DDU-GKY Scheme & Eligibility

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) is a placement linked skill development program for rural poor youth under National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). It is a market-led, placement linked skill development program completely funded by Central and State Governments for providing wage employment to rural poor youth. 

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) scheme has its origin in the wage employment linked “Special Projects” for skilling component of the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY), which was subsequently renamed as Aajeevika Skills when SGSY was converted as NRLM. Taking into account the focus on improving quality and employment outcomes in the National Policy on Skill Development, and need to increase the coverage of Skill Development program in remote rural areas, the scheme has been announced as DDU-GKY on 25th September 2014. The skilling program for rural youth has now been refocused and re-prioritized to build the capacity of rural poor youth to address the needs of domestic and global skill requirements 

The target group for DDU-GKY is poor rural youth in the age group of 15-35. However, the upper-age limit for women candidates, and candidates belonging to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), Transgender and other Special Groups like rehabilitated bonded labour, victims of trafficking, manual scavengers, trans-genders, HIV positive persons, etc shall be 45 years.

The poor will be identified by a process called Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP) which is an important component of the NRLM strategy. Till the time poor are identified through the use of PIP, apart from the existing list of Below Poverty Line (BPL) households, youth from MGNREGA worker household with at least 15 days work in the previous financial year by any of its family members, or a youth from a household with RSBY card wherein the details of youth is mentioned in the card, or a youth from households who have been issued Antyodaya Anna Yojana / BPL PDS cards, or a youth from a household where a family member is a member of SHG under NRLM, or a youth from a household covered under auto inclusion parameters as per SECC, 2011 (when notified), shall also be eligible to avail the skilling program even if such youth are not in the BPL list.

• 100% free courses with Government Aid
• NSDC Approved Courses with valid certification
• Assured job placement
• Post Placement Support
• Monitoring & Evaluation