(a) the details of programmes and activities undertaken so far by the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA);
(b) the targets set and achievements made in skill development since its inception;
(c) the details of the shortfall in achievements, if any, along with the reasons therefor; and
(d) the measures being undertaken to achieve the targets?
(a) to (d) National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) has undertaken various activities like anchor and operationalize National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), develop National Qualifications Register (NQR) which is a repository of all approved qualifications, develop a National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF), create and maintain a national data base related to skill development through a dynamic Labour Market Information System etc.
The Government is implementing around 40 programmes through more than 20 Central Ministries/Departments for providing a variety of skill development training programmes in the country. Year wise details of the number of persons trained from 2011-12 to 2017-18 are at Annexure.
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PMKVY), the flagship program of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was launched in 2015 to mobilize youth to take up skill training with the aim of increasing productivity and aligning the training and certification to the needs of the country. Owing to success of PMKVY 1.0 (2015-16) wherein more than 19 lakh candidates were trained against the target of 24 lakh, the scheme was re- launched as PMKVY 2.0 (2016-2020) and 31.12 lakh (appx.) have been trained so far.
Skill Development is a shared responsibility of all the stakeholders. The Ministry is working as a catalyst in this entire skilling landscape, in co-ordination with all Central Ministries and State Governments and private institutions, to meet the target of skilling in the country at scale with speed.
Annexure
Year wise details of number of youth trained by various Ministries/agencies of GoI as referred to in the reply of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question no.744.
Year Target (In lakh) Achievement (In lakh)
2011-12 46.53 45.68
2012-13 72.51 51.88
2013-14 73.42 76.37
2014-15 105.08 76.11
2015-16 125.68 104.16
2016-17 117.2 90.78
2017-18 96.33 87