Khadi and Village Industries see highest placements under MSME Ministry skill development training

New Delhi, Feb 16 (KNN) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), which undertakes the development of khadi and village industries in the country, has enabled employment or self-employment opportunities for 60,797 people trained at its institutions in 2020-21.

This is the highest among six different organizations under the MSME Ministry providing skill development training to youth, official data showed. 

Total 69,831 people were trained as of February 28, 2021, for various skill-based jobs and entrepreneurship across centres established by KVIC, Tool Rooms, National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC), National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME), Coir Board, and Technology Centre Systems Programme (TCSP) Division.

87 percent of trainees who were trained and placed, which meant they either found a job or started their own business, came from 18 KVIC institutions in the country, as per data from MSME Ministry’s Dashboard. 

The remaining 12.3 per cent or 8,646 trainees were trained at 18 MSME Tool Rooms. 

The remaining 229 trainees and 159 trainees were trained at 14 NSIC centres and 15 TCSP centres respectively. 

NI-MSME and Coir Board had zero placements despite training 9,217 and 4,548 individuals during the year. The total trainees trained across six organizations during 2020-21 stood at 2.18 lakh.

KVIC had led the placement table for 2018-19 and 2019-20 as well. Out of 88,484 trainees placed in 2018-19, 63 percent were trained at KVIC centres while 26.7 percent were trained at Tool Rooms and 10 percent at NSIC centres. 

NI-MSME, Coir Board and TCSP Division saw zero placements. In 2019-20, KVIC had a share of 53.5 per cent in total 93,647 trainees placed during the year in comparison to 33.3 percent share of Tool Rooms and 8.4 percent of NSIC. 

NI-MSME, Coir Board, and TCSP Division had shares of only 0.99 per cent, 3.6 per cent, and 0.03 per cent respectively. (KNN Bureau)