World Youth Skill Day Programme
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Human Resource
What is discussed under World Youth Skill Day Programme ?
- About the Day
- Impact of COVID Pandemic
- India and skill development
Why in News ?
Prime Minister addresses World Youth Skill Day Programme. He called for giving momentum to Skill India Mission by capitalising on the gains of last 6 years.
Key Facts
- United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay - Aims to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment decent work and entrepreneurship.
- The theme for 2021 World Youth Skills Day is Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic.
- World Youth Skills Day 2021 will pay tribute to the resilience and creativity of youth through the crisis.
- Impact of COVID Pandemic
- UNESCO estimates that schools were either fully or partially closed for more than 30 weeks.
- June 19 countries still had full school closures, affecting nearly 157 million learners and 768 million more learners were affected by partial school closures.
- ILO estimates show that globally, youth employment fell 8.7 per cent in 2020, compared with 3.7 per cent for adults.
- Young people aged 15-24 have been even more severely affected by the COVID-19 crisis than adults.
- Young women have been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to young men.
India and skill development
- More than 1.25 crore young persons have been trained under Pradhanmantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana.
- Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Under Skill India.
- The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood.
- Nation is fulfilling this visionary dream of Babasaheb through Skill India Mission.
- National Skill Development Mission
- National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015
- Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
- Skill Loan scheme
- Rural India Skill
- Going Online As Leaders -GOAL are helping tribal population with areas like art and culture, handicraft, textiles and digital literacy among tribal areas leading to entrepreneurship development among the tribal population.
- Van Dhan Yojna is effectively connecting the tribal society with new opportunities.
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