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The 5th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU approved Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹735.70 crore for ITI clusters in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.
This takes the total sanctioned investment under PM-SETU to ₹2,171 crore across nine ITI clusters.
The three clusters are Bhiwadi (Rajasthan, ₹241.00 crore, anchored by H.G. Infra Engineering Limited), Medchal (Telangana, ₹254.30 crore, anchored by ZEN Technologies Limited) and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh, ₹240.40 crore, submitted by NSDC).
Rajasthan became the first state to execute a Shareholders' Agreement under the scheme, signed among H.G. Infra Engineering, the Government of Rajasthan and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
The committee was chaired by Smt Debashree Mukherjee, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Transform government Industrial Training Institutes through industry-led partnerships, modern infrastructure and employability-linked training.
Key: Approved by the Union Cabinet in May 2025 with a ₹60,000 crore outlay over five years — ₹30,000 crore from the Centre, ₹20,000 crore from states and ₹10,000 crore from industry. It covers the upgradation of 1,000 government ITIs on a hub-and-spoke design of 200 hubs, each mentoring about four spokes, and the development of five National Skill Training Institutes into Centres of Excellence.
The core long-term vocational training programme delivered through ITIs, introduced in 1950.
Key: Administered by the Directorate General of Training; the network of ITIs that PM-SETU upgrades exists to run this scheme.
The umbrella skilling effort of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Key: Combines short-term training, apprenticeship and the Jan Shikshan Sansthan stream; PM-SETU is the ITI-infrastructure arm of the same ministry's effort.
Apex organisation for the development and coordination of vocational training, including the Craftsmen Training Scheme run through ITIs and the National Skill Training Institutes.
National regulator for the vocational education and training ecosystem; sets standards and regulates awarding bodies and assessment agencies. It subsumed the National Skill Development Agency and the earlier National Council for Vocational Training.
Public-private partnership body promoting skill development through private-sector training providers; it submitted the Meerut cluster's Strategic Investment Plan.
One well-equipped Hub ITI receives the advanced machinery, digital resources and new courses, and shares them with about four nearby Spoke ITIs. Capital-intensive equipment is bought once for a cluster rather than duplicated at every institute, and an anchor industry partner designs the training.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Government Policies and Interventions for Development in Various Sectors
General Awareness > Government Schemes
'Recognition of Prior Learning Scheme' is sometimes mentioned in the news with reference to
Answer: Certifying the skills acquired by construction workers through traditional channels.
With reference to Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, consider the following statements: 1. It is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. 2. It, among other things, will also impart training in soft skills, entrepreneurship, financial and digital literacy. 3. It aims to align the competencies of the unregulated workforce of the country to the National Skill Qualification Framework. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 2 and 3 only
The "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana" (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of which Ministry?
Answer: Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
The "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0" was launched in:
Answer: 2021
The cluster-level investment proposal prepared with the anchor industry partner, cleared first by the State Steering Committee and then by the National Steering Committee.
The company that leads the modernisation of an ITI cluster, shaping courses and co-investing under a Shareholders' Agreement with the state and the Centre.
The long-term vocational training programme introduced in 1950 and delivered through ITIs under the Directorate General of Training.