The Union governments Skilling India initiative is focussing on the post-Covid pandemic era on preventing the Migration of the rural youth to the cities by providing Skill development training in villages and localities on Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and non-agricultural sectors.
Over three crore youths have been imparted skill development training in India since 2015-16. But the Covid-19 pandemic adversely impacted their EMPLOYMENT opportunities. So now, the Skilling India programme has added a new objective to its existing ones and that is providing training in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors so that rural youths earn their livelihoods in their villages and do not migrate to cities.