PRADHAN MANTRI DAKSHTA AUR KUSHALTA SAMPANN HITGRAHI SCHEME

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• Recently, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has informed the Lok Sabha that the amount of funds earmarked under PM-DAKSH (Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi) Yojana during 2020-21 and 2021-22 are Rs.44.79 crores and Rs.79.48 crores respectively.
• Earlier, the Ministry launched ‘PM-DAKSH’ Portal and ‘PM-DAKSH’ Mobile App to make the skill development schemes accessible to the target groups – SC (Scheduled Caste), OBC (Other Backward Classes), Economically Backward Classes (EBC), Denotified tribes, Sanitation workers

Key Points

• It is being implemented from the year 2020-21.
• Under this, eligible target groups are provided with the skill development training programmes on Short Term Training Program; Up-Skilling/Reskilling; Entrepreneurship Development Programme, and Long Term Training Programme.
• These training programmes are being implemented through the government training institutes, sector skill councils that have been constituted by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and other credible institutions.
• Marginalised persons of SC, OBC, EBC, Denotified tribes, Sanitation workers including waste pickers, manual scavengers, transgenders and other similar categories.

Implementation:

It is implemented by the three Corporations under the Ministry:

1. National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC),
2. National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC),
3. National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC).

Status of Skill Development Training of Target Groups:

• Skill development training has been imparted to 2,73,152 people of the target groups in the last 5 years.
• A target, during the year 2021-22, has been set to provide the skill development training to approx 50,000 people of the target groups through these three corporations.

Significance of the Scheme

• Most of the persons of the target groups have minimal economic assets; therefore, provision of training and enhancing their competencies is essential for economic empowerment/ upliftment of these marginalised target groups.
• Many of the persons of the target groups belong to the category of rural artisans who have become marginalised owing to the coming of better technologies in the market.
• Women due to their overall domestic compulsions, cannot be involved in wage employment which normally involves long working hours and sometimes migration to other cities, there is a need to empower the women amongst the target groups.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT