All Skill Development Content
15 published pieces
PMKVY 4.0 — Free Skill Certification for 1.48 Crore Indians Since 2015
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PM Internship Scheme — 12 Months Inside India's Top 500 Companies, Paid Rs. 5,000 a Month
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Stand-Up India — Rs. 10 Lakh to Rs. 1 Crore for SC/ST and Women Entrepreneurs
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PM Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan — Making Rural India Digitally Literate
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National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme — Earning While Learning for India's Young Workforce
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PM Vishwakarma — Recognition, Tools, Credit and Markets for India's Traditional Artisans
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PM MUDRA Yojana — Collateral-Free Business Credit for 52 Crore Micro-Entrepreneurs
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DDU-GKY and Skilled in Odisha — The Tribal Youth Skill-to-Employment Pipeline
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Barefoot College — The Solar Mama Who Never Went to School
Magan Kanwar was a sanitation worker in Rajasthan. She could not read or write. She had no formal education, no technical training, no credential of any kind. She came to Barefoot College in Tilonia and left six months later as a solar engineer — capable of building, installing,....
Aajeevika Bureau — The Organisation That Made Invisible Workers Visible
Ramesh Kumar was a stone carver from Rajasthan. He and fifty others had spent more than a year building statues for a temple in Gujarat. The work was completed. The promised pay — more than Rs 5 lakh — never came. The contractor had disappeared. Ramesh and his colleagues had no c...
Tata STRIVE — The Skills Programme That Measured What Happened After Training
India's skill development sector has a specific and persistent failure: the gap between training completion and actual employment. Programmes train hundreds of thousands of youth annually, certify them, and then measure "placement rates" that often count job offers rather than jo...
Blue Economy Skills for Odisha's Coastal Communities
For Odisha's 480 km coastline and its 150,000 Chilika fishers alone, the Blue Economy is not an abstract policy concept. It is the evolving context of livelihoods that communities have practised for generations — now at the intersection of technological change, climate stress, an...
Recognition of Prior Learning — Certifying What Tribal Communities Already Know
Recognition of Prior Learning is a government programme under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), implemented by the National Skill Development Corporation through Sector Skill Councils and their accredited assessment agencies.
Demand-Driven Skill Training — The Employer Partnership Model
The employer is the last person in this chain. They are presented with trained youth and asked whether they will hire them. Sometimes they do. Often they don't — because the training was in a trade where they don't have vacancies, or the geographic location of the trainee doesn't...
Skill Development in Odisha: Training Is Not Employment
She trained for six months under a PMKVY programme in Bhubaneswar. The course was in retail management. At the end she received a certificate. The placement officer told her that her starting salary would be ₹8,500 per month — in a shopping mall in Hyderabad. She had never lived....