Implementation of the Skill Development programme

India has adopted skill development as a national priority and assigned yearly targets to the Ministries which are being monitored regularly. Department of Social Justice and Empowerment is participating effectivey in the implementation of the skill development programme and enabling action at the grass root level with the help of the three Finance Corporations which are promoting economic empowerment of the target groups. These Corporations finance self employment oriented income generating schemes for their target groups and are basically not for profit Companies. They are also implementing the Skill Development Programmes as per the targets assigned to them, They are :

i. National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation(

NSFDC)

ii. National Safai Karmacharis Finance and Development Corporation

(NSKFDC)

iii. National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation

(NBCFDC)

Progress made in Skill Development Training Programme during the

year 2013-14.

S.No.

Organization Target for 2013-14 Cumulative progress up to March, 2014

%age

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2. National Institute/Corporations

35,000 34876 99.65

3. SCA to SCSP 70,000 40471 57.81

Total 1,05,000 75347 71.76

The progress made by the Corporations in imparting skills to the target

group can be tracked through the links given under:

1. NSFDC - http://www.nsfdc.nic.in/uniquepage.asp?ID_PK=43 2. NSKFDC - http://nskfdc.nic.in/training.html 3. NBCFDC- http://www.nbcfdc.org.in/sc_tscheme.html