Introduction
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushal Yojana (DDUGKY) is a skill development program under National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to bring about an inclusive growth in rural areasAim
- DDUGKY aims to place 75% trained people in guaranteed employment
Target
- Disadvantaged groups
- SC/ST comprises 50%
- Minority community constitute 15%
- Women constitute about 33%
- Focus on poor youth of rural J&K - HIMAYAT
- Regions affected by left wing extremism and North East – ROSHNI
- Targets about 5.5 crore (census 2011) potential workers in rural areas in the age group of 15 to 30 years
Nodal Agency
- Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Implemented through National Skill Development Corporation
- Comes under National Rural Livelihoods Mission
Important Sectors focused by DDUGKY
Green sectors including
- Renewable energy
- Waste management
- Floriculture
- Eco tourism
- Organic production
- Animal husbandry
Grey sectors including
- Manufacturing
- Transportation
- Furniture making
- Construction
- Metal art
- Wooden art
- Handlooms
Service sector including
- Telecom
- Healthcare
- Electrician
- Hotels
- Tailoring
Strategies adopted in DDUGKY to train rural youth
- Vocational Education
- Creating awareness
- Motivational training programs
- Sensitizing workshops
- Induction
- Orientation
- Evolving skill development models
- Residential training
- Short duration courses
- Long duration courses
- ICT usage
- Life skills improvement
- Sensitizing industries
- Creating more effective schemes
- New VTI establishment
- Training at cluster and block level
- Certification
- Assessment
- PPP mode in institutions
- Diversified courses
- Building a pool of trainers
- Practical training
- Technical training
- Placement assurance
Key Benefits of DDUGKY
- Bridges challenges like lack of formal education
- Develops marketable skills by funding training projects
- Provides placement to trained rural youth
- Retention of trained people
- Foreign placement
- Career progression
Issues in DDUGKY
- High level of school drop out rate
- Depletion of natural resources
- Eroding socio cultural heritage
- Emotional stress
- Lower educational levels
- Access to skill training
- Already employed in low skilled jobs
- Rural women stay unemployed during child birth
- Economical stress
- Work safety and security is a concern for rural women at work place
- Misguided development interventions
- Issues arise with the working hours of the rural population
Conclusion
- DDUGKY aims at expanding the scope of livelihoods available to the rural poor
- The scheme addresses the industry specific skill demand
- Special emphasis on developing skills for non farm sector to get job outside agriculture field in rural areas
- DDUGKY aims to promote entrepreneurship among the micro and cottage industries in the villages
- The scheme aims to develop rural India by developing a skilled workforce in the rural areas
- The scheme will also indirectly contribute to control the mass urbanization with the rural people migrating in large numbers to urban areas for a better standard of living
