Which one of the following statements about the DDU – GKY is not correct?
- (a)It is a skill training programme.
- (b)It is for rural youth from poor families.
- (c)Its objective is placement in wage employment.
- (d)It relies entirely on skill training by Government agencies.
Correct — D, It relies entirely on skill training by Government agencies. The word that fails is 'entirely'. The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana does not train anybody itself; it sanctions projects to Project Implementing Agencies, and those agencies are overwhelmingly outside government — companies, industry bodies, trusts and non-governmental organisations, with well over seven hundred of them running more than fifteen hundred sanctioned projects across states and union territories. The Ministry of Rural Development sets the rules, funds the projects and audits the outcomes; the training is delivered by partners against a common framework of guidelines and standard operating procedures. That structure follows from the target the scheme sets itself. It is a placement-linked programme, requiring at least three-quarters of those who complete training to be placed in wage employment at a stated minimum salary, and an agency can only guarantee placement if it is close to the employers doing the hiring — which is precisely what a purely governmental training system is not.
- (a)It is a skill training programme. — Correct as stated, so it cannot answer a 'not correct' stem. The scheme's own description is a skilling and placement programme for rural youth, and kaushalya in the name means skill.
- (b)It is for rural youth from poor families. — Also correct. It targets poor rural youth aged 15 to 35, and it sits inside the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, which is the ministry's poverty programme — so the beneficiary definition is a rural poverty one.
- (c)Its objective is placement in wage employment. — Correct, and it is the statement most candidates suspect. The distinction being drawn is between wage employment, which is a job with an employer, and self-employment, which is what a different set of programmes supports. This scheme is measured on placement in wage employment, with a mandatory share of trainees to be placed.
Indian skilling programmes divide by what they promise at the end. Some train for self-employment and enterprise; this one trains for a job. Launched on 25 September 2014 under the Ministry of Rural Development, DDU-GKY funds project-based training with a placement obligation written into the contract, and pays implementing agencies against outcomes rather than merely against enrolment. That outcome discipline is what makes the partnership model necessary — the agencies that can place trainees are those with employer relationships.
In a 'not correct' item with three plausible statements, the fastest test is to look for the absolute word. 'Entirely' and 'only' are the usual planted failures, and here 'entirely by Government agencies' is doing all the work. A second habit worth building is to hold two questions about any skilling scheme: which ministry runs it, and what it promises — a job or a business. DDU-GKY belongs to Rural Development and promises a job; the industrial training and short-term skilling under the skill development ministry, and the self-employment training institutes attached to banks, sit elsewhere on that map. Anchoring to the exam, the scheme was recovering from pandemic disruption in early 2021, when residential training centres had been closed and placement targets slipped.
- DDU-GKY was launched on 25 September 2014 by the Ministry of Rural Development, within the National Rural Livelihoods Mission.
- It targets rural poor youth in the age group 15 to 35.
- It is placement-linked: at least 75 per cent of those who complete training are to be placed, at a stated minimum monthly salary.
- Training is delivered by Project Implementing Agencies — more than seven hundred partners running over fifteen hundred projects — against common guidelines and standard operating procedures.
- The placement promised is wage employment with an employer, as distinct from self-employment programmes.
- Missing the absolute word in a 'not correct' option; 'entirely' is what fails here.
- Confusing wage employment with self-employment when reading a skilling scheme's objective.
- Assuming a centrally funded programme must be delivered by government staff.
As a which-statement-is-not-correct item on a flagship scheme, or as a match-the-following pairing skilling programmes with their ministries.
How does the National Rural Livelihood Mission seek to improve livelihood options of rural poor? 1. By setting up a large number of new manufacturing industries and agribusiness centres in rural areas 2. By strengthening ‘self-help groups’ and providing skill development 3. By supplying seeds, fertilizers, diesel pump-sets and micro-irrigation equipment free of cost to farmers
- (a) 1 and 2 only
- (b) 2 only
- (c) 1 and 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(b) 2 only
The parent mission, and the same discipline about what a programme actually does. Strengthening self-help groups and providing skill development is the answer there; DDU-GKY is the skilling arm of that mission, delivered through partners rather than departmentally.
Which of the following is/are the sub-mission/sub-missions of the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM)? 1. Institutional training 2. Overseas employment 3. Leveraging of public infrastructure Select the correct answer using the code given below.
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 2 only
- (c) 1, 2 and 3
- (d) 2 and 3 only
Answer(c) 1, 2 and 3
The wider skilling architecture this scheme sits inside. CDS has asked about the national mission's sub-missions and about this rural programme's design, and both reward knowing which body promises training, which promises placement and which promises overseas work.
- practice — not a real PYQ
DDU-GKY is implemented under which one of the following ministries?
- (a)Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- (b)Ministry of Rural Development
- (c)Ministry of Labour and Employment
- (d)Ministry of Education
Answer(b) Ministry of Rural Development — the scheme sits within the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, which is why its beneficiary definition is a rural poverty one.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following best distinguishes DDU-GKY from a Rural Self Employment Training Institute programme?
- (a)DDU-GKY trains only women
- (b)DDU-GKY is measured on placement in wage employment
- (c)DDU-GKY operates only in metropolitan cities
- (d)DDU-GKY provides loans rather than training
Answer(b) DDU-GKY is measured on placement in wage employment — the self-employment institutes prepare trainees to start their own ventures instead.