Dilip Chenoy, CEO and Managing Director, National Skill Development
There are over 70 schemes available to develop skills in different types of areas under the ambit of 17 ministries. Two of them of importance for the minority community on the large scale is JEEVIKA skills programmes for people below the poverty line and minorities in rural areas where if anybody, registered to any organization, joins any skill development programme, it is entirely funded by the JEEVIKA schemes. One of the conditions is that after the training, at least 70 per cent of these students should get a job. The second is a similar scheme under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation which promotes skilling for people in urban areas who can join the skill development programmes and get employed. There are many sector ministries in leather, in textiles etc which are key areas where minorities actually work. The idea here is that if you are actually running a minority institution and you have students who wish to get skilled and qualify as beneficiaries in any one of this category, either in the urban centres or in the rural centres, you can approach the ministry and become an approved training partner or you can approach an already approved training partner and mobilise students for them.
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