The document discusses India's Skill India program, which aims to train 500 million people in various skills by 2020. It was launched in 2015 to address India's need to develop skills among its large youth population and growing workforce. The objectives are to create opportunities for youth development and expand sectors for skills training. Key features include an emphasis on skills for employment, training programs aligned with international standards, and certifying skills attainment. The program aims to make skills training more standardized, need-based, and accessible across rural and urban areas.

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Skill India Programme

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Contents
1. What is Skill India Programme
2. Why need for Skill India?
3. Objectives
4. Features
5. How it is different from other Programmes?
6. Advantages

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Skill India Programme – What it is?
1) Launched in July 2015. An initiative of Govt. of India to empower the youth of the
country with skill sets which make them more employable and more productive
2) For the first time since independence, a Ministry for Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has been formed to focus on enhancing employability of the
youth through skill development
3) Skill India has the responsibility for ensuring implementation of Common norms
across all skill development programs in the country so that they are all standardized
and aligned to common objective
4) Skill India offers courses across 40 sectors in the country which are aligned to the
standards recognised by both, the industry and the government under the National Skill
Qualification Framework
5) Programme tag ‘Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat’ means skilled India, Capable India

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Skill India Programme – Need?
1) Population set to rise to 1.3 billion by 2020, out of which 62% are in the working age of
(15-59 years)
2) About 12 million persons are expected to join the workforce every year. This trend is
expected to continue until 2040
3) Out of 4 lakhs trained (approx.) annually, only 35% of them get placed into market
4) Only 10% of the total workforce in the country receives some kind of skills training
5) Further, 80% of the entrants into the workforce do not have the opportunity for skill
training. Out of 23 million jobs created between 2005 and 2012, only one-third women
got jobs
6) Aggravated by the fact that skill training efforts cut across multiple sectors and
require the involvement of diverse stakeholders

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Skill India Programme - Objectives
1) Create opportunities, space and scope for the development of the talents of the
Indian youth
2) Develop more sectors for skill development
3) Providing training and skill development to 500 million youth by 2020, covering each
and every village

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Skill India Programme - Features
1) Emphasis is to skill the youths in such a way so that they get employment
2) Provides training, support and guidance for all occupations that were of traditional
type like carpenters, cobblers, welders, blacksmiths, masons, nurses, tailors, weavers
etc.
3) The training programmes would be on the lines of international level so that the
youths of our country can not only meet the domestic demands but also of other
countries like the US, Japan, China, Germany, Russia and those in the West Asia
4) Standardise and certify the training process
5) Tailor-made, need-based programmes like language and communication skills, life
and positive thinking skills, personality development skills, management skills,
behavioural skills, including job and employability skills

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Skill India Programme - Uniqueness
1) New ministry hence new approach for skill development
2) Youth who are jobless, college and school dropouts, along with the educated
ones, from rural and urban areas, all will be given value addition skills
3) The new ministry will be the certifying agency. Certificates will be issued to those
who complete a particular skill or programme and this certificate has to be
recognized by all public and private agencies and entities, including overseas
organisations

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Skill India Programme - Advantages
1) Improved productivity and give direction through proper skill development
2) Development of skills, at an young age, right at the school level, is very essential to
channelize them for proper job opportunities
3) Every job aspirant would be given training in soft skills to lead a proper and decent
life
4) Skill development would reach the rural and remote areas also
5) Corporate educational institutions, non-government organizations, Government,
academic institutions, and society would help in the development of skills of the youths
so that better results are achieved in the shortest time possible

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