Question : Expenditure on Skill Development

(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?

(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 13th 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 15th 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 1074 690 480 500 2744