Deendayal Antodaya Yojana - Explained!

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY)

An Introduction

12 Million. Put it in numbers, it is 1,20,00,000. Huge isn’t it? Now take this, statistics say that approximately 12 million Indians join workforce but out of them ONLY 10% are SKILLED. Let’s have some comparisons. In EU the skilled workforce is approximately 70% of the total workforce and in China it is approximately 50%. India has a long way to go.

With an aim to uplift the poor by enhancing livelihood opportunities through SKILL development the Governement announced a Rs 500 crore "Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana".

Government has also sought the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model to make this scheme more effective. According to estimates, by 2020, the developed nations will have a shortage of 57 million workers and there will be an acute need then to outsource the work. This is where, India, with its skilled workforce can pitch in and it will be a huge potential for the Indians.

Rs 500 crore will be spent on skill development of over five lakh urban poor under the DAY scheme and according to Government sources, to make the dream of “Make in India” come true, development of the required “skills” among the youth will be essential.

The basics of DAY:

Targeted at/ Managed by:

-          Urban People – Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) to take care

-          Rural People – Ministry of Rural Development to take care

Implementation:

-          Urban People – Will start in 2016

-          Rural People – With immediate effect i.e. from Sept 2014.

Task:

Make people industry-ready with help of development of required skills. Hence under this scheme, a major skill development initiative has been started.

For the sake of ease of understanding, let us divide the scheme into two parts viz Rural and Urban.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (for the development of Rural People).

•  Eligibility:

15 years and above – for the Rural Youth

• Target:

To train 10 lakh rural youth and make them industry-ready by 2017. Special attention will be paid to the disabled persons to make them industry-ready.

• How?

Government will set up training centres in the rural areas. Outreach programmes will help the Government spread the word and make people aware about such scheme and help the rural people take the benefit out of it.

Deendayal Upadhyay Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) (for the development of Urban Poor)

•  Eligibility:

Urban Poor

• Target:

To train 5 lakh Urban Poors every year and make them industry-ready.

• How?

Government will set up training centres in the rural areas. Outreach programmes will help the Government spread the word and make people aware about such scheme and help the rural people take the benefit out of it.

Government to set up “City Livelihood Centres” with Rs.10 lakh grant to train the Urban Poor. It will spend Rs. 15000-18000 on training each of the Urban Poor.

Formation of Urban Self Help Groups (SHGs) has also been envisaged.

On the other side, Govt. has also planned to set up “Vendor Markets”, and give skill training to vendors as well.

Govt. plans the construction of permanent shelters for urban homeless and has also provision to provide essential services to these people.

And Govt. will also help the Urban Poor set up enterprises. For this they will be given a loan at a subsidized rate of 7%.

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC):

HUPA has tied up with NSDC, which will essentially provide training to the poor through its training centres.

NSDC will also provide certification and will also determine the syllabus for such skill development programmes.

Conclusion:

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) scheme aims to fill the gap that currently exists between what industry demands and what people have, in terms of skills. The planning has been effectively divided into rural and urban for the better execution of the scheme. Skill development, which is the need of the hour, will help generate employment for a lot of underprivileged people through DAY.

Paridhi Trivedi Parikh | Hardik K. Parikh

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