Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Initiatives

The MSDE is collaborating with five central ministries to assess their specific demand for a skilled workforce, aligning training initiatives with sector-specific and demand-specific needs under the Skill India mission.

Objective and Strategy

• Provide short-term training, reskilling, and upskilling to create a skilled workforce.
• Conduct skill gap analysis across various schemes to project the demand over the next five years.
• Plan to initiate training by the financial year 2025-26.

Benefits

This initiative aims to fast-track skill training in the country, ensuring schemes are implemented by professionally trained personnel, thereby improving effectiveness and achieving desired outcomes.

Training Programs

• Short-term training: 200-600 hours.
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) based up-skilling: 30-132 hours, under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 4.0).

Involved Ministries

• Ministry of Tourism
• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
• Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Specific Schemes Requiring Skilled Manpower

• SWAGATAM under the tourism ministry.
• Municipal solid waste management under the housing and urban affairs ministry.
• Food safety and standards authority of India.
• Managing PM Kisan Samridhi Kendra.
• NAMASTE scheme (National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) for promoting safe sanitation practices.
  • The NAMASTE initiative aims to formalize workers engaged in hazardous cleaning and promote mechanized and safe cleaning methods.