Government needs Rs 6 lakh crore in 5 years for skill India plan: Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Government needs Rs 6 lakh crore in 5 years for skill India plan: Rajiv Pratap Rudy

The government would need a huge Rs 6 lakh crore in the next five years for training programmes to make people employable, a Union minister said on Thursday. "Countries which have high skilled workforce have high per capita income. Education is important but 12 years of education will not make you employable but 12 weeks of skill training will. We are now integrating it with education which should have done years ago," Minister of State for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy said at the launch of mass mobilisation campaign for Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana