Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana provides skill-based education to the poor Indian youths for increasing job opportunity. After the completion of the training they are offered with placements and facilities to become an entrepreneur.
With around 55 million youth in the country aged between 18-35 looking out for work opportunities, mainly in the rural sectors, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Venkaiah Naidu set up the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana.
Initiated on the 98th birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, the scheme aims to provide skill to the poor youth of the country, thereby giving them opportunities for growth.
Following the training program, youth are given placement opportunities and options to branch out as entrepreneurs. Since the scheme focuses on the poor youth of the country, the Government of India has set aside a corpus of Rs.1,500 crore to aid the cause.
The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana revolves around a three-layers implementation model. The layers are - policy making, technical support and facilitation agency. Structured around this model, youth are first identified, trained and then finally placed in companies. Furthermore, the model even reached out to monitoring their growth and sustainability in their jobs.
In order to train youth to be desirable for companies in India and around the globe, the complete training program of the individual is funded by the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana. Depending whether the individual is a resident or a non-resident and the type of skill he/she wishes to be trained in, each individual is given financial support between Rs.25,000 to more than a lakh a year.
The training lasts from a minimum of three months to a maximum of a year. Covering more than 250 working sectors, the training covers skills required for fields such as Retail, Construction, Health, Automotive, Leather, Plumbing, Electrical, Jewelery, Painting, Hospitality, etc. The goal of the training is to ensure that 75% of the participants are placed in reputed companies as soon as the training comes to an end.
In order to carry out this training, funding is given to certain PIAs by the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana that meet certain conditions:
Since its introduction, the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana has spread its wings over 33 states across India. The scheme has covered more than 600 districts in India and is closely linked with over 200 plus PIAs - employing youth in over 250 trades across 50 plus working sectors. In the Financial year 2016-2016, more than 2.7 lakh youth were trained and more than 1.3 lakh were employed. In FY 2016-2017, as of November, a lakh plus youth have been trained and 63,000 youth have been employed, a reflection of the benefit of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana for the poor rural youth of the country.
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