‘Placement poor under Kaushalya Yojana in Karnataka’

The performance in terms of placement is poor in Karnataka under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a demand-driven, placement-linked skill development scheme by the Union Ministry of Rural Development, said a report of the Karnataka Evaluation Authority (KEA). The KEA, which evaluated the performance of the scheme from 2014–15 to 2018–19, said the average placement rate during the five-year period had been 36.68%, “which is far below the minimum placement of 70% envisaged by the scheme guidelines and is also below the overall national placement rate”.