Skill Development Programmes: Some Reflections

By : Bharti Kureel, Bhavna Verma

Page No: 355-362

Abstract
Skill development is a milestone for the upliftment of the weaker section of the society—especially the unprivileged, unemployed youth. Indian government is specifically focused on providing skill to the Indian youth and its objective is to enable, mobilize and make them professionally knowledgeable so that they can have some livelihood through these programmes. But, these programmes have certain shortcomings at its implementation level, coordination with government and non-government agencies, and also lack of participation at community level.Taking in to consideration of this situation, an attempt has been made in this article to see some reflections of this skill development programmes on the basis of secondary data. The article is divided into three parts—firstly, dealing with the need of skills in different sectors; secondly, showing the status of skill India programmes; thirdly, showing the problems, gap and suggestions for effective implementation of skill development programme.

Authors :
Bharti Kureel : Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhya Pith, Varanasi.
Bhavna Verma : Professor, Department of Social Work, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhya Pith, Varanasi