National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) has informed that there has been no review yet of the target of providing skill development for 500 million people by 2022.

A national multi-skill programme called ‘Skill India’ is proposed to be launched as announced by the Finance Minister in his Budget Speech 2014-15 on 10th July 2014. It would skill the youth with an emphasis on employability and entrepreneur skills. It will also provide training and support for traditional professions like welders, carpenters, cobblers, masons, blacksmiths and weavers etc. Convergence of various schemes to attain this objective is also proposed.

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

Skill development initiative Skill India proposed to expand employability and entrepreneurship training and consolidate existing schemes. A national multi-skill programme titled Skill India is proposed to be launched to expand skill development, emphasising employability and entrepreneurship training, providing vocational support for traditional trades, and pursuing scheme convergence to align existing initiatives; no review has been reported of the stated training target.