PM Narendra Modi to launch Skill India Campaign today(Watch Live 3:45 PM on Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live )
Pushing ahead with its ambitious Skill India mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana' on Wednesday to create skilled manpower at grass-root level by providing them vocational, technical and skill development education.
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These include a redesigned Model Skill Loan Scheme, Skill Card for persons certified under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and the new National Policy for Skill Development.
Modi will formally launch the programmes at a mega event on July 15 -- the World Youth Skills Day.
PM's ambitious Skill India programme, being launched under National Skill Development Mission, would impart skill training to 24 lakh youth over the next year and trained candidates would be awarded with incentives.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister had cleared an institutional framework for the National Skills Mission, and also approved the first integrated national policy for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship.
The mission will have a three-tiered, high powered decision making structure, with its governing council being chaired by the Prime Minister.
The new National Policy for Skill Development policy is the country's first integrated national scheme for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship at a large scale and was recently approved by the Union Cabinet.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
It acknowledges the need for an effective roadmap for promotion of entrepreneurship as the key to a successful skills strategy.
The previous National Policy on Skill Development was formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2009 and provided for a review after five years to align the policy framework with emerging national and international trends.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
These include a redesigned Model Skill Loan Scheme, Skill Card for persons certified under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and the new National Policy for Skill Development.
Modi will formally launch the programmes at a mega event on July 15 -- the World Youth Skills Day.
PM's ambitious Skill India programme, being launched under National Skill Development Mission, would impart skill training to 24 lakh youth over the next year and trained candidates would be awarded with incentives.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister had cleared an institutional framework for the National Skills Mission, and also approved the first integrated national policy for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship.
The mission will have a three-tiered, high powered decision making structure, with its governing council being chaired by the Prime Minister.
The new National Policy for Skill Development policy is the country's first integrated national scheme for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship at a large scale and was recently approved by the Union Cabinet.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
It acknowledges the need for an effective roadmap for promotion of entrepreneurship as the key to a successful skills strategy.
The previous National Policy on Skill Development was formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2009 and provided for a review after five years to align the policy framework with emerging national and international trends.
Click Here to watch SkillIndia Live
