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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