Hindustan Times: Pune: Friday, August 24, 2018.
The central
government has countered its own information revealed through an application
filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) which says only 89,627 jobs have
been given under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)
launched by the rural development ministry in 2014.
The RTI
application was filed by activist Vivek Velankar, founder of a city-based NGO
Sajak Nagarik Manch, on May 14 seeking details of jobs created under the
ambitious employment scheme of the central government.
While the
information given as the response to the RTI application has claimed only 89,
627 jobs were given, the central government officials have refuted the
information claiming it “wrong”.
Alka
Upadhyaya, joint secretary, ministry of rural development said, “The
information given by the RTI is wrong and incomplete. The DDU-GKY scheme of the
government of India is one of the best performing schemes of the rural
development ministry. So far, 5.67 lakh have been trained in different skill
development centres from across the country. Out of this, over 3 lakh 48
thousand have got jobs after the completion of the training.”
According to
Velankar, the rural development ministry had no information on the query raised
through the RTI. Ergo, the ministry then forwarded the RTI application to
National bank for agriculture and rural development (Nabard) which handed over
the information to the activist.
According to
the information released by Nabard, under the particular scheme, so far, only
89,627 jobs have been provided by the union government.
Upadhyaya
said, “I am not in possession of the exact knowledge given by Nabard under the
RTI. However, the information provided through the RTI application was wrong.”
According to
Upadhyaya, the details provided by the Nabard might be restricted to only the
centres under the jurisdiction of Nabard and not the overall centres in the
country.
Responding to
the claims by the government officials, Velankar said, “It is a serious concern
that the central government cannot provide the correct information in response
to the RTI. It is surprising that the RTI is being transferred internally owing
to lack of information.”
Perhaps, the
government has failed to monitor one of its own schemes, said Velankar.
The
ambitious scheme
According to
the information given by the central government:
Number of
candidates trained so far in the country: 5 lakh 67 thousand
Number of
candidates who have got the jobs: over 3 lakh 48 thousand
Information
given in response to the RTI:
Yearwise
breakup of jobs created:
2014-15:
7,416
2015-16:
29,908
2016-17:
30,947
2017-18:
21,356
Total number
of institutes given authorisation to run the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen
Kaushalya Yojana scheme in the country: 338
Statewise
breakup of the institutes:
1)
Maharashtra: 53
2)
Chhattisgarh: 46
3) Uttar
Pradesh: 49
4) Madhya
Pradesh: 31
5) Tripura: 6
6) Manipur: 6
7) Nagaland:
2
8) Mizoram: 2
9)
Uttarakhand: 11
10) Himachal
Pradesh: 13
11) Odisha:
119
Information
as per Nabard’s reponse to RTI
The
Details
Under the
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), the skill development
and placement programme of ministry of rural development (MoRD), government of
India, awareness programmes on skill development and placement for unemployed
educated and uneducated youths at the block headquarters are conducted.
Under
DDU-GKY, rural youths in the age group of 15-35 years can undergo skill
development and placement free of cost which is inclusive of food,
accommodation, uniforms, learning materials and one-time travel to place of
placement.
DDU-GKY
programme is implemented on private-public-partnership (PPP) mode, where
eligible organisations with valid permanent registration number (PRN) implement
the programme as project implementing partners (PIAs).
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