Ministry of Labour and Employment of India is implementing a scheme titled “Skill Development Initiative” which aims to train, test and certify skills of one million persons during the next five years with an outlay of Rs.550 crore. Government has decided to set up a National Skill Development Mission under which 1500 more Industrial Training Institutes and 50,000 Skill Development Centres are planned to be set up in the next five years in Public Private Partnership mode to train about 10 million persons per annum.
This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Shri Oscar Fernandes in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.