(a) whether the Government has committed to improve digitalization and improve skill development in the youth and if so, the details thereof; and
(b) the details of the Digital Skill Development Training Centres being established in each State, the State-wise details thereof?
(a) Ministry has taken various measures and interventions to promote digitalization in the implementation of flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) for promoting skill development in the country. Scheme promotes digitalization under two fronts namely digitalization of the skill development training process and provision of digital training to candidates. Under Skill development training process, digitalization achieved with the introduction of SMART portal as one stop solution for all centre accreditation and affiliation process, SDMS for monitoring of fund disbursement, Assessment Apps for assessment of candidates, Skill Up App for mobilization of candidates, Digi-Locker for integration of candidates and their digital certificates, Labour Market Information System (LMIS) for repository of digital employment actions details of the skilled candidates and socio-economy data etc. In the domain of training to candidates, a 40 hours top up module for training on using digital facilities including cashless payment facilities, courses on digital skills ranging from Android developer to mobile software repairer.
Additionally, other interventions also made towards digitalization in PMKVY like course content, Direct Benefit Transfer, Aadhaar linkage of trainers and trainees, Biometric attendance of candidate etc have been ensured. In addition, for training module on digital issues, Ministry is also encouraging all TCs for conducting training cum awareness classes on digital/cashless transaction training module.
(b) All the affiliated TCs under PMKVY are compatible to facilitate various training programme using digital platform. NSDC as implementation agency has facilitated expert outsourced agencies to formulate and implement PMKVY scheme in various skilling process using digitalization concepts.