The Union Cabinet had approved India’s largest Skill Certification Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), on 20 March, 2015. The Scheme was subsequently launched on 15 July, 2015, on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day by Honorable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi. PMKVY is implemented by National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) under the guidance of the Ministry of Skill Developmentand Entrepreneurship (MSDE). With a vision of a Skilled India, MSDE aims to skill India on a large scale withspeed and high standards. PMKVY is the flagship scheme that is driving towards greater realisation of thisvision.

Owing to the its successful first year of implementation, the Union Cabinet has approved the Scheme for another four years (2016-2020) to impart skilling to 10 million youth of the country. This booklet contains thevarious Guidelines under the Scheme that participating agencies need to abide by.

At present, just a little extent of India's workforce has any formal expertise training. As anyone might expect in this way a few areas of the nation's economy face deficiency of talented individuals and are sealed with low-efficiency levels because of the low quality of the workforce. In the meantime, extensive areas of the nation's youth are searching for monetary and employment open opportunities. In this way, skill advancement has turned into a key need zone for the nation. This is vital for monetary improvement, as well as would satisfy youth yearnings for good quality, better-paid occupations and independent work opportunities. This would likewise empower the nation to exploit its positive demographic profile. With an extensive pool of skilled individuals, India has a chance to wind up an ability supplier in the world, especially the maturing developed world.

Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasYojana is the leaders’ result based skill training plan of new Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. This ability certification and reward plan expects to empower and prepare countless youth to take up expertise preparing and get to be employable and gain their occupation. Under the plan, money related prize would be given to students who are effectively prepared, surveyed and guaranteed in aptitude courses keep running by affiliated training suppliers. This will support the profitability of the nation's workforce by empowering them to secure the astounding ability preparing over a scope of sectors. It will likewise achieve an outlook change of input based to result based skill training in the nation. It additionally tries to altogether scale up aptitude preparing exercises in the nation and empower ability preparing to happen at a quick pace without bargaining quality.

The objective of this Scheme is to support and advance Skill Development for adolescent all through the nation by adjusting itself to "Common Norms" rules. Scheme likewise should be adjusted to supplement every other Mission of Government like ‘Swachh Bharat’, Make in India, Smart Cities, and Digital India. In particular, the Scheme intends to:

     • NSDC will be executing office for this Scheme. It is proposed to likewise include State Governments through a task-based methodology. Same will have a separate rule document

     •The scheme will give payouts to Training Partners (TPs) in arrangement with Common Norms for the fruitful culmination of skill training and certification to roughly 10 million youths in a range of four years from date of usage of Scheme

     • Training might be given just as affirmed Centers as characterized with an exemption for Special regions

     • This Scheme might be actualized through Public-Private and Public-Public organizations

     • NSDC will be executing office for this Scheme. It is proposed to likewise include State Governments through a task-based methodology. Same will have a separate rule document

     • The scheme will give payouts to Training Partners (TPs) in arrangement with Common Norms for the fruitful culmination of skill training and certification to roughly 10 million youths in a range of four years from date of usage of Scheme

     • Training might be given just as affirmed Centers as characterized with an exemption for Special regions

     • This Scheme might be actualized through Public-Private and Public-Public organizations

     • Evaluation Agencies and Training Partners for all motivations behind Scheme will be partitioned and no cover of parts will be allowed to keep up straightforwardness and objectivity

     • Centers will guarantee institutionalized and endorsed marking standards.

     • Biometric gadgets for catching students and mentors' participation (Aadhaar empowered) should be compulsory at PMKVY Centers

     • Payouts will be influenced through bank exchange to Beneficiaries' and Training Partners' records as the material under Common Norms

Short Term Training granted at PMKVY Training Centers is relied upon to profit competitors of Indian nationality who are either school/school dropouts or unemployed. Aside from giving, preparing as per the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), TCs should likewise grant training in Finance, Entrepreneurship, Soft Skills and Digital Literacy. Length of training differs per work part, going somewhere around 150 and 300 hours. Upon fruitful end of their evaluation, applicants might be given position help via Training Partners. Under PMKVY, whole preparing and appraisal expenses are paid by the Government. Payouts should be given to TPs in arrangement with Common Norms. Training bestowed under Short Term Training part of Scheme might be NSQF Level 5 and beneath.

People with earlier learning background or aptitudes should be evaluated and insured under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) segment of Scheme. RPL expects to adjust skills of the unregulated workforce of the nation to NSQF. Project Implementing Agencies, forexample, Sector Skill Councils or some other organizations assigned by MSDE/NSDC, should be manipulated to actualize RPL ventures in any of three Project Types (RPL Camps, RPL at Employers Premises and RPL centers). To address information difference, PIAs may provide Bridge Courses to RPL competitors.

Special Projects part of PMKVY visualizes production of a stage that will encourage trainings in unique ranges and/or premises of the Government bodies, Corporates or Industry bodies, and trainings in extraordinary employment parts not characterized under accessible Qualification Packs/National Occupational Standards. Uncommon Projects will be Projects that require some deviation from terms and states of Short Term Training under PMKVY for any partner. A proposing partner can be either the Government Institutions of Central and State Government(s)/Autonomous Body/Statutory Body or whatever other identical body or corporate who longing to give training to candidates.

Social and group activation is amazingly basic for achievement of PMKVY. Dynamic cooperation of group guarantees straightforwardness and responsibility, and helps in utilizing aggregate information of group for better working. In accordance with this, PMKVY appoints extraordinary significance of contribution of objective recipients through a characterized preparation process. TPs should direct Kaushal and RozgarMelas each six months with press/media scope; they are additionally required to partake effectively in National Career Service Melas and on-ground exercises.

PMKVY imagines connecting aptitude, aspiration, and information of skilled workforce it makes with employment opportunities and requests in the business sector. Each exertion in this way should be made by PMKVY TCs to give position, chances of candidates, trained and certified under the scheme. TPs might likewise give backing to business enterprise advancement.

To guarantee that exclusive expectations of value are kept up by PMKVY TCs, NSDC, and empaneled Inspection Agencies might utilize different strategies, for example, self-review reporting, call approvals, surprise visits,and checking through the Skills Development Management System. These strategies might be improved with engagement of the most recent advancements.

     1. Training Centre affiliation is granted on the basic job roles.

     2. Training Centre pay an Affiliation fee for each job role.

     3. Training Centre who apply online affiliation request is forwarded to the SSC ( sector skill councils).

     4. Every Scheme has own target process and according this process training centre allocate targets.

     5. Training Centre has performance Standards Metrics

     1.Availability of separate washroom facility for male and female trainees

     2.Availability of safe/clean drinking water facility

     3.Training Centre is acceptably clean

     4.Health and Safety Facilities

     5.Avaialibility of AEBAS

     6.At least One trainer Certified in Entrepreneurship by NIESBUD or any similar

     7.Availability of NSQF aligned training material (For each Job Role)

     8.Availaibility of Equipment/ Tools/ Machinery in Lab (For each Job Role)

     9.Type of Building

     10. Availability of CCTV cameras in Training Centre

     11.Availability of pantry, lift and parking facilities

     12.Availability of ramps, Lifts and toilets for differently-abled people

     13. Proximity to Public Transport System i.e. Bus Stand, Metro Station, Railway Station

     14.Availability of overhead projectors

     15.Availability of Air-Conditioning in all classrooms

     16.Availability of Internet Connectivity/p>

     17. Availability of Power Backup

     18.Availability of Library Facility