Grameen Udyami Project: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 26 August 2022

Recently, National skill development corporation  in partnership with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society, launched the second phase of the Grameen Udyami Project.

✓Under the initiative, the endeavor is to multiskill India’s youth and impart functional skills to them for enabling livelihoods.

Grameen Udyami Project

✓It is a unique multiskilling project, funded by NSDC that aims to train 450 tribal students in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.

✓The project is being implemented in six states— Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Gujarat.

✓There is a dire need to increase ownership at the tribal level so that there is awareness built around such schemes and initiatives.

Significance:

✓As there is so much potential and ability in the tribal youth, all we need to do is lay down the right avenues for them to use their talent in the right places.

✓This initiative will provide economic empowerment to our tribal population.

Objectives:

✓Increase in Rural/Local Economy.

✓Enhance employment opportunities.

✓Reduce forced migration due to lack of local opportunities.

✓Conservation of natural resources