Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Initiatives
The MSDE is collaborating with five central ministries to assess their specific demand for a skilled workforce, aligning training initiatives with sector-specific and demand-specific needs under the Skill India mission.
Objective and Strategy
- Provide short-term training, reskilling, and upskilling to create a skilled workforce.
- Conduct skill gap analysis across various schemes to project the demand over the next five years.
- Plan to initiate training by the financial year 2025-26.
Benefits
This initiative aims to fast-track skill training in the country, ensuring schemes are implemented by professionally trained personnel, thereby improving effectiveness and achieving desired outcomes.
Training Programs
- Short-term training: 200-600 hours.
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) based up-skilling: 30-132 hours, under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 4.0).
Involved Ministries
- Ministry of Tourism
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Specific Schemes Requiring Skilled Manpower
- SWAGATAM under the tourism ministry.
- Municipal solid waste management under the housing and urban affairs ministry.
- Food safety and standards authority of India.
- Managing PM Kisan Samridhi Kendra.
- NAMASTE scheme (National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) for promoting safe sanitation practices.
- The NAMASTE initiative aims to formalize workers engaged in hazardous cleaning and promote mechanized and safe cleaning methods.
