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World Youth Skill Day Programme
Part of: GS Prelims and GS -III – Skill development
In news Indian Prime Minister recently addressed World Youth Skill Day Programme.
Key notes from the address
- Skill development of the new generation is a national need and is the foundation of Aatmnirbhar Bharat
- More than 1.25 crore youth have been trained under ‘Pradhanmantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna’
- India providing smart and skilled man-power solutions to the world should be at the core of our strategy of skilling our youth
- Mission of skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling the youth should go on relentlessly
- Skill India Mission is fulfilling visionary dream of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar by skilling weaker sections
Skill Development Programmes of India
| Name | Year | Type | Objective |
| Industrial Training Centres (ITIs) | 1950 | Central Sector | To expand and modernize the existing Long-Term Training ecosystem in India. |
| Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) | 2015 | Central Sector | To provide free skill training avenues to youths of India. |
| National Career Service Project | 2015 | Central Sector | To offer free online career skills training through its National Career Service (NCS) project for job-seekers registered with it. |
| Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE) | 2016 | World Bank assisted-Government of India project | To improve the performance of ITIs. To improve the relevance and efficiency of skills training provided through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and apprenticeships. |
| Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana (Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan) | 2016 | Centrally sponsored | To create an enabling ecosystem for Entrepreneurship development through Entrepreneurship education and training; Advocacy and easy access to entrepreneurship support network and Promoting social enterprises for inclusive growth. |
| Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood (SANKALP) | 2018 | Centrally Sponsored Scheme collaborated with the World Bank. | District-level skilling ecosystem through convergence and coordination. |
| Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS) | 2019 | Central sector | To provide industry apprenticeship opportunities to the general graduates exiting in April 2019 through the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS). |
| Atma Nirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM) | 2020 | To help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities. | |
| Skill Management and Accreditation of Training Centres (SMART) | It provides a single window IT application that focuses on the accreditation, grading, Affiliation and Continuous monitoring of the Training Centres (TC) in the skill ecosystem. |
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