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Skilling India, Transforming India

To make the Skill India Mission effective at the crore people have
national level, more than 40 skill development 5.70 been trained under
schemes/programs have been implemented this mission till
through 20 ministries/departments. Over March 2022

1.42 1.35 1.08
Over
Over

crore are enrolled in the Ministry crore people were crore certified
of Skill Development and trained.
Entrepreneurship. 24
37 Sector Skill Councils

formed
lakh placements have
been done so far

PROGRESS OF TRAINING
UNDER MINISTRY OF
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP * Figures as of March 2022.

single point of contact. However, Prime Minister on the shore does not drown, the person who
Modi, who recognised the significance of skill jumps into the water drowns and learns to
development, established a separate Ministry of swim while drowning. The government is also
Skill Development by bringing everyone together. providing loans through Startup India, Stand Up
That is, the thinking was that by focusing on India, and Mudra Yojana to provide skills and new
skill development, the country's youth would be opportunities to the youth. Its goal is to look at
prepared in such a way that they would never knowledge and skills differently and to follow
have to rely on anyone. Swami Vivekananda's path.
Instead of making the youth job seekers, the Today, it is critical to emphasise the value of
idea was to equip them with skills that would skills. No work is completed overnight; only a
enable them to become job providers. "Innovation concerted effort results in success. Small children
and imagination are the keys to possibilities," are innovating in this direction, creating new apps
said the great physicist Robert Noyce. Prime from the Tinkering Lab of the Atal Innovation
Minister Modi also believes "Society's life can Mission. The Atal Innovation Mission has evolved
only progress when it is constantly new". Life is into a movement that encourages children to
about constantly learning. Only then will we be innovate. Recognizing the current knowledge-
successful, which is why our country's younger skills gap in India, the Skill Development Mission
generation requires that courage and spirit. He was launched on July 15, 2015. Its goal was for
believes that many people panic because they the youth to gain knowledge as well as skills.
are afraid of failing. While the person standing Thousands of Prime Minister's Skill Development

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