Kaushal abhiyan

This article contains translated text and the factual accuracy of the translation should be checked by someone fluent in Punjabi and English. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana प्रधान कौशल विकास योजना Country Ministry Launched 16July 2015 ;7 years ago ( 2015-07-16) Status Active Website .pmkvyofficial .org Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana ( PMKVY) or otherwise known as Pradhan Mantri Youth Training Program The aim of the PMKVY scheme is to encourage aptitude towards employable skills and to increase working efficiency of probable and existing daily wage earners, by giving monetary awards and rewards and by providing quality training to them. Average award amount per person has been kept as ₹8,000 (US$100). Those wage earners already possessing a standard level of skill will be given recognition as per scheme and average award amount for them is ₹2000 to ₹2500. In the initial year, a target to distribute ₹15 billion (US$190million) has been laid down for the scheme. Training programmes have been worked out on the basis of National Occupational Standards (NOS) and qualification packs specifically developed in various sectors of skills. For this qualification plans and quality plans have been developed by various Sector Skill Councils (SSC) created with participation of Industries. An outlay of ₹120 billion (US$1.5billion) has been approved by the cabinet for this project. See also [ ] • • References [ ]

Notes: The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi has launched a customized crash course programme for Covid-19 frontline workers, which would make available trained health workers across the country to assist the battle against covid. The course has been launched with a financial outlay of Rs.276 crore under the Central Component of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0. Notes: The National Green Tribunal has set up a committee for rejuvenation of rivers Varuna and Assi in Varanasi, both of which joins the river Ganga. This move has been made by the tribunal after taking note of the reported discharge of untreated sewage in these rivers and unauthorised constructions on the banks of these rivers. Notes: The CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) has entered into a partnership with Tata group’s health care venture “Tata MD”. This partnership aims to increase the Covid-19 testing capacity across Tier 2 and 3 towns and in rural regions of the country. Under this partnership, Tata MD CHECK SARS-CoV-2 test kits would be extensively used to perform RT-PCR tests across the CSIR labs in India. Notes: India, Italy and Japan have launched a trilateral, through a virtual meeting in which India was represented by the Union Ministry of External Affairs. This trilateral aims to create stability and a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region, which is based on “consent of all” and not “power of the few”. Notes: Zambia’s founding president Mr. Kenne...

• PM Modi announced about PKVY skill development program at the fourteenth edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas • PKVY is aimed at imparting skill training to Indian youth seeking employment overseas • PKVY is launched as a means of showing respect to the contributions made by Indians overseas by ensuring their welfare and safety • PKVY launched after the inauguration of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at Bengaluru. • PKVY is to be launched to address the brain drain challenge into brain gain • PKVY will help boost the confidence of Indian youth when they land abroad • Skill development is given to Indian youth based on the vocation they choose • PKVY will ensure that Indian youth will not feel as strangers in foreign nations • The training program will be of international standards • Indian youth will be trained and certified under PKVY Nodal Agency: • Implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) • Ministry of External Affairs • Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship • Training partners of NSDC Benefits: • PKVY will keep safety and security of Indian working abroad as the top most priority • Welfare of the overseas Indians is ensured through external affairs ministry • External affairs ministry will come to the aid of overseas Indians in distress through social media • PKVY will help keep a track record of the Indian youth going abroad after getting trained in the skill development program • PKVY will aid in making India the World’s Skill capital • PKVY ...

National Seminar on Nasha Mukt Samaj Andolan Abhiyan Kaushal Ka: Socio-Legal, Psychological and other Ways for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Addiction in India Organized By Central University of Punjab, Bathinda In collaboration with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. About the Conference Alcohol and Drug abuse have been common evils in almost all societies in the world since time immemorial. These evils have arisen out of either therapeutic or hedonistic considerations or as a means of relaxation from the stresses and strains of the day-to-day life. The fast changing social milieu is mainly contributing to the proliferation of alcohol and drug abuse among many other factors. The complex interaction between alcohol and drugs, the individual and the setting in which the drug abuse taken has resulted in several social, economic and health related problems which sometimes end in tragic deaths. Millions of alcohol and drug addicts all over the world are leading miserable lives. India too is caught in this vicious circle of alcohol and drug abuse. The substantial increase in the number of the addicts day by day has become a matter of grave concern. The hazard of the menace of alcohol and drug abuse needs to be checked, as the cost to the people, environment and nations economy are monumental. Moreover, the spread of such reprehensible habits among the relatively young segment of society ought to be arrested at all cost. The time has come for govern...