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Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)

  • Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) is the skill and placement initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (MoRD). It evolved out of the need to diversify incomes of the rural poor and to cater to the occupational aspirations of their youth. DDU-GKY aims to skill rural youth who are poor and provide them with jobs having regular monthly wages at or above the minimum wages. It is one of the clusters of initiatives of MoRD that seeks to promote rural livelihoods. It is a part of the Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) - the Mission for poverty reduction. There is a continuum of skills that are required in an economy and there are various ways in which to acquire them. In India, while higher-level skills have received some attention, the same cannot be said for skills for which formal education is not a prerequisite. This means that the poor are doubly hit – first because of poverty and second because of poor access to formal education. DDU-GKY seeks to fill this gap by imparting specific set of knowledge, skills and attitude needed by the poor to access full time jobs with regular monthly wages.

    • The target groups for skilling are candidates in the age group 15 – 35 years from rural poor households.
    • The target given by MoRD for ASRLMS is 78,508 rural youths, which will be trained and placed in jobs with regular wages within FY 2016-2019.
    • The programm is implemented in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs).
    • Rural poor youth beneficiaries from families who have been working 15 days or more in each of the past 3 years under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), SHG member’s family members etc. will be given preference as beneficiaries under the Project. There will be preference for disadvantaged groups and differently abled.

    Project Implementation Status -
    Start Date : 24 Sept 2014
    End Date: 17 July 2019