Smriti Irani chairs meeting of stakeholders on Samarth scheme

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New Delhi : A meeting of stakeholders on Samarth scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector under the Skill India Mission was held in New Delhi on May 14, 2018, to familiarise them with the scheme and its guidelines. The meeting was chaired by Union Minister for Textiles Smriti Zubin Irani.

The broad objective of the new scheme is to skill the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in the textile sector covering the entire value chain of textiles excluding spinning and weaving, according to a PIB release.

Minister of State for Textiles Ajay Tamta and Secretary, Textiles, Anant Kumar Singh also addressed the stakeholders. The concerns of the stakeholders and challenges facing them during implementation of the previous scheme were discussed at the meeting. Feedback from the stakeholders on how the scheme can contribute and benefit the textile industry and boost skill development in the respective sector was also discussed.

The scheme, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on December 20, 2017, is intended to provide demand driven, placement oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) compliant skilling programmes to incentivise and supplement the efforts of the industry in creating jobs in the textiles sectors. The scheme targets to train 10 lakh persons (9 lakh in organised and 1 lakh in traditional sector) over a period of 3 years (2017-20) with an outlay of Rs 1,300 crore. The guidelines of the scheme were released on April 23, 2018.

The meeting was attended by the senior officials of the Textiles Ministry, institutions and organizations under it, representatives of textile industry, State Governments, training institutions among others.