Annual Report 2011-12.pdf - Performance Management Division

8. Capacity Building and
Awareness Generation of
Workers under MGNREGA
by NYKS supported by
Ministry of Rural
Development
1. N.E. Youth Festival
2. National Youth Festival
3. J& K Youth Festival
4. Same earth programme
5. Tribal Youth Exchange
Project is aim to develop the
capacity Building of NYKS Youth
Club at village and involving
them in the implementation of
creating awareness among
workers/ households about their
rights , privileges and provision
under MGNREGA.
The project covers 10 States 200
districts, 2000 Blocks & 80,000
villages.
Under the project 193
DACYP meeting, 185
District Level
Convention, 1715 Block
Level Orientation ,
Training of 170 NYC
and survey work of in
46795 villages were
organized.
I. Scheme being implemented in collaboration with International Bodies
NYKS in collaboration with United Nations Fund for Population Activities implemented the
project of “Adolescent Health and Development” in 10 districts of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Orissa and Rajasthan. A total of 2464 youth/adolescent were benefited through
the project activities.
YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY SKILL (YES) PROJECT:
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Hon'ble Minister, Youth Affairs and Sports on 4 April, 2011 has launched a new Employability
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Skill (YES) Project on 4 April,2011 in Imphal, Manipur pilot basis to impart training in
employable skills to unemployed youth.
Keeping in view the fact that more than 70% of our people are below the age of 35 and collating this
impressive data with the figures of under and unemployability based on thorough skill gap
analysis, the Ministry has in collaboration with the NATIONAL Skill development Council and
the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) started the Youth Employability Skill (YES)
Project. The pilot project which was started in two districts of the North East with 200 Youth
volunteers was unprecedented success with more than 150 of them getting suitably employed
across the country. While 1000 youth volunteers across 58 districts of 8 states in the North East
have been trained so far, the aim is to train 8000 youth during the coming year in the North East.
1. National Integration Camps (NICs)
During the current financial year (2011-12) the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports sanctioned 28
State level and 200 District level (228 camps in total) National Integration Camps to as many
Nehru Yuva Kendras across the country. The objectives of the NIC are to bring youth from
different parts of the country on common platform; give them opportunity to understand cultural
heritage of the country; enable them to recognize threads of unity in diversity which bind every
Indian together. Efforts are made to instill and develop in youth the feeling of brotherhood and
fraternity.
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