DDU-GKY

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
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DDU-GKY

Lucknow – Uttar Pradesh, India

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) announced by The Ministry of Rural Development on “Antyodaya Diwas”, on 25th September 2014. DDU-GKY also is a part of National Rural Livelihood Mission, which has dual tasks one is adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.

Project Description

DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. As a part of the Skill India campaign, it plays an instrumental role in supporting the social and economic programs of the government like the Make In India, Digital India, Smart Cities and Start-Up India, Stand-Up India campaigns. Over 180 million or 69% of the country’s youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth from poor families with no or marginal employment number about 55 million.

DDU-GKY takes pride in its partners and their ability to add value. Innovation from partners is encouraged to build scale and capacity… its unique implementation structure involves partners, who are by nature, committed to changing lives and are experts in their areas, they form a part of the Skilling Ecosystem integrated by DDU-GKY. Partners are supported through investment, capacity building, strategies for retention, linkages to international placement and technology support for training purposes.

U. P. Industrial Consultants Ltd. (UPICON) allotted DDU-GKY project with their 02 Centres, one is running from November, 2018 in Kanpur City for 02 districts- Kanpur Dehat and Raibarreli. Our 01 more centre in the pipeline in Orai, Jalaun district to empower rural poor people.

Benifits of the Projects

At present in Kanpur Centre, we have trained 386 candidates, in which 294 certified and 103 candidates successfully completed 03 months placement continuity on their work location. As per guidelines of the respected MORD, UPICON already provided Post Placement Support to all placed candidates.

In December, 2022, we are set up of new Centre in Orai, Jalaun district to empower rural poor peoples.