Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
NSDM envisages to train a minimum of 300 million skilled people by the year 2022
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26 JUL 2021 6:28PM by PIB Delhi
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) to provide the overall institutional framework to rapidly implement and scale up the skill development efforts across India. NSDM envisages totrain a minimum of 300 million skilled people by the year 2022.
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship promotes establishment of model and aspirational skill centres known as PradhanMantriKaushal Kendra (PMKK) in every district for imparting skill training throughout the country in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
As on 30.06.2021, 812 PMKKs have been allocated across the country, out of which 721 PMKKs have been established.
Under PradhanMantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY), short term training (STT) is being imparted through empanelled training centres (TCs) including PMKKs. As on 10.07.2021, 3,415 TCs are operational across the country that includes 721 PMKKs. Targets to TCs are being allocated for approved job roles as per extant guidelines of the scheme and training is being imparted in batch size of maximum 30 candidates.
The information was given by the Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, ShriDharmendraPradhan in a written reply in the LokSabha today.
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