Foundation day of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) celebrated

Foundation day of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) celebrated

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Welfare Schemes

In news

• The foundation day of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) was recently celebrated as “Kaushal Se Kal Badlenge” (25th September).
• Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Key takeaways 

• Agripreneurship (entrepreneurship in agriculture) Programme was inaugurated.
• Guidelines regarding Captive Employment under DDU-GKY were released.
• Guidelines for Promotion of Integrated Farming Cluster (IFC) were also released
• Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for capacity building of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)/StartUps and providing incubation support in rural areas was signed.

Do you know?

• Captive employers are businesses which can employ 500 or more in their own organisation or one of their subsidiaries and have suitable in-house training facilities.
• Integrated Farming is a combined approach aimed at efficient sustainable resource management for increased productivity in the cropping system.
• It has multiple objectives of sustainability, food security, farmer’s security and poverty reduction by involving livestock, vermicomposting, organic farming, etc.