Government Plans PMKVY Skill Hubs at Schools and Colleges: Empowering the Youth

The government has a new plan to help young people by starting PMKVY Skill Hubs in schools and colleges. This means using the places where students already study to teach them useful skills for jobs. The goal is to give young people the skills they need to find good jobs in the future.

Using Places Already There: The good thing about this plan is that it uses the places where students already go to learn. Schools and colleges have classrooms and labs that can be used to teach skills. This saves money because we don’t have to build new places to teach.

Helping Even Faraway Places: Some places in the country are far from cities where it’s hard for private trainers to go. But with this plan, even those faraway places can get skill training. That’s because schools and colleges are everywhere, and they can help reach more young people.

Making Things Simple: When schools and colleges join this plan, they don’t need to go through a lot of paperwork to start teaching skills. That’s because they’re already approved by the government. So, it’s easier and faster to get started.

Getting Ready for Jobs: When students learn useful skills while they’re still studying, they become better at finding jobs later. Learning skills doesn’t stop after school – it’s something people do all their lives. This way, students are ready for whatever jobs come their way in the future.

Starting PMKVY Skill Hubs in schools and colleges is a big help for young people. It uses places already there, helps even faraway places, and makes things simple. This plan helps students get ready for jobs and makes the country stronger. By working together, the government, schools, and businesses can make a big difference in the lives of young people.

What is the Skill Hub Initiative (SHI)?

The ‘Skill Hub Initiative’ under the PMKVY 3.0 focuses on the introduction of skill training programmes in the education ecosystems. The Initiative would consider the policy level synergy on integration of vocational education with general education as envisioned in the NEP 2020. The effort would also supplement the objectives of ‘National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship’ (NSDP), 2015.

Creation of sustainable skill Training Centres, phase-wise introduction of vocational courses in school curriculum in coordination with Ministry of Education through technical support, greater cross utilization of available infrastructure from Universities/ Colleges/ Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)/ Polytechnics/ Schools, and further strengthening of District Skill Committees (DSCs), State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs)/ State Directorate of Technical Education along with handholding, strategic and funding support under the Skill Hub Initiative (SHI)

What is the Skill Hub ?

Skill Hubs are nodal skill centres identified to provide skill development and vocational training opportunities to target population segments from class 6-8th (introduction to world-of-work through orientation, industry visits, bag-less days), Class 9th to 12th (aimed at exposing students to skill development avenues), school dropouts, and out-of-education (aimed for academic credit, mainstreaming back to education and or apprenticeship and employment linkages).

Skill Hubs will be co-opted from the vocational system and education system with participation from MSDE, MoE (Department of School Education & LiteracyDoSEL and Department of Higher Education-DoHE), Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) basis agreed selection criteria including but not limited to the following institutions:

• Schools (Government, Government-Aided and Private)
• Higher Education Institutions (Engineering, Technical and General Institutions including institutions offering Language courses)
• Polytechnics
• Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
• Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs)
• Private Training Providers (PMKVY centres, Fee based centres)
• Institutions under Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) Scheme
• Other Skilling Institutions like RSETI, NIELIT, etc.
• Skilling institutions under MSME
• Corporate Skill Institutions

What are the objectives of the SHI under PMKVY 4.0?

In full roll-out of SHI, the scheme is aimed at the following:

• Provision of permanent vocational infrastructure and resources for skilling
• To ensure contiguous availability of skill centres for ease of candidates
• Introduce vocational learning at an early stage with multiple well-defined pathways for candidates to continue with their chosen vocations
• Provide vocational offerings for target segments including in-school, dropouts and out-of-education candidates
• Align the vocational offerings at all levels with overall economic and local economy need

What are the objectives of the SHI Pilot phase ?

The pilot scheme is aimed at the following:

• Provision of permanent vocational infrastructure and resources for skilling
• Driving convergence and integrated skilling across the education and skill ecosystems
• Step towards re-positioning the vocational education ecosystem from supply driven to demand driven
• Provision of 6-7 Skill Hubs per district in the pilot phase through 5,000 Skill
• Hubs
• Rationalizing the cost of short-term vocational training with de-novo costing

What is the duration of training in Skill Hubs?

The duration of training in Skill Hubs can vary depending on the specific program and the skills being taught. Typically, The duration of any course under Skill Hub depends on the Job role
(180 hr-540 hr).

Please refer to the link provided https://www.pmkvyofficial.org/Find-course-of-your-choice.

What will be the batch-size under Skill Hub Initiative?

Allowed batch size in trainings under Skill Hub will be between 15-40 students. Meaning, minimum 15 candidates need to be enrolled in a batch and maximum candidates 40 can be enrolled in a batch.