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The Ministry of Rural Development will start DDU-GKY 2.0 training batches across most States and Union Territories from October 2026.
In the first phase, 1,164 batches covering 34,920 rural youth begin training in 14 States/UTs, against a sanctioned target of 3,57,112 trainees by 31 December 2027.
Targets for the two-year period 2026-28 have been allotted to all 31 participating States and UTs; 24 of them have already assigned 5.6 lakh targets across more than 1,200 projects.
States must allot targets to Project Implementing Agencies by 31 October 2026 and complete State Treasury Portal integration by 30 September 2026.
Diversify the incomes of poor rural families and give rural youth placement-linked skill training leading to wage employment.
Key: Announced on 25 September 2014, Antyodaya Diwas, by the Ministry of Rural Development. It grew out of the skilling 'special projects' of the Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana, which were renamed Aajeevika Skills when SGSY became the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. DDU-GKY 2.0, in force since April 2025, widens the model beyond wage placement to cover self-employment and gig work.
Reduce rural poverty by organising poor households into self-help groups and enabling self-employment and skilled wage employment.
Key: Launched in June 2011 as Aajeevika - NRLM by the Ministry of Rural Development and renamed Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - NRLM in 2015. DDU-GKY is its placement-linked skilling arm.
Umbrella framework for vocational skilling across ministries, addressing India's low share of formally skilled workers.
Key: Launched on 15 July 2015, World Youth Skills Day, under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Credit-linked training that hand-holds rural trainees into setting up micro-enterprises.
Key: Bank-sponsored institutes working with the Ministry of Rural Development; candidates register through the same Kaushal Panjee portal used for DDU-GKY.
Not-for-profit public-private body that funds and enables private skill training providers and works through Sector Skill Councils.
Nodal ministry for DDU-GKY, DAY-NRLM and RSETIs; allots targets to States, which in turn allot them to Project Implementing Agencies.
A competency-based framework notified on 27 December 2013 that places every qualification on one of ten levels defined by learning outcomes, so that formal, non-formal and informal learning can be compared on a single scale.
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Training in which the provider is paid partly on the basis of trainees actually placed in jobs, not merely certified.
The training provider to which a State allots DDU-GKY targets; it mobilises candidates and runs the batches.
A scheme funded jointly by the Centre and the States and implemented by State governments, unlike a Central Sector Scheme funded wholly by the Union.