- Focus on rural youth from poor families in the age group of 15 to 35 years of age:
- MGNREGA worker households, with a minimum of 15 days of completed work
- RashtriyaSwasthyaBim Yojana (RSBY) households
- Antyodaya Anna Yojana card holding households
- BPL PDS card holding households
- NRLM-SHG households
- Households covered under auto inclusion parameters of Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011
- With Social Inclusion in its composition:
- SC : 2%
- ST : 22%
- Minorities : 12%
- General : 64%
- Total : 100%
- Women : 33%
- Persons with Disabilities : 3%
- Special projects for special groups such as victims of trafficking, manual scavengers, trans-genders, rehabilitated bonded labour and other vulnerable groups
- With PioneeringProgressive Innovation in its design :
- Support for retention
- Support for Career Progression
- Support for International Placement
- Standard Operating Procedures to define quality with transparency and accountability
- Ownership of the entire lifecycle of the training and development process:
- Planning
- Implementation
- Monitoring
- Through Market-linked, training process in PPP mode with partners that commit to quality :
- Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs)
- Curriculum framing and Assessment through NCVT (National Council on Vocational Training) or SSCs (Sector Skills Councils) of NSDC
- Industry partnerships for latest technology and trends
- Spanning over 250 trades and skills, as demanded and modified from time to time:
- From Jewellery to Counter Sales to IT-enabled Services to Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Construction working
- Dedicated courses for soft skills, spoken English and basic computers
- In residential as well as non-residential well equipped campuses, with adequate technology as per industry norms and standards
- Evidenced training performance record through geo-tagged time stamped biometric attendance at centres
- Assuring placement of 70% of all trainees, through support to the PIA as well as relationships with industry under ‘Champion Employers’ and other Schemes
- With a minimum recommended monthly salary of Rs. 6,000/-
- And a top-up monetary support where needed to ensure retention of job
- Tracking performance post placement, supporting and offering career progression support to graduates and Project Implementing Agencies Awarding and rewarding performance through a Quality Certification Program