Kaushal Se Kal Badlenge: DDU-GKY

• 26 Sep 2020

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Recently, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has celebrated the foundation day of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) as “Kaushal Se Kal Badlenge” on the occasion of Antyodaya Diwas (25^th September).

Key Points

• Inaugurations and New Releases:
  
  • Agripreneurship (entrepreneurship in agriculture) Programme.
    
    • Agripreneurship is defined as generally, sustainable, community-orientated, directly marketed agriculture.
    • Sustainable agriculture denotes a holistic, systems-oriented approach to farming that focuses on the interrelationships of social, economic, and environmental processes.
  • Guidelines regarding Captive Employment under DDU-GKY.
    
    • Captive employers are businesses which can employ 500 or more in their own organisation or one of their subsidiaries and have suitable in-house training facilities.
  • Guidelines for Promotion of Integrated Farming Cluster (IFC).
    
    • Integrated Farming is a combined approach aimed at efficient sustainable resource management for increased productivity in the cropping system.
    • It has multiple objectives of sustainability, food security, farmer’s security and poverty reduction by involving livestock, vermicomposting, organic farming, etc.
  • Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for capacity building of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)/StartUps and providing incubation support in rural areas.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana

• MoRD announced it on Antyodaya Diwas in 2014.
• It is a demand-driven placement linked skill training initiative working under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
• It uses skill training and placement in wage employment as a tool to diversify income and enable sustained upward movement out of poverty.
• DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families.
• Achievements: Under DDU-GKY, 10.51 lakh rural youth have been trained and 6.65 lakh successfully placed so far.
  
  • All stakeholders need to bring more rural youths under DDU-GKY, who are interested to become independent and bring a change in society.
• Significance:
  
  • DDU-GKY and integrated farming initiatives for rural development across the country are important for greater success in skilling and placing the rural youth.
  • DDU-GKY has played a significant role in the context of Aatmanirbhar Bharat through skilling.

Antyodaya Diwas

• Every year, 25^th September is observed as Antyodaya Diwas to mark the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, one of the great thinkers and philosophers of the nationalist movement of the country.
• The Government of India announced it for the first time in 2014 along with the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana.
• Antyodaya means "uplifting the poorest of the poor" and the day aims to reach the person in the last mile.

Source: PIB