Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch Skill India Campaign today Wednesday July 15,2015

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana' on Wednesday July 15,2015 to create skilled manpower at grass-root level by providing them vocational, technical and skill development education.

These include a redesigned Model Skill Loan Scheme, Skill Card for persons certified under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and the new National Policy for Skill Development.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Skill India programme, being launched under National Skill Development Mission, would impart skill training to 24 lakh youth over the next year and trained candidates would be awarded with incentives.

The mission will have a three-tiered, high powered decision making structure, with its governing council being chaired by the Prime Minister

Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister had cleared an institutional framework for the National Skills Mission, and also approved the first integrated national policy for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship