By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship R.K. Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Monday said under the DDU-GKY scheme, 4.39 lakh candidates have been trained during 2018-19 and 2019-20, of which 84156 candidates belong to Scheduled Tribes. Under the PMKVY 2016-20, 49.67 lakh candidates have been trained during the 2018-19 and 2019-20, of which 2.13 lakh candidates belong to Scheduled Tribes.
The State-wise details of candidates placed under the scheme DDU-GKY and PMKVY 2.0 are placed at Annexure II and Annexure III respectively.
The Evaluation Study of PMKVY 2.0 by NSDC indicates that individuals trained and certified under Short Term Training (STT) are 1.8 times more likely to get employed and there is increase in employment and average monthly income of skilled youth.
Under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) certification, individuals have been benefitted in terms of increase in self-confidence, improvement in technical knowledge, soft-skills and average monthly income.
