Vocational Education & Training Solutions

DDU-GKY is an important component of the National Skill Development Policy. As a poverty alleviation initiative, DDU-GKY proposes to develop the latent skills of the rural poor, thereby helping to create a highly skilled and productive workforce.

Project Objective

• To transform rural poor youths into an economically independent and globally relevant workforce.
• To provide wide network of training centres across India.
• To provide training to underprivileged youths of rural areas under DDU-GKY.
• To facilitate the availability of workforce by mobilizing and motivating youths to enhance their standard of living.
• To create employment linkage and career progression path for the youths.

Preferred Profile of Candidates

In order to fulfil its objective of empowering the underprivileged or deprived, DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youths between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families, as can be identified through the following projects:

• MGNREGA Worker Households (with a minimum of 15 days of completed work in the previous year)
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) Households
• Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) Card or BPL PDS Card Holding Households
• Self Help Group (SHG) Households
• NRLM – Self Help Group Households
• Special projects for special groups such as victims of trafficking, manual scavengers, trans-genders, rehabilitated bonded labour and other vulnerable groups.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Uttar Pradesh

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Madhya Pradesh

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Rajasthan

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Assam

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Odisha

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) at Punjab

About the Project: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship outcome-based skill training scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). PMKVY is a unique initiative by the Government of India that aims to offer Indian youths meaningful, industry relevant and skill based training, enabling them to secure a job for a better future.

Objectives

• To encourage skill development of youths by providing monetary rewards for successful completion of approved training programs. Specifically, the scheme aims to encourage standardization in the certification process and to initiate a process of creating a registry of skills.  
• To provide monetary awards for skill certification to boost employment opportunities of the youths by increasing their productivity through skill training.          
• To increase productivity of the existing workforce and align skill training with the actual needs of the country.
• To encourage standardization of the certification process and put in place the foundation for creating a registry of skills.
• To benefit 10 million youths over a period of four years (2016- 2020).
• To enable and mobilize a large number of youths to take up industry designed quality skill training and get prepared for jobs to earn a livelihood.

Ist Phase

IInd Phase

Target yet to be allocated

UDAAN, the Special Industry Initiative (SII) for J&K is funded by Ministry of Home Affairs and implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The program is a part of the overall initiative for addressing economic issues in J&K.

Objective

The ultimate objective of the program is to focus on the youths of Jammu & Kashmir; (J&K) who are graduates, post graduates or have done three years Diploma in  Engineering; to access meaningful and gainful employment opportunities. Once each trainee is assessed for his job-readiness, he/she will be sent for interviews/placement opportunities.

Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) have mandated to implement the short term skill development programs in the State. The organised/ unorganized sector is facing number of challenges with respect to skill development. Facilities for training in informal sector are grossly inadequate.

Objective  

To provide training to marginalized youths of Rajasthan under Employment Linked Skill Training Program through RSLDC of Rajasthan Government, for skill development and career progression.

In Bihar a comprehensive and long term strategy for skill development is being developed by the Government of Bihar. Accordingly, the Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) was constituted in the year 2010 with the vision to increase the capacity & capability of the system to deliver quality skill training and professional knowledge to the youths to enhance their employability and bridge the skill deficit with a view to meet the growing demand for skilled manpower.

Objective

• To provide training to underprivileged youths of Bihar through Bihar Skill Development Centres ( BSDCs) for training of Kushal Yuva Program.  The Program is to be implemented in 6 blocks of Bihar
• To facilitate generation of adequate employment opportunities through a policy frame work.
• To encourage and facilitate skill training for the youths of Bihar.
• To monitor generation of employment in different sectors.
• To facilitate launching of training programs for both uneducated and educated unemployed people for up-gradation of their skills.
• To formulate area and trade specific strategies for maximizing employment opportunities on a sustainable basis in the state supported by private sector.
• To facilitate a coordinated approach in achieving the above objectives for maximizing the benefits over time and space and in reaching out the most needy sections of the population.

