) engaged in social/political work voluntarily, (iv) attending domestic duties, (v) not able to work due to health condition, (vi) spending leisure time and (vii) others.
- (c)  to  (f):    In  order  to  improve  employability  of  youth  of  the  country,  the  Ministry  of  Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) under Skill India Mission (SIM), delivers skill, reskill  and  up-skill  training  to  youth  across  the  country  through  an  extensive  network  of  skill development  centres/institutes  under  various  schemes  viz.  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Jan Sikhshan Sansthan (JSS), National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)  and  Craftsman  Training  Scheme  (CTS)  through  Industrial  Training Institutes (ITIs).  All the Skilling schemes of MSDE are purely demand-driven and joining such courses is  a  voluntary  decision on the part of the potential trainee hence, targets are often not set. The total number of persons trained through schemes of MSDE is as under:

|   Sl. No. | Schemes                              | No. of persons trained   |
|-----------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------|
|         1 | PMKVY (FY2015-16 to December, 2024)  | 160.33 lakh              |
|         2 | JSS (FY 2018-19 to Februrary, 2025)  | 29.53 lakh               |
|         3 | NAPS (FY 2018-19 to Februrary, 2025) | 37.11 lakh               |
|         4 | CTS (2018-19 to 2023-24)             | 79.57 lakh               |

As  per  the  latest  Periodic  Labour  Force  Survey  (PLFS),  the  unemployment  rate  in  usual status of age 15 years and above has come down from 6.1% in 2017-18 to 3.2% in 2023-24.

Aim of the skill  development  programmes is to  equip  the  youth  of the  country  with  market relevant skills to get gainfully employed in wage or self employment.  Amongst the schemes of MSDE, placements were tracked in the Short-Term Training (STT) component of PMKVY in  the  first  three  versions  of  the  scheme  (PMKVY  1.0,  PMKVY  2.0  and  PMKVY  3.0) implemented  from FY 2015-16  to  FY  2021-22.  The  number  of candidates  reported  placed across the country in these three versions of PMKVY are 24,37,887. Under PMKVY4.0, the focus is on empowering trained candidates to choose their varied career path and they are suitably oriented for the same. Further, various IT tools like skill India digital hub (SIDH) also gives this opportunity.

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