The National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) was notified on 6 June 2013 and has been functional ever since.

The NSDA is an autonomous body, with functions which inter alia include  taking all possible steps to meet skilling targets as envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan and beyond; coordinating and harmonizing the approach to skill development in the country; anchoring and operationalizing the National Skills Qualification Framework to ensure that quality and standards meet sector specific requirements; being the nodal agency for State Skill Development Missions; evaluating existing skill development schemes with a view to assessing their efficacy and suggesting corrective action to make them more effective; creating and maintaining a national database relating to skill development including development of a dynamic labour market information system; and ensuring that the skilling needs of the disadvantaged and the marginalized groups like SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, women and differently abled persons are taken care of.

NSDA is an agency that is mandated to coordinate the skilling effort of the Government of India. It is not mandated to skill a targeted number of people.  However, as per details provided by NSDA, the Ministry-wise physical achievements made during 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 are given in Annexure.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Annexure

Report on Persons Trained in the Financial Years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14
S. No.	Ministry/ Department/ Organisation	(Figures in Lakh Persons)
		2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
1	Ministry of Labour & Employment	19.52	8.20	14.80
2	Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises	4.29	5.50	5.98
3	Ministry of Agriculture	7.77	13.28	21.91
4	Department of Rural Development	3.18	5.42	5.36
5	Department of Higher Education	2.20	2.82	0.93
6	Ministry of Women & Child Development	0.77	1.01	0.87
7	Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation	2.79	5.25	5.93
8	Ministry of Tourism	0.27	0.58	0.96
9	Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment	0.23	0.42	0.38
10	Ministry of Textiles	0.34	0.71	1.07
11	Department of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises	0.16	0.22	0.28
12	Department of Electronics & Information Technology	2.35	3.68	5.54
13	National Skill Development Corporation	1.82	4.03	10.05
14	Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers	*	0.36	0.36
15	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region	*	0.01	0.004
16	Ministry of Food Processing Industries	*	*	0.08
17	Ministry of  Road Transport and Highways	*	0.09	*
18	Ministry of  Commerce and Industry	*	0.27	0.44
19	Ministry of Minority Affairs	*	*	0.41
20	Ministry of Tribal Affairs	*	0.03	0.45
21	Ministry of Home Affairs	*	*	0.04
Total		45.69	51.88	75.844

Coordination of national skill development: NSDA mandates harmonisation, quality standards, and consolidated training data. The National Skill Development Agency is an autonomous coordinating body mandated to harmonize national skilling efforts, operationalize the National Skills Qualification Framework, serve as nodal agency for State Skill Development Missions, evaluate existing schemes and maintain a national skills database and labour market information system, while ensuring inclusion of disadvantaged groups; the press release provides Ministry-wise training figures for 2011-12 to 2013-14 as an annexure, emphasizing NSDA's coordinating and data-consolidation role rather than direct delivery of training targets.