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NEW DELHI: As the government prepares a new Skill Development Policy, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said it is “impossible to achieve” the target of skilling 500 million people by 2022 as envisaged under the existing policy announced in 2009 during the UPA regime.
“There was a National Skill Policy which was announced in 2009. The 2009 policy talked about training 500 million people. When I took over, I saw these numbers and I said Thank You. It is almost impossible to achieve,” Rudy said at an IIT Delhi event here.

1. The following will be mandatory and will be ensured by all Training Partners participating in PMKVY 2.0 at their Training Centres where the Training will be executed.

Biometric attendance.
Mandatory Aadhar- Students, Assessors and Trainers.

2. There would not be any exceptions to this rule and Training centers with the above would only be allowed to participate.

Please note that the revised RPL guidelines as mentioned in Addendum 2.0 to the ‘RPL Scheme Guidelines with Addendum 2.0’ are effective for all enrollments done on and after 15th March 2016 (the date of issuance of the Order by MSDE).

The Assessment Criteria for both PMKVY and Non PMKVY Schemes will be same as is being followed in PMKVY Scheme with effect from 01 April 2016.
It is further intimated that all assessments will also be carried out as per the revised QP/NOS with effect from the date.
The revised QP/NOS are available on our website.

Skill shortage is a squeaking wheel that won’t get greased as long as we continue to link vocational training with school dropouts. No doubt a gifted scholar has other avenues, but someone coming out of a vocational institute should be no pushover either. Unfortunately, our thoughts on this subject suffer from a foundational flaw. We have assumed all along that skill development is only for the academically challenged; better still, they should also be dirt poor, with nowhere to go.

NEW DELHI: Clearly there is no walking the talk for the newly created skill development and entrepreneurship ministry. While development of skills may be a buzzword for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s policies, very few moves have taken place on the ground to get the new ministr going.

NSDC said it has signed an agreement with the MoHUPA for providing quality skill training, certification and placement to the urban poor for a sustainable livelihood.
“Through this agreement, NSDC will facilitate training of approximately 1 lakh urban poor in one year by engaging with its training partners and leveraging the existing training infrastructure as per terms and conditions of National Urban Livelihood Mission ( NULM),” it said.
The two parties will jointly monitor the progress of the training and placement of the urban poor.

The officers in the labour and MSME ministries whom ET Magazine interacted with say handing over all skill development work to one single ministry is unlikely to materialize in the near future. But Sonowal is confident that all skill development work currently being undertaken by various ministries will converge into his ministry in a phased manner.

Introducing a formal definition of skill development, integrating soft skills in each training programme and tracking of all candidates enrolled in such schemes through their Aadhaar number are some of the key recommendations of a high-powered panel set up to rationalise the multitude of skilling schemes run by the government.

The Modi government is set to launch a new skill development policy by March 2015 that would bridge..

The Modi government is set to launch a new skill development policy by March 2015 that would bridge the gap between educational institutions and the labour market, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship Sarbananda Sonowal said here on Wednesday.