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Cover Story
Young India

Empowerment of women through skill development

In line with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's visionary
A 16-day Module Gender
programme 'Mission Karmayogi,
Sensitization POSH workshop
"the Skill Ministry imparted self-
was organised with the help
defence training to women
of MSDE.
under the' Meri Suraksha, Meri
Zimmedari" programme.

Women are now
skilled in large
numbers, from self-
MSDE has tied up with the Sports, employment to
Physical Education, Fitness, and Leisure working as skilled
Skills Council to impart self-defence workers in industries.
training to 10,000 working women and
ITI girl students.

Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS)
empowering rural India

n Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Central Sector Scheme):
Non-literates, neo-literates, and persons with an
elementary level of education, including school There is a need to prepare skilled work
dropouts up to the 12th standard in the age group force on a large scale for the new
of 15–45 years, are being provided vocational skills possibilities being created in the country.
and training at the doorstep of the beneficiary
With the skill power of the youth, India
through NGOs.
can achieve its goal of becoming the
n At present, 301 JSS schemes are being third-largest economy in the world. It
implemented in 295 districts in 26 States and 7 is our endeavour to ensure that every
Union Territories. section of society gets the benefit of skill
development. Be it our Dalit brothers
31.08 deprived sections, or our mothers and
and sisters, tribal brothers and sisters,

sisters, everyone will get an equal
opportunity to move forward. Keeping
this in mind, the skill development of the
lakh beneficiaries have been trained
youth is also given priority.
under the JSS scheme from 2014–15
to March 15, 2023, which includes 85%
women beneficiaries. - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

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