The skill development progress targeting youth, the
Centre said one young member of each village household that has
completed 100 days of work under the rural job scheme will be provided
skill and placement support.
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh made this announcement in
the presence of Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Planning Commission
Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia during the launch of the National
Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme in New Delhi on Friday.
Every year roughly about four and a half crore households get
employment under MNREGA and young members of roughly eight to nine
percent of families that have crossed 100 days of work will be eligible
for government’s new skill development cum placement activity.
“About eight per cent of the households at a national level have
crossed the 100 day limit of employment under MNREGA and we have now
decided is one youth of that household which has 100 days, which is
obviously poor and very distressed, and we will provide the skill cum
placement support to youth coming from that household,” Ramesh said on
Friday.
He said the number of households involved in MNREGA work is very
very substantial and “this is going to provide further impetus to skill
development” as objective of such programmes is to make rural youth
eligible to enter the stream of migration.
Narrating the features of the skill development programmes coming
under Ministry’s flagship schemes Aajeevika, Ramesh said, “It is very
much part of the national skill mission although it is not seen to be
so.”
“But it is an integral part of national skill mission. We are
stressing not numbers, or targets but we are stressing quality and
employment and sustainability of the employment,” he said about
Aajeevika skill development programmes like “Himayat” in Jammu and
Kashmir and “Roshni” in Maoist-affected districts of Jharkhand, Odisha
and Chhattisgarh.
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