Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of any country. They have become even more important given the increasing pace of globalization and technological changes provide both challenges that taking place in the world. Countries with higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.

A basic problem with the skill development system is that the system is non-responsive to market, due to a demand—supply mismatch on several counts:  numbers, quality and skill types. It is also seen that the inflexibilities in the course/curriculum set-up, lead to oversupply in some trades and shortages in others. Of the trained candidates, the market outcomes as seen from placement/ absorption rates are reportedly very low.

Entrepreneurship Development Programmes:

To train the unemployed youths, Entrepreneurship Development Centre(EDC) has been established at Lucknow, Gorakhpur & Barabanki in collaboration with National Institute for Entreprneurship & Small Business Development, Govt. of India).

We operate vocational and technical training programmes for unemployed youths, who wish to have a skill to empower themselves and generate their own income.

Through our Skill & Entrepreneurship Development programmes, each person trained, subsequently becomes an employer of other people. This multiplier effect has been observed in those that have been trained.

Skill Development Programmes:

We have implemented various skill development programmes at Uttar Pradesh.