Skill India: A Swot Analysis

Abstract

Due to the advent of technological changes in all the walks of life coupled with Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization has drastically changed conventional pattern in almost all the sectors. Competition has increased a lot and as far as economic development is concerned, India lags behind due to various problems like unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, gender bias, corruption and many more. To compete with other nations, India must need skilled and trained people. So, to train people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a campaign ‘Skill India’ on 15^th July, 2015. It was started with the aim to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022. It includes various initiatives of the Government of India like “National Skill Development Mission”, “National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015”, “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)” and “The Skill Loan Scheme”. This paper aims to identify how far skill development programmes achieved success and to analyze its strength, weakness, opportunities and threats of this campaign.