SME Times News Bureau | 15 May, 2018
A
meeting of stakeholders on Samarth – Scheme for Capacity Building
in Textile Sector under the Skill India Mission was held on
Monday
in New Delhi to familiarize the stakeholders about the scheme and its
guidelines.
The
meeting was chaired by Union Minister of Textiles Zubin Irani.
The
broad objective of the new scheme is to skill the youth for gainful
and sustainable employment in the textile sector covering the entire
value chain of textiles, excluding spinning and weaving.
Minister
of State for Textiles Ajay Tamta and Secretary, Textiles, Shri Anant
Kumar Singh also addressed the stakeholders. The concerns of the
stakeholders and challenges faced by them during implementation of
the previous scheme were discussed in the meeting.
Feedback
from the concerned stakeholders on how the scheme can contribute and
benefit the textile industry and boost skill development in the
respective sector was also discussed.
The
scheme, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 20th
of December last year, is intended to provide demand driven,
placement oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF)
compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and supplement the
efforts of the industry in creating jobs in the textiles sectors.
The
scheme targets to train 10 lakh persons (9 lakh in organised and 1
lakh in traditional sector) over a period of 3 years (2017-20), with
an outlay of Rs. 1300 crore. The guidelines of the scheme were
released on 23rd of April 2018.
The
meeting was attended by the senior officials of the Textiles
Ministry, institutions and organizations under it, representatives of
textile industry, State Governments, training institutions among
others.