About NSDM

  • The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship launched the National Skill Development Mission on July 15, 2015, with the goal of achieving skill training convergence across sectors and states.
  • It attempts to expedite decision-making across sectors in order to achieve skilling at scale with speed and standards, in addition to consolidating and coordinating skilling efforts.

Objectives of this Mission

The Mission’s objectives are to:

  • Create an end-to-end skill development implementation framework that includes chances for lifelong learning. This includes incorporating skilling into the school curriculum, offering chances for excellent long and short-term skill training, providing gainful work, and ensuring that trainees’ career goals are met.
  • Create a framework for outcome-focused training that aligns employer/industry demand and workforce productivity with trainees’ objectives for long-term employment.
  • Create a sound quality assurance framework for skilling that applies to all Ministries, States, and private training providers to establish and enforce cross-sectoral, nationally and internationally recognised standards for skill training in the country.
  • Build skill development capacity in crucial unorganised industries (such as construction, which has few chances for skill training) and establish paths for re-skilling and up-skilling employees in these sectors to enable them to transition into formal sector jobs.
  • Ensure that there are enough high-quality choices for long-term skilling that are benchmarked against internationally accepted qualification standards, resulting in a highly qualified workforce.
  • Establish high-quality teacher training institutes to create a network of quality instructors/trainers in the skill development ecosystem.
  • Scale up skill training and capacity building efforts by leveraging existing public infrastructure and industry facilities.
  • Provide a pathway to international employment through specific programmes that are matched to global job requirements and benchmarked against international standards.