National Skill Development Agency (subsumes the Office of Adviser to the PM - National Council on Skill Development) The Office of Adviser to the PM has now been subsumed under the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA). NSDA is an autonomous body which will coordinate and harmonize the skill development efforts of the Government and the private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the 12th Plan and beyond and endeavour to bridge the social, regional, gender and economic divide. (i) by ensuring that the skilling needs of the disadvantaged and marginalized groups like SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, women and differently-abled persons are taken care of through the various skill development programmes and (ii) by taking affirmative action s as part of advocacy by the NSDA. The Central Ministries and NSDC will continue to implement schemes in their remit. The NSDA will anchor the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) and facilitate the setting up of professional certifying bodies in addition to the existing ones. The NSDA will discharge the following functions:
Take all possible steps to meet skilling targets as envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan and beyond; Coordinate and harmonize the approach to skill development among various Central Ministries/Departments, State Governments, the NSDC and the private sector; Anchor and operationalize the NSQF to ensure that quality and standards meet sector specific requirements; Be the nodal agency for State Skill Development Missions; Raise extra-budgetary resources for skill development from various sources such as international agencies, including multi-lateral agencies, and the private sector; Evaluate existing skill development schemes with a view to assessing their efficacy and suggest corrective action to make them more effective; Create and maintain a national data base related to skill development including development of a dynamic Labour Market Information System (LMIS); Take affirmative action for advocacy; Ensure that the skilling needs of the disadvantaged and the marginalized groups like SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, women and differently abled persons are taken care of; and Discharge any other function as may be assigned to it by the Government of India. Report on Rationalisation of GOI Schemes on Skill Development for comments on interested stakeholders Submitted on Mon, 29/09/2014-9:42am In various interactions with State Government officials and workshops, the States have repeatedly pointed out that the skill development programmes being implemented by various Ministries of the Government of India have different norms as regards the eligibility criteria, duration of training, maximum amount that would be available for the training of each individual, outcomes, monitoring and tracking mechanisms etc. For the implementing agencies, this multiplicity of norms and parameters results in unnecessary difficulties. Furthermore, almost all States have set up State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs) to coordinate and integrate the skill development efforts of all the departments of the State
Government. The ability of the SSDMs to do this effectively would be enhanced considerably if the norms and parameters applicable to all the schemes of the GOI were similar. To address these issues, the Government of India constituted a Committee on Dovetailing/ Rationalization of Central Government Schemes on Skill development. The Committee has submitted its report, and the same is being placed on the website for comments on interested stakeholders. All interested parties are requested to send their comments to cnslt-fin-nsda@gov.in by 15th October 2014.
Skill Development Progress (FY 2014-15) S.No. Ministry/Organization 2014-15 Target (Persons) Achievement for 2014-15 reported till July 2014 Balance Number % of annual target Targer for 2014-15 1. Ministry of Labour & Employment 16,25,000 3,06,000 18.83% 13,19,000 2. Ministry of Agriculture 22,00,000 1,77,245 8.06% 20,22,755 3. National Skill Development Corporation*** 33,00,000 15,24,333 46.19% 17,75,667 4. Ministry of Rural Development** 5,62,950 88,184 15.66% 4,74,766 5. Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises 6,50,000 - - - 6. Department of Higher Education 1,00,000 - - - 7. Department of Electronics & Information Technology 6,10,000 - - - 8. Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 6,50,000 - - - 9. Ministry of Women & Child Development 96,000 - - -
10. Ministry of Textiles 1,20,000 - - - 11. Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment 42,000 - - - 12. Ministry of Tourism 80,800 14,203 17.58% 66,597 13. 14. 15. Ministry of Minority Affairs** Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Home Affairs** 95,000 40,924 43.08% 54,076 50,000 - - - 8,000 626 7.83% 7,374 16. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways 17,500 - - - 17. 18. 19. Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers Ministry of Commerce and Industry Department of Heavy Industry 42,500 14,488 34.09% 28,012 49,000 17,249 35.20% 31,751 31,000 1,777 5.73% 29,223 20. Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region 4,000 - - - 21 Ministry of Food Processing Industries 9,000 3,461 38.45% 5,539 TOTAL 103,42,750 21,88,490 21.16% 81,54,260
Training Provider NSDA is working to create a composite searchable directory of all training providers in the country, listing the locations at which various courses are being offered, the cost associated with each such training programme, and the outcomes that a learner graduating from each of these courses can expect to achieve. With these details being freely available on a Citizen Information Portal, any aspirant to these programmes would be able to make an informed choice of the locations, course options and associated costs.1st Module of LMIS for Self Registry of Training Providers has been made live. Please click the link below for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to the process: