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implemented by 20 different ministries/
departments of Government of India as
indicated in Table 6.4. These include wage
employment as well as self-employment. A
ministry-wise list of targets and achievement
in skill development is provided inAnnex 6.1.
The major ministries/agencies for skill
development for 2014–15 as per targets
set are: NSDC (3.3 million), Ministry of
Agriculture (2.2 millions), Ministry of
Labour and Employment (1.62 million),
Ministry/
Department/
Organisation
Key schemes/Programmes/Institutions with a provision for vocational education
and training programme
Projections
of trained
individuals
in 2022
(in million)
HRD Higher
Education
Vocationalisation of secondary education
: It has created infrastructure of
21,000 sections in 9,619 schools and a capacity of about 1 million students at the
12th level.
Community polytechnic scheme
: Acts a focal point to promote the transfer of
science and technology to the rural sector.
Jan Shikshan Sansthan
: It has 157 vocational training centres that are run by
NGOs offering more than 250 courses.
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Agriculture
Providing training in agriculture extension, training in the use of agricultural
implements and machinery, soil conservation. A number of ongoing schemes
and programmes of the Ministry of Agriculture have an inbuilt component
of capacity building and skill development training of farmers. At least 16
different missions/programmes have such components.
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Most are aimed at self-
employment and per person budget is also very low at
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540 in 2012–13 but was
only
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97 in 2013–14.
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20
Textiles
Decentralised training programme with 24 weavers’ service centres, 13 power
loom centers and many other boards and councils. Apparel Export Promotion
Council.
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Department of
Heavy Industry
Counselling, retraining and redeployment of rationalised workers of CPSEs.
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Department of
Information
Technology
Conducts courses in the field of electronics, telecommunications, IT, process
control and instrumentation.
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Food Processing
Industries
Training courses run by various research institutes such as: Central Food
Technology Research Institute, Paddy Processing Research Centre, Council of
Entrepreneurial Development Programme, Establishment of food processing
and training centers.
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Source:
Presentation by Government of Tamil Nadu on National level policy on skill development, Global Investors
meet, September 2015
(Continued)
Table 6.4:
Persons trained by different ministries for last four years
Number of persons (millions)
Year
Target
Achievement
% of annual target
2011–12 (13 ministries)
4.65
4.57
98%
2012–13 (19 ministries)
7.25
5.19
72%
2013–14 (21 ministries)
7.34
7.64
104%
2014–15 (21 ministries)
10.51
7.61
72%
*
Source:
Answer to the Parliament Question on 25th November, 2014. Available at
in/archieve/others/2014/dec/d2014122401.pdf
Answer to Parliamentary question No. 858 on 30 April 2015 in Rajya Sabha.
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Answer to starred question no. 72 in Lok Sabha.
Available at
/
lsq15/15/as72.htm
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Rajya Sabha, Unstarred Question No. 1772 on
skill development and training programme for farmers
answered on 13 March 2015.
Ministry of MSME and Ministry of Housing
and Urban poverty alleviation, (0.65 mil-
lion each), Ministry of Electronic and Info
Technology (0.61 million) and Ministry of
Rural Development (0.56 million). Overall,
as of February 2015, approximately 5,872,800
