Lok Sabha Question No. 2982 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-05-11
Subject: Targets for Training
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: RAMESH POKHRIYAL NISHANK, VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2982

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.05.2016

## Targets for Training

## QUESTION

## †2982. DR. RAMESH POKHRIYAL "NISHANK": SHRI VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK:

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

- (a) the  targets  fixed  by  the  Government  for  training  of  women,  backward  classes, tribals and minorities;
- (b) whether the Government has achieved last year's targets and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the  details  of  the  special  strategy  that  has  been  devised  to  encourage  women, SCs/STs and minorities;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  formulated  any  skill  development  programme according to the requirements of remote, tribal and hilly areas; and
- (e) 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 (e) Yes, Madam. The Directorate General of Training, an Attached Office under Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has fixed a target to train 8260 women including women from backward classes, tribals and minorities during 2016-17.

To  promote  skilling  of  all  the  people  across  the  Country  including  women  and socially backward classes, there are over 40 skill development schemes across various sectors  being  implemented  by  18  Central  Ministries/Departments.  The  data  on  the women,  backward  classes,  Scheduled  Castes  (SCs),  Scheduled  Tribes  (STs)  and Minorities covered under these skill development programmes is not maintained centrally. However, most of these schemes have special provisions to promote the participation in skill development programmes by all socio-economic groups which includes women and socially backward classes.

Under  the  Craftsmen  Training  Scheme,  candidates  belonging  to  SC  and  ST category  get  reservation  in  the  proportion  to  their  population  in  each  State  and  Union Territory. Further, 30% of all the seats for the course in all the Government and Private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) (Government- 2293 and Private- 10812; Total:- 13105) are  reserved for  women  candidates. Furthermore, there are 402 (Government-298 and Private-104) Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) exclusively for women with the capacity of 141907 seats.

Besides,  there  are  ten  Regional  Vocational  Training  Institutes  (RVTIs)  and  one National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) (at Noida, Uttar Pradesh) in Central Sector for Skill Development of Women across the Country.

| RVTIs   | RVTIs       | RVTIs     | RVTIs   | RVTIs          | RVTIs      |
|---------|-------------|-----------|---------|----------------|------------|
| S. No.  | State       | Place     | S. No.  | State          | Place      |
| 1       | Haryana     | Panipat   | 6       | Kerala         | Trivandrum |
| 2       | Rajasthan   | Jaipur    | 7       | Madhya Pradesh | Indore     |
| 3       | Meghalaya   | Tura      | 8       | Gujarat        | Vadodara   |
| 4       | West Bengal | Kolkata   | 9       | Uttar Pradesh  | Allahabad  |
| 5       | Karnataka   | Bengaluru | 10      | Maharashtra    | Mumbai     |

In  addition,  the  Government  has  approved  to  open  08  new  additional  Regional Vocational Training Institutes (RVTIs) for Women in the states where there is no existing RVTI.  To meet the requirements of remote, tribal and hilly areas, out of 08 new RVTIs, 02 RVTIs are being established in the States of Himachal Pradesh (Jhundla, Shimla) and Tripura (Anandanagar, Agartala). These two RVTIs have already started functioning w.e.f. August, 2015 from the temporary accommodation(s) provided by respective states.

Furthermore,  Government  has  launched  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Vikas  Yojanan (PMKVY) on 15 th July, 2015 to enable and mobilize a large number of Indian youth from all  the  socio  economic  groups  of  the  Country  to  take  up  skill  training  to  become employable and earn their livelihood. The scheme has the target to cover 24 lakh youth through fresh skill training and certification under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). As on 9 th May, 2016, 19.72 lakh candidates have been enrolled and 19.64 lakh completed the training under the scheme.

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