DDU-GKY

Rural Skill Development with DDU-GKY

The Rural Context

• 66.8% (281.7 million) of India’s youth live in rural areas

• Rural poverty is compounded by illiteracy, lack of
infrastructure and social divisions
• Empowering rural youth requires a nuanced and deep
understanding of poverty
• It also requires sensitive support structures, with credible
reach, in Panchayat and villages

The DDU-GKY Advantage

• Unique position in enhancing employability- focus on rural

poor youth
• Distinctive outreach for targeting, mobilization, counseling,
motivating and tracking outcomes
• Access to the scale and funding available to MoRD

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• Investment of Rs. 36,000 per candidate has the ability to
produce annual returns of over Rs. 72,000 – among the best
returns on investment in government programmes

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Timeline of Skill Development in MoRD

26 June 2010
SGSY → NRLM
15% of NRLM allocation set apart
for Special Projects
5% for innovative projects

1 May 2013
15% allocation increased to 25%

16 March 1999
IRDP → SGSY
15% of SGSY allocation 20 September 2013
set apart for Special
Guidelines for Aajeevika Skills 25 September 2014
Projects
notified DDU-GKY announced.
Antodaya Diwas notified.
11 July 2014
16 June 2005 Standard Operating Procedures
Guidelines for (SOP) notified
placement-linked
skilling programmes
under SGSY notified.

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1.2. Vision and Features

Vision
“Transform rural poor youth into an economically independent
and globally relevant workforce”

Post- Priority to foreign

Specifies Targets poor
Placement placement, champion
minimum rural youth of employers, captive
Tracking for employers, industrial
wage of Rs. ages 15-35
one year internships
6,000

Pioneer in
standards-led
Retention delivery
and career
progression
support

First to
mandate
tablets for
Social inclusion every trainee
– 50% for
Regional inclusion -
SC/STs, 33% for
ROSHNI (27 critical Pioneer in
women Earmarked
LWE districts); migration
HIMAYAT - J&K funding for
North-East support
centres

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Relentless Focus on Quality

 The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) is designed to achieve:
 High quality and cost-effective delivery in a time-bound manner.
Quality
 Objective standardized monitoring to strike down arbitrary inspector raj.

 Features of the DDU-GKY SOP include:

 Specification of training centre infrastructure
 Clear and transparent inspection parameters for third party agencies
Minimum norms for service standards
 Transparency
 Clear parameters and protocols for non-compliance, delay, default and fraud
 Parameters for candidate mobilization, screening and selection
 Norms and standards for domain and non-domain curriculum

 Skill training supported by:

Industry-recognised independent assessment via NCVT and SSC, providing
 Accountability
certification integrated into NSQF
 Work relevance through on-the-job training (OJT)
 Mandatory soft-skills, English communication, and IT literacy components

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Improved Standards

SGSY DDU-GKY

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Checklist for Area Officers for Training Centers
Sl No Checklist item Status Remarks
1 Whether PIA is using SECC data in Yes/No
mobilization of poorest of poor for the training
courses?
2 Whether Project Implementing Agency (PIA)
provides for formative assessment in the
training courses?
3 Whether Training is undertaken as per
defined Session Plan?
4 Whether training lab equipments meet the
prescribed standards under NCVT/SSC?
5 Whether Training Center has received
observations from SRLM/CTSA for
improvement in terms of Standard Operating
Procedures?

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Checklist for Area Officers for DDU-GKY Training Centers
Sl No Checklist item Status Remarks
6 If answer to sl no 5 is yes, whether the
training center has complied with the
observations
7 Whether attendance in the center matches
with the biometric record?
8 Whether training center has operating CCTV
with audio recording facilities?
9 Whether candidates have received uniforms?
10 Whether candidates have been assisted in
opening Bank accounts?
11 Whether candidates have been assisted in
obtaining Aadhar enrolment?

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Eligibility Conditions

S No. Conditions Status

1 Have a full time COO/Programme Manager in charge of skills and placement. Yes/No

2 Have a dedicated skills team at the state level to support COO skills. Yes/No

3 Have a dedicated skills team at the district and sub district level to support COO skills Yes/No

4 Have a policy that is aligned with the national guidelines on how to appraise new and on-going projects. Yes/No

Have a policy clarifying how DDU-GKY PIAs can use spare capacity (men and material) in government
5 Yes/No
institutions and buildings

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S No. Policy/Strategy List Status

1 Project Appraisal Policy Yes/No

2 Fund Flow System Yes/No

3 Job Fairs / Melas Yes/No

4 IEC Yes/No

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Thank you

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