PM DAKSH: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 27 May 2022

PM DAKSH

✓Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched ‘PM-DAKSH’ (Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi) Portal and ‘PM-DAKSH’ Mobile App to make the skill development schemes accessible to the target groups – Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Safai Karamcharis.

✓PM-DAKSH Yojana is being implemented from the year 2020-21.

✓Under this, eligible target groups are provided with the skill development training programmes on Short Term Training Program; Up-Skilling/Reskilling; Entrepreneurship Development Programme, and Long Term Training Programme.

✓These training programmes are being implemented through the government training institutes, sector skill councils that have been constituted by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and other credible institutions.

✓Eligibility:

•Marginalized persons of SC (Scheduled Caste), OBC (Other Backward Classes), Economically Backward Classes, Denotified tribes, Sanitation workers including waste pickers, manual scavengers, transgenders and other similar categories.

✓Implementation:

It is implemented by the three Corporations under the Ministry:

•National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC),

•National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC),

•National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC).