NEW DELHI: More than 1.70 crore rural poor youth across the country have been trained under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) till January 2019, the Government said on Thursday.
Replying to a query raised in the Lok Sabha on imparting skill development training to rural youth living in Naxal-infested and terrorism-affected areas, Minister of State for Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav said, “The Government is implementing the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a placement-linked skill development programme for rural poor youth under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) all over the country.”
“Under the DDU-GKY, a special initiative called Roshni has been launched that takes into account the peculiar situations in 27 Left wing extremist-affected districts,” he said.
In a written reply to the query, the minister told the Lok Sabha, “Every candidate undergoing training under DDU-GKY is given mandatory basic training in Information Technology for 80 Hours. During the year 2018-19 (upto 31st January, 2019), 1,76,630 candidates have been provided training.”
He said the Government aims to train two lakh youth under the programme during the financial year 2018-19.
The maximum number of youth proposed to be trained are from Uttar Pradesh (21,417 youth), followed by Odisha (20,153), Bihar (17,236) and Jammu and Kashmir (14,414 youth). (AGENCIES)