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programme the expansion of target group
has been made more inclusive (youth
fromMGNREGA household, household
under auto inclusion parameters as per
SECC, 2011, family member of SHG
member under NRLM etc.).
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The programme is designed to be amajor
contributor to the Prime minister’s
‘Make in India’ campaign with industry
internships, where funding support is
provided for 12 months with 75 per cent
placement guarantee.
•
The programme emphasizes monitoring
through online MIS and also concurrent
monitoring through reputed institu-
tions such as NIRD, NABCONS etc.
Post programme placement tracking
and counselling for one year has been
introduced.
The programme has a three tier imple-
mentation model with (a) DDU-GKY
unit at MORD providing policy support,
funding, facilitation and technical support;
(b) state skill mission embedded in state
rural livelihood mission is expected to
provide co-funding and also ensure proper
implementation; (c) PIAs implement the
programme by providing skill training and
placements. The strategy of the ministry
has been to move from direct implementa-
tion by the central government to further
build capacities of state governments for
implementation of DDU-GKY and to help
build coordination mechanisms at central
level to improve the skilling delivery pro-
cess. Nine states are categorised as Action
Plan states where their plans are approved
by the Ministry and the states implement
the programme. The other states are Year
Plan (YP) states where MORD supports
implementation. The state governments
are expected to undertake skill gap assess-
ment, hold job melas, migrant support
centres, develop and disseminate com-
munication materials and also provide
alumni support.
The action plans of the different states
show that most of the trainings proposed
are of threemonths duration.
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For example,
Maharashtra State Rural LivelihoodMission
will conduct skill training for 58,335 youth
during the next two years out of which
56,335 are to be trained for three months.
Similarly Karnataka has proposed training
118,173 youth out of which 113,238 will
undergo three month course. However,
1095 candidates are expected to be trained
for 12 months. How far such short term
courses improve the skill sets and enhance
productivity of the trainees is a question that
will be raised by the prospective employers.
Cost norms andwages expected:
This has
been worked out on the basis of a course of
576 hours duration in case of a three month
training only. The cost norms have been
worked on the basis of a six day week with a
minimum duration of eight hours per day.
Therefore the duration of the three month,
sixmonth, ninemonth and 12month courses
will be 576 hours, 1152 hours, 1728 hours and
2304 hours respectively. Minimum wages
expected are also related to the duration
training—
`
6000,
`
8000,
`
12,000 and
`
15,000
for the different courses. Minimum wages
for foreign placements is
`
25,000. While it is
commendable that theminimumwages have
been prescribed, there is little detail as to how
this will be ensured. There are no disclosures
in the annual report and other materials on
the past track record of wages achieved
during the Twelfth Plan.
Incentivising retention and career pro-
gression:
Additional resources are being
made available to the PIA for retention of
employment of trained candidate at the rate
of
`
3000 per person retained in employment
for 365 days. A major challenge is to assist
those already placed to progress in their
careers. This has been addressed in the form
of an additional payment to PIAs at the rate
of
`
5,000 for every person trained by the PIA
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GoI, 2015, Minutes of the Empowered
Committee held on 22nd June 2015, Ministry
of Rural Development.
ddugky/DocumentsForDownload/Minutes_EC_
meeting_22nd_June.pdf
