In line with the objective of making India the ‘skill capital of the world’, the National Skill Development Corporation has provided skills training to 13,49,742 people in its first three years of operations. It has also created a capacity to train 7.5 crore people over the next 10 years.
The 122 ventures that it has approved till date are operating in 358 districts through 1,481 fixed and 1,101 mobile centres across the country, NSDC said in a statement.
To ensure that all the candidates are trained on industry-defined standards, NSDC has approved 29 Sector Skill Councils, which have standardised 501 job roles in different sectors till date.
NSDC is also implementing the Udaan scheme, targeted at the youth in Jammu and Kashmir, under which 43 companies have committed to train 61,113 candidates over the next five years.
Till date, 6,061 candidates have been selected by 35 companies.
S Ramadorai, Chairman, NSDC said, “ If you see the skills development agenda of the government, skilling our youth, giving them employment and promoting entrepreneurship is absolutely critical. And there is a systemic national level change that’s happening to catalyse and increase the number of skilled professionals.”
In the previous general budget, the Union Government had announced the National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme, branded as STAR (Standard Training Assessment and Reward) under which NSDC was to train 10 lakh youth in certain skills in the first year.
The scheme was launched by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on August 16. It was run on a pilot basis for the first month and was subsequently launched across the country on September 16.