Lok Sabha Question No. 3954 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-18
Subject: Employment Generation from Skill Development Programme
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Shri Dharmendra Yadav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3954

ANSWERED ON 18.08.2025

## EMPLOYMENT GENERATION FROM SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

† 3954.  SHRI DHARMENDRA YADAV

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

- (a) the  percentage  of  trained  Scheduled  Castes,  Scheduled  Tribes  and  Other  Backward Classes  beneficiaries  secured  gainful  employment  (wage  employment  or  self  employment) under skill development programmes and average income earned by them in Uttar Pradesh, sector- wise;
- (b) the details of specific support such as placement assistance, entrepreneurship guidance or access to loan provided to the beneficiaries of the said communities after completing the skill development training in Uttar Pradesh; and
- (c) the  number  of  persons  belonging  to  the  said  communities  set  up  their  enterprises successfully after completing their training and got support from the MSDE schemes along with the  average  loan  amount  received  by  them  through  the  schemes  like  Start-up  India  in collaboration with financial institutions in Uttar Pradesh?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a): Under  the  Government  of  India's  Skill  India  Mission  (SIM)  ,  the  Ministry  of  Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) delivers skill, re-skill and up-skill training through an extensive network of skill development centres 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), to all the sections of the society across the country including Scheduled castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The SIM aims at enabling youth of India to get future ready, equipped with industry relevant skills.

Category-wise details of candidates trained under various schemes of MSDE in the State of Uttar Pradesh are as under:

| Name of the Scheme                          | Overall   | SC       | ST     | OBC       |
|---------------------------------------------|-----------|----------|--------|-----------|
| PMKVY (Since 2015-2016 to 30 th June, 2025) | 25,06,438 | 3,79,793 | 22,315 | 11,93,856 |
| JSS (Since 2018-19 to 30 th June, 2025)     | 5,75,064  | 1,83,672 | 8,606  | 2,38,672  |
| NAPS (Since 2018-19 to 30 th June, 2025)    | 3,03,818  | 42,554   | 2664   | 1,28,445  |
| CTS (Sessions 2018 to 2024)                 | 21,61,826 | 6,12,164 | 17,167 | 11,72,595 |

Amongst  the  schemes  of  MSDE,  placements  were  tracked  under  the  Short-Term  Training component  of  PMKVY  in  the  first  three  versions  (PMVY1.0,  PMKVY  2.0  and  PMKVY  3.0) implemented  from  2015-16  to  2021-22.  Under  PMKVY  (1.0  to  3.0),  3,38,882  candidates (including 52,367 SC, 1,189 ST and 1,65,458 OBC candidates) were reported placed in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

(b) & (c): MSDE has launched Skill India Digital Hub (SIDH) a unified platform that integrates skilling, education, employment, and entrepreneurship ecosystems to provide a life-long array of services to key stakeholders. Details of the trained candidates are available on SIDH portal for connecting with potential employers. Through SIDH, candidates can have access to jobs and apprenticeship opportunities. Further, Rozgar Melas and Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Melas (PMNAMs) have been organized to facilitate the placements opportunities to the certified candidates.

To  promote  an  inclusive  entrepreneurial  ecosystem  through  entrepreneurship  education, training, and advocacy, Government of India has inter-alia taken the following initiatives:

- (i) Implementation  of  schemes/programmes  for  the  entrepreneurship  promotion  like  PM's Employment Generation Programme; MSE-Cluster Development Programme; Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries; A Scheme for Promoting Innovation, Rural Industry & Entrepreneurship; Startup India; Startup Village Entrepreneurship Program; PM Formalisation of Micro Food  Processing Enterprises; Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs Scheme, etc.
- (ii)   With intent to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation, startups and encouraging investments in the Startup ecosystem of the country, the Government launched the Startup India initiative in January 2016. The flagship Schemes namely, Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS),  Startup  India  Seed  Fund  Scheme  (SISFS)  and  Credit  Guarantee  Scheme  for Startups (CGSS) support Startups at various stages of their business cycle.
- (iii)   MSDE through its autonomous institutions, i.e, National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), Noida and Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati conducts Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP) and Entrepreneurship  Development  Programme (EDP) to  promote  entrepreneurship across the country including special areas like northeastern region and aspirational districts.
- (iv)   MSDE in collaboration with the Women Entrepreneurship Platform of NITI Aayog, launched the  Swavalambini  -  a  Women  Entrepreneurship  Programme  in  February  2025  in  the Northeastern  States  of  Assam,  Meghalaya,  Mizoram  and  also  in  Uttar  Pradesh  and Telangana. The programme aims to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset among female students through EAP and EDP to be implemented through NIESBUD, Noida and IIE, Guwahati.

To provide access to credit/loan to youth for establishing business enterprises or startups, the Government implements various schemes like Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), Start-Up India, Stand-Up India, PM Vishwakarma, etc.

- (i)   Pradhan  Mantri  Mudra  Yojana  (PMMY)  was  launched  on  08 th   April  2015  to  provide collateral free institutional credit to any individual, who is otherwise eligible to take a loan and has a business plan for small business enterprise. He/she can avail loan up to Rs. 20 lakh  under  the  Scheme  for  income  generating  activities  in  the  manufacturing,  trading, services, and the activities allied to agriculture sector. Under PMMY, both term loan and working capital requirements can be met. Under PMMY, approx 535 Lakh loan accounts have been created and Rs. 3.45 Lakh Cr amount has been disbursed up to June 2025 in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
- (ii)   PM Vishwakarma, launched on 17 th  September 2023, provides end to end holistic support to traditional artists and craftspeople engaged in 18 identified trades through access to skill training, collateral free credit, modern tools, market linkage support and incentive for digital transactions.  Under  PM  Vishwakarma,  10,741  loan  accounts  of  amount  Rs  97.60  Cr amount was sanctioned up to June 2025 in the state of Uttar Pradesh
- (iii)  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  -  National  Urban  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM)  was implemented up to 30 th  September 2024 with an aim of reducing poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities. Under Self employment programme (SEP) component of DAY-NULM, financial assistant was provided to individuals/groups of urban poor for setting
- up gainful self-employment ventures/ micro-enterprises, suited to their skills, aptitude and local  conditions.   Under  SEP  component  of  Day-NULM,  90,188  beneficiaries  were registered and Rs 1151.76 Cr had been disbursed up to September 2024 in state of Uttar
- Pradesh. (iv) Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS), launched in October 2022, aims to ease access to early-stage debt requirements for startups. The objective of CGSS is to provide guarantees  up  to  a  specified  limit  against  credit  instruments  extended  by  Member Institutions for startup financing. Under CGSS, 25 loan accounts and Rs 45.85 Cr amount has been covered under the guarantee up to June 2025 in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (v)  Stand-Up India Scheme launched on 5th April, 2016 aims to promote entrepreneurship among the SC/ST and Women by facilitating bank loans of value between Rs.10 lakh and Rs.1  crore  for  setting  up  greenfield  enterprises  in  trading,  manufacturing  and  services sector. Apart from linking prospective borrowers with banks for loans, the online portal provides guidance to prospective SC, ST and Women entrepreneurs in their endeavour to set up business enterprises, starting from training to filling up of loan applications as per bank requirements. Under Stand-Up India, 28,674 loan has been sanctioned up to March
- 2025 in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

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