About the Project

Recruit – Train – Deploy (R-T-D) Model Project

• Candidates from Bihar will be recruited,
• Will be trained on specific trades (as per industry requirement)
• Then the candidates will be deployed at the workplace

Salient Features

• Leading industry players from within and outside India, reputed placement agencies to set-up
• Recruitment cum skill development Centres
• Customized industry specific training
• Assurance of employment prior to the conduct of training
• At-least 80% of certified candidates in a batch to be deployed
• Central Monitoring of progress of each candidate through the web portal
• Special focus on people with disability  

• Unique skill training program to enhance the employability of the youths of Bihar and act as a value add to the various domain specific training endeavors.
• Kushal Yuva Programme (KYP) is a part of one of the “7 commitments” namely “Aarthik Hal, Yuvaon ko Bal” and is a flagship scheme of the Government of Bihar under its Good Governance Initiative.
• Target Group includes youths of 15-25 age group, who have passed class 10th or class 12th, have dropped out of formal education and are looking for jobs.
• Course duration is 240 hours.
• The course curriculum would include three components, Soft Skills for 40 hours, Communication Skills for 80 hours and Basic Computer Literacy for 120 hours.
• E-Learning mode shall be used for training delivery.
• Training of Trainers (ToT) followed by certification will be carried out to get quality trainers and maintain uniformity across Centres.
• Sequential mode of learning prohibiting any skipping of sessions.
• Central monitoring of step by step progress of each candidate through the web portal.
• Inbuilt/Integrated Online Assessment & Certification Process.

Salient Features

• Refundable security deposit
  • INR 1000 will be taken as refundable security deposit (to be paid to BSDM through the SDC operator) from those candidates who are not covered under Self-Help Allowance (SHA) Program.
  • For those youths in the age group of 20-25, who have opted for and have been approved for grant of Self Help Allowance (SHA), the last 5 months payment of payable SHA shall be released to them only after they successfully complete the Kushal Yuva Training Program.
• Batch size:
  • Min 20 candidates per batch
  • Max 30 candidates per batch
• Training calendar: Any training batch will be able to start on 1st of the Month or 15th of the month. In case, any of these dates is a holiday the common batch starting date applicable will be the next working day.

The Government of Punjab accords highest priority to skill development of its youths and to make them employable. The main objective of Punjab Skill Development Mission is to enable a large number of youths to take up industry relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Safeducate is bridging the gap between the skilled people required in Industry and the unemployed youths by ensuring that the right student chooses the right course according to his/her academic background, aptitude and skill-set.

Punjab Skill Development Mission involves following steps to ensure the quality of the training provided:

1. Regular Skill Gap/Demand Assessment Study

2. Social Mobilization of Candidates for Skill Development Schemes.

3. Selection/Empanelment of Skill Training Partners

4. Finalization of Courses and Curricula for Skill Development Schemes

5. Monitoring and Evaluation of Training Progress

6. Assessment and Certification of Training Programs

Eligibility of Candidates

1. Candidates should belong to poor rural youths in the age group 15-35. Upper age for women candidates, people with disabilities, transgender and other special group like rehabilitated bounded labour etc. shall be 45 years.
2. Youths from Below Poverty Line (BPL), MANREGA Worker Household with at least 15 days work in the previous financial year by any of its family members, household with RSBY Card, Antyodaya Anna Yojna/BPL PDS Cards, youths from household where a family member is a member of SHG under NRLM and the youths from household covered under auto inclusion parameter as per SECC.
3. Minimum 50% SC&ST, minimum 15% minorities and minimum 3% differently-abled and 1/3rd of the people covered should be women.

Haryana Skill Development Mission (HSDM) was registered on 4th May, 2015; under the Haryana Registration & Regulations of Societies Act, 2012; to function as an autonomous organization under Department of Technical Education, Haryana.

 Major Project Objective

The mission shall function as a non-profit, independent and autonomous organization for implementation of skill development mission in the State. The mission shall have the following specific objectives:

(i) Increase employability of the youths and empower them to take part in the economic growth of Haryana and India through skill training in modern and market driven professions at reasonable cost and monitoring its delivery and thereby reducing unemployment, poverty and socio-economic inequality.

(ii) To provide skill training to the students passing out from schools, school dropouts, unemployed youths, informal sector workers, women and other disadvantaged groups.

(iii) To inspect and monitor the quality of training imparted.

(iv) To map demand for skill sets in the market and formulate programs to meet such demands through high quality skill training.

(v) Develop self employment and entrepreneurial skills for the youths of Haryana.

(vi) To act as a platform for job seekers and provide assistance in getting self-employment.

Date of Signing of MoU – 29-02-2016

Signing Partners – MoU signed between HSDM and Safeducate as Implementing Partner