Skill India
Objectives:
The chief objective of the Skill India Mission is to provide market-relevant skills training to more than 40 crore
young people in the country by the year 2023.
The mission intends to create opportunities and space for the development of talents in Indian youth.
It aims to develop those sectors which have been put under skill development for the last many years, and
also to recognize new sectors for skill development.
Other objectives:
1. Closing the gap between skill required by the industry and skills people possess for employment
generation.
2. Reducing poverty in the country.
3. Increasing the competitiveness of Indian businesses.
4. Ensuring that skill training imparted is relevant and of quality.
5. Preparing Indians to take on the world manpower/resources market.
6. Diversifying the existing skill development programmes to meet today’s challenges.
7. Building actual competencies rather than giving people mere qualifications.
8. Offering opportunities for lifelong learning for developing skills.
9. Augmenting better and active engagement of social partners and building a strong public-private
partnership in skill development.
10. Mobilising adequate investments for financing skills development sustainable.
