Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana - PMKVY | प्रधान मंत्री कौशल विकास योजना

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is a skill development initiative scheme of the government of India for recognition and standardization of skills.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

The aim of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana scheme is to encourage aptitude towards employable skill and to increase working efficiency of probable and existing daily wage earner, by giving monetary awards and rewards and by providing quality training to them.Average award amount per person has been kept as ₹8000 (US$110).Those wage earners already possessing a standard level of skill will be given recognition as per scheme and average award amount for them is ₹2000 to ₹2500.In the initial year a target to distribute ₹15 billion (US$12 million) has been laid down for the scheme.Training Programmes has been worked out on the basis of National Occupation Standard (NOS) and qualification packs specifically developed in various sectors of skills.For this qualification plans and quality plans have been developed by various Sector Skills Councils (SSC) created with participation of industries. National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has been made coordinating and driving agency for the same.

An outlay of ₹120 billion (US$1.7 billion) has been approved by the cabinet of this project.The scheme has a target to train 1 crore Indian youth from 2016-20. As of 18 July 2016 17.93 lakh candidates were trained out of 18 lakh who enrolled from the scheme.

What is Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana? 

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is a flagship scheme of the ministry of skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MDSE) implemented by National Skill Development Corporation.The objectives of the skill certification scheme is to enable a large number of India youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under recognition of prior learning (RPL).