Projects for skill development as per norms prescribed by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and related facilities and infrastructure for conducting Skill Development Activities conducted by the Government Skill Development Institutions.

Classification of Skill Development Programmes: Skill Development can be broadly classified in the following categories:

a. Up-skilling/Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): The duration of the training programmes will be 32 to 80 hours and spaced over up to one month, duly keeping in mind the occupational hours of the trainees.

b. Short Term Courses (focus on women and self-employment): The duration of the training programmes will be normally 200 hours to 600 hours and up-to 5 months or as stipulated in National Occupational Standards (NOS) and Qualification Packs (QPs).

c. Entrepreneurial Development Programmes (EDP): The duration of the training will normally be 80 hours (10 days) or as stipulated in MoRD Guidelines.

d. Long Term Courses (for global class skills for those educated up to 10th class or more): The duration of the training programmes will be six months and above and usually up to 1 year, as stipulated by the concerned Board/Regulatory Body of the training centre. iii. Skill Development Institutions: a. Training Programmes shall be executed by: i) State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs) who are expected to have ground level knowledge of the skill aspirations and employment opportunities in their state as also access to literature on Skill Gap analysis carried out by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). ii) Affiliated Training Providers (TPs) of SSDM/SSCs/TIs. iii) National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) over the past five years have identified some credible Training institutes (mostly government or having significant government holding) as also Sector Skill Councils, some foundations/trusts of corporate excellence, who have a good track record of conducting relevant skill training programmes and placing the trained candidates. List of these agencies is available at the web portal of this scheme. iv) Other institutions having a good track record of conducting relevant skill training programmes and placing the trained candidates. b. The institutes shall also be recognized by the concerned entities for carrying out the said training. Proof of valid affiliation and other details in this regard must be checked. Any further outsourcing by the affiliated TPs of Training, is strictly prohibited and occurrence of same, once noted by States/UTs, shall result in corrective measures including but not limited to cancellation of the said training programmes at the risk and cost of the Training Partner. c. Partners for Long Term Training should have experience of having successfully trained at least 1000 candidates under long term training during the last 3 years with track record of providing placement to 70% or more of the trained candidates. These Skill Training Programmes should have been implemented only in Centres owned by the Training Partners and not in Centres of Franchisee/Partners. Page 25 of 46 iv. Selection of Course, Course Content, Infrastructure and other requirements: a. The Skill Gap Analysis report of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) shall be factored while proposing the skilling areas/job roles to be implemented in different States/Districts. The same are to be duly endorsed by relevant District Skilling Authority or authorized functionary of State Skill Development Mission, confirming that the proposals are relevant to the District/State, in terms of aspiration of the target group and availability of job market. b. All Training Partners must ensure compliance of National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) for the courses imparted & pursuance of Common Norms issued by MSDE amended from time to time specifically with regard to basic infrastructure of centres, assessment/re-assessment, Certification, Placement, Monitoring, eligibility of Training Partners and Training of Trainers (TOT). The Institutes may also share the training cost if it wish to do so. c. In case of Long Term Training, the curriculum of the training programmes will be as per NSQF, NCVT, AICTE, MSME, and other reputed certification programmes including those run by State Government entities. Availability of requisite infrastructure as per the guidelines of the concerned regulatory body, for conducting long term skill training and Certification provided shall be aligned with the processes of the concerned training programmes. d. All training programmes must necessarily have a component of financial literacy and preparation of basic project proposal to enable linkage with Banks for assistance to start a self-employment venture. v. Selection of Beneficiary Trainees: a. Mobilization of the candidates will be done through various means of publicity by the State and/or District Administration. b. Selection Committee Meetings will be held for selection of the candidates which will mandatorily include a functionary of the State govt./District Administration and/or their undertaking, esp. in case of private training partners. c. Identification of beneficiaries should be carried carefully after assessing the interest of the candidates in the skill proposed to be imparted. For ensuring transparency in the process, the State Governments Training Partner/their TP should issue advertisement in print media, social media etc. and thereafter holding of selection meeting. d. Alternatively, the State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs) and identified Govt. Training Institutes(TI)/Sector Skill Councils (SSCs) may also identify available artisan clusters taking help of State Channelizing Agencies of National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) / National SafaiKarmcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) and other Government agencies especially for undertaking up-skilling/re- Page 26 of 46 skilling programmes for such persons at convenient locations & time schedule so that their livelihood is not affected. vi. Expected Outcomes: a. The trained candidates should be facilitated for placement in wage/selfemployment. Third party assessment and certification of the candidates will be done after successful completion of the training programme. b. The targeted outcome of the Skill Development Programmes will be as under: i) Up-skilling Programmes: Enhancement of earnings of livelihood as selfcertified by the beneficiaries. ii) Short Term Training Programmes: The overall placement of the trained persons should by 70% in wage/self-employment. iii) Entrepreneurship Development Programme: After completion of EDP training, at least 70% candidates should be self-employed and/or wage employed to earn their livelihood. iv) Long Term Training Programmes: The overall placement of the trained persons should be 70% in wage/self-employment with at least 70% of those employed being in wage employment. vii. Training Costs: The compensation of training cost should be limited to the extent of Common Cost Norms (CCN) or NCVT Guidelines as applicable from time to time. The payment should be done on milestone basis only