Skill Development and Skill Training
Today’s world has seen an unprecedented growth in the number of its young population.
A total of 1.8 billion people belong to the age group of 15 to 29 and they represent
almost one third of the total population in the world. In India, almost 365 million
people fall in the age group of 10 to 24 years. The 2011 Census report of India
indicated that approximately 65% of India’s total population is below 35 years and
almost 50% of its total population is below 25 years. This demographic dividend
is expected to brand India as the youngest nation in the world by the year 2020.
Hence, India needs to take a holistic and comprehensive approach to effectively
utilise its youth in its socio-economic development. This will only be possible
if we take into account the needs of our youth while designing and implementing
policies and programmes in order to enable them to contribute to the national development
goals.
Skilling the youth is therefore the need of the hour for India. The Periodic Labour
Force Survey (PLFS) has indicated that in 2017-18, only 1.8% of the Indian population
underwent formal or vocational training and around 5.6% of the population received
informal vocational training. It suggests that almost 93% of the population did
not receive any formal or informal vocational training. We aim at minimising this
gap through maintaining adherence to different skill programmes run under the ambit
of Government of India and the state governments. The marginalised section are the
primary targets of our programmes.
Follow the links to know more about India’s skill development scenario
Ministry of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Ministry of Minority Affairs
Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18
National Skill Development Corporation
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
NITI Aayog