Lok Sabha Question No. 563 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-04-27
Subject: Allocation of Funds
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 563 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.04.2016

## ALLOCATION OF FUNDS

## †563. SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY:

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

(a)  the  details  of  the  funds  allocated  and  spent  by  the  Government  to  organise conferences and to set up training centres for skill development during the last three years and the current year, State-wise/ Union-Territory-wise;

(b) whether the Government has fixed/ proposes to fix any target for setting up skill development  centres/running  the  training  centres  and  to  generate  employment opportunities in the backward areas of Jharkhand and Bihar; and

(c) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY)

(a) to (c) National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)  provides financial assistance to Training Partners. Loan is one of the mode of such assistance. NSDC has disbursed soft loan to 157 training partners during last three years as under:-

| Number of Training Partners   | Purpose    |   2013-14 (Rs. in crore) |   2014-15 (Rs. in crore) |   2015-16 (Rs. in crore) |
|-------------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| 148                           | Training   |                   232.83 |                   125.38 |                   118.86 |
| 9                             | Innovation |                     3.93 |                    10.4  |                     3.71 |
| Total                         |            |                   236.76 |                   135.78 |                   122.57 |

During 2015-16, an amount of Rs 20 crore was released to NSDC for Skill India  Campaign.  A  state/union  territory  wise  list  of  NSDC's  Operational  Training Centres is given at Annexure.

NSDC has been mandated to set up Model Training Centers in each district of States/UTs  including  Bihar  and  Jharkhand  to  run  industry  driven  courses  of  high quality  with  focus  on  employability  and  hence  create  an  aspirational  value  for vocational training all across India. An amount of Rs. 75 crore has been sanctioned during 2015-16 for setting up of Model Training Centres.

## Annexure List list of NSDC's Operational Training Centres, (state/union territory wise) as on 31 st January, 2016 .

| State                  |    | Fixed centres   | Mobile centres   |   Grand Total |
|------------------------|----|-----------------|------------------|---------------|
| Andhra Pradesh         | s  | 63              | 6                |            69 |
| Assam                  |    | 59              | 1                |            60 |
| Bihar                  |    | 123             | 5                |           128 |
| Chandigarh             |    | 6               | 1                |             7 |
| Chhattisgarh           |    | 599             | 2                |           601 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli |    | 1               |                  |             1 |
| Delhi                  |    | 92              | 22               |           114 |
| Goa                    |    | 5               |                  |             5 |
| Gujarat                |    | 126             | 5                |           131 |
| Haryana                |    | 246             | 9                |           255 |
| Himachal Pradesh       |    | 213             | 5                |           218 |
| Jammu and Kashmir      |    | 13              | 5                |            18 |
| Jharkhand              |    | 39              | 7                |            46 |
| Karnataka              |    | 222             | 31               |           253 |
| Kerala                 |    | 141             | 71               |           212 |
| Lakshadweep            |    |                 | 1                |             1 |
| Madhya Pradesh         |    | 471             | 8                |           479 |
| Maharashtra            |    | 312             | 26               |           338 |
| Manipur                |    | 4               |                  |             4 |
| Meghalaya              |    | 7               |                  |             7 |
| Mizoram                |    | 4               |                  |             4 |
| Nagaland               |    | 11              |                  |            11 |
| Odisha                 |    | 113             | 94               |           207 |
| Puducherry             |    | 3               |                  |             3 |
| Punjab                 |    | 220             | 4                |           224 |
| Rajasthan              |    | 189             | 21               |           210 |
| Sikkim                 |    | 19              |                  |            19 |
| Tamil Nadu             |    | 109             | 28               |           137 |
| Telangana              |    | 70              | 6                |            76 |
| Tripura                |    | 9               |                  |             9 |
| Uttar Pradesh          |    | 288             | 20               |           308 |
| Uttarakhand            |    | 15              | 3                |            18 |
| West Bengal            |    | 229             | 13               |           242 |

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