Lok Sabha Question No. 4010 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-10
Subject: Expenditure on Skill Development
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: RAVINDRA BABU  PANDULA, KAMLESH  PASWAN, S.P. MUDDAHANUMEGOWDA, SULTAN  AHMED, KUNWAR SARVESH  KUMAR, YERRAM VENKATA SUBBAREDDY, RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4010 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.08.2016 EXPENDITURE ON SKILL DEVELOPMENT QUESTION

4010.  DR. RAVINDRA BABU:

SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN: SHRI SULTAN AHMED: SHRI Y.V. SUBBA REDDY:

SHRI S.P. MUDDAHANUME GOWDA:

KUNWAR SARVESH KUMAR:

SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  considering  to  increase  expenditure  for  various  skill development programmes;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  payments  made  to  agencies  imparting    skill development training, scheme-wise and agency-wise during each of the last three years and the current year;
- (c) whether cases  of  misappropriation  of  funds  under  various  skill  development  schemes have come to light during the above period;
- (d) if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  monitoring  mechanism  being  implemented  by  the Government in this regard along with the steps taken to plug loopholes in implementation of skill development schemes; and
- (e) the  details  of  the  projects  sanctioned  under  the  skill  development  schemes  in  various States and the steps taken by the Government for their proper implementation?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (e) There are more than 40 schemes in 20 different Ministries which provide a variety of skill  development training programmes. During the last three years, i.e.  2015-16, 2014-15 and 2013-14, the number of trained persons (in lakh) is: 104.16, 76.11 and 76.37, respectively. The  multiple  schemes  under  different  Ministries  have  their  own  guidelines  and  there  is  no centralized record of all different programmes under different Ministries.

The Government has set up National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), under the Ministry  of  Skill  Development and Entrepreneurship, as a Public Private Partnership entity  to promote private training providers across the country.  The short term skill development training programmes are delivered through Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme, which  is  having  around  8000  numbers  of  private  training  centres.    The  details  of  funds transferred to NSDC for the purpose of Skill Development during the last three years and the current year are at Annexure-I .

Recently,  the  Union  Cabinet  in  its  meeting  on  13 th July,  2016,  has  approved  the  new version  with  modification  and  continuation  of  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Vikas  Yojana (PMKVY) as 'Skill Development Component' of umbrella PMKVY to skill one crore people over the four years (2016-2020) with an outlay of Rs.12,000 crore. The Scheme will be completely aligned to the Common Norms as notified with the approval of Cabinet on 15 th July, 2015, and amended from time to time. Disbursement of training cost to training partners will be linked to Aadhar based enrolment and biometric attendance for better transparency and targeting. Skill training  would  be  done  based  on  the  National  Skill  Qualification  Framework  (NSQF)  and industry  led  standards.    The  25%  of  physical  and  financial  target  under  the  scheme  will  be implemented through the State Governments.

Annexure-I Funds transferred to NSDC:

| S. No.   | Particulars   | 2013-14   | 2014-15   | 2015-16   |   2016-17 till 30.06.2016 |   Total |
|----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------------------------|---------|
| (i)      | Skilling      | 450       | 200       | -         |                         0 |  650    |
| (ii)     | UDAAN         | 39        | 75.06     | 45        |                         0 |  159.06 |
| (iii)    | STAR          | 585       | 415       | 0         |                         0 | 1000    |
| (iv)     | PMKVY         | -         | -         | 435       |                       500 |  935    |
| Total    | Total         | 1074      | 690       | 480       |                       500 | 2744    |

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