The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY),
the flagship program of Ministry of Rural Development, Government
of India, aims to provide skill training and wage employment
opportunities to rural youth. The Rural Self Employment Training
Institute (RSETI) is another program of Ministry of Rural
Development to provide skilling and self-employment opportunities
to rural youth. Both programs are being implemented by Rural
Skills Division of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of
India with the help of States/UTs.
Background of the Kaushal Panjee:
As States required a pool of eligible rural youth for both
these programs and rural youth needed a facility to apply for
training under these programs on 24x7 basis, with these basic
objectives, Kaushal Panjee was conceptualized and implemented as a
web & mobile based mobilization tool for registration of
beneficiaries for DDU-GKY and RSETI programs.
Mobilization of suitable candidates is crucial for success
of DDUGKY and RSETI programs. For this, there was need of a
database capturing demographic details as well as aspirations of
rural youth for the providing skill training. Before Kaushal
Panjee, there was no database of Rural Youth at National Level,
which can be used for promoting their livelihoods on sustainable
basis. This was creating hurdle in proper targeting of Rural Youth
in a specific geography for skilling. Even, Project Implementing
Agencies (PIAs) were being guided by their own understanding of
the geography and availability of rural youths there, leading to
uneven spread and coverage of rural areas for skilling. However,
following are the key areas which required immediate attention:
- Difficult for PIAs to reach to the remote
rural areas
- Less awareness among rural youth for the
program
- No standardized and centralized database of
candidates
- After registration no monitoring whether
joined the training program or not
- DDUGKY guidelines suggests youth database based on SECC
- No database of candidates interested in
wage employment or self employed
- Unavailability of details of special targets
group (SC, ST, minority)
- No centralized database of Employers and
their Job requirements
- No centralized database of Trainers and
their requirements by PIAs
About the Kaushal Panjee:
Kaushal Panjee was launched as a mobilization tool by the Hon.
Minister Sh. Narendra Singh Tomar on 25th Sept 2017 for
registration and upgrading skills of rural youths under MoRD'€™s
flagship skill development programmes i.e. DDU-GKY and RSETI. With
MIS integration, it captures complete life cycle of the candidate
from registration to placement, and it includes all stakeholders
MoRD, SRLM, PIA and employers. It is capable to fulfil the demand
as well as supply of skilled youth in India. Using Kaushal Panjee
tool, candidate details are captured and being maintained in GP
(Gram Panchayat) saturation mode. They also show interest for wage
or self-employment types of training. These candidates can be
identified as Deprived Households under SECC (Socio Economic and
Cast Census 2011)
Awards and Accolades:
Kaushal Panjee has won the Gold Award along with '€˜Award of
Merit' in Skill Category of SKOCH Awards 2018. It has also been
awarded for Digital Transformation Awards 2019 in the category of
Skills Development.
