Captive Employment: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 20 May 2023

Captive Employment

The Ministry of Rural Development has launched a new initiative called “Captive Employment” under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) program.

Who are captive employers?

✅Any Employer or Industry that provides employment to candidates in their own organization or one of its subsidiaries and has suitable in-house training facilities.

Features:.

✅It aims to train and place more than 31,000 rural youth in their own establishment or subsidiary companies.

✅The trained candidates are assured post-training placement of a minimum of six months with a minimum CTC of Rs 10,000/-.