The Ministry of Rural Development on Tuesday said that a total of 41,401 youth from North Eastern region of India have been placed in a job till February 2022 under Deen Dayal Upadhyay-Grameen Kaushal Yojana.
The DDU-GKY, which is a placement linked skill development program for rural poor youth in the age group of 15-35 years, is being implemented by the Government since September, 2014. The scheme aims to create income diversity in poor families and help rural youth realize their career aspirations.
The free of cost skilling program has trained a total of 70,934 youth from North- Eastern states out of which 54,319 aspirants were from Assam.
According to the ministry a fund of INR 2,564.46 lakhs have been released in Arunachal Pradesh under DDU-GKY. Assam accounts for the major share of fund released under the programme at 37,206.6 lakh rupees, whereas Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura accounts for approximately INR 7,170 lakhs, 5,295 lakhs, 6712 lakhs and 7,081 lakhs respectively.
DDU-GKY guidelines provide for earmarking 50 per cent of the funds for SCs and STs and 15 per cent for minorities. Further, one third beneficiaries of the respective categories under the scheme should be women.
DDU-GKY has helped youth from poor rural families in accessing free of cost skilling program. DDU-GKY has been providing skilling options in 616 job roles till now as per the aspirations of rural youth and imparting required and relevant skills to rural youth. DDU-GKY provides for placement of minimum 70% of trained candidates providing them with jobs having regular monthly wages.
Cumulatively 11.44 lakh youth have been trained and 7.15 lakh youth have been placed till 31st Jan, 2022 under DDU-GKY.
The programme began with an ambition to benchmark wage placement-linked programs to global standards. MoRD reconstructed the placement linked skill development program under the National Rural Livelihood Mission as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY).
DDU-GKY is already being implemented in 27 states and 3 UTs for rural poor youth with an emphasis on placements. More than 871 Project Implementation Agencies (PIAs) are training rural poor youth in close to 611- job roles through more than 2381 training centers.
