Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

Indian government program

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
प्रधान कौशल विकास योजना

Country	India
Ministry	Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Launched	16 July 2015; 8 years ago (2015-07-16) New Delhi
Status	Active
Website	www.pmkvyofficial.org

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) or otherwise known as Pradhan Mantri Youth Training Program ^[1]^[2] is a skill development initiative scheme of the Government of India for recognition and standardisation of skills.^[3]

The aim of the PMKVY scheme is to encourage aptitude towards employable skills and to increase working efficiency of probable and existing daily wage earners, by giving monetary awards and rewards and by providing quality training to them. Average award amount per person has been kept as ₹8,000 (US$100). Those wage earners already possessing a standard level of skill will be given recognition as per scheme and average award amount for them is ₹2000 to ₹2500. In the initial year, a target to distribute ₹15 billion (US$190 million) has been laid down for the scheme. Training programmes have been worked out on the basis of National Occupational Standards (NOS) and qualification packs specifically developed in various sectors of skills. For this qualification plans and quality plans have been developed by various Sector Skill Councils (SSC) created with participation of Industries. National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has been made coordinating and driving agency for the same.^[4] The training given to the youth under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is free, there is no need for the youth to pay any fee for this.^[5]

An outlay of ₹120 billion (US$1.5 billion) has been approved by the cabinet for this project.^[6] The scheme has a target to train 1 crore Indian youth from 2016-20.^[6] As of 18 July 2016, 17.93 lakh candidates were trained out of 18 lakh who enrolled for the scheme.^[4]

References

^ "Scheme Document of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana" (PDF). Pmkvyofficial.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)". Pmkvyofficial.org. 4 December 2015. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Krishna, Prabodh (7 July 2017). "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana: Boon Or Bane". Businessworld.
^ ^a ^b "17.93 lakh candidates trained under PMKVY as on July 18", Business Standard, 21 July 2016
^ "Empowering Youth: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana Offers Free Training Opportunities". Prabhat Khabar. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ ^a ^b "PM Modi-led Cabinet approves key decisions – from skilling 1 crore youth to NBCC disinvestment", The Financial Express, 13 July 2016