Capacity Building of Private Training Providers and Involvement of Industry

One Year Achievement of NDA Govt.

In order to enhance private sector participation in the Skilling, NSDC has been working to enhance capacity of private training providers through provision of loan, grant and equity funding.

Progress: By end of March 2015, the NSDC Board had approved 203 skilling proposals and 37 Sector Skill Councils with total financial commitment of over INR 2500 cr. In the last year, for the important sectors of Green Jobs, Persons with Disabilities etc, Sector skill councils were approved for focussed industry led approach in skilling in these sectors.

Outcome: NSDC has developed a wide network for skilling with  207 NSDC approved training partners, 2,904 operational NSDC partner centres, including 676 mobile centres with coverage across 28 states and 5 UTs in 471 districts across India. In the last year, the NSDC ecosystem had trained 24,12,862 people in skill training programmes.   

Courtesy:pib.nic.in