Project objectives:

• Study the need and requirement of skill and capacity building of the youth in Karnataka.
• Understand and map the demographic characteristics of beneficiaries, their aspirations and willingness to participate in the program.
• Assess the quality and efficiency of PIAs in terms of mobilization of candidates, training and placement support.
• Study the programme’s sustainability, and overlapping and suggest further improvements in the scheme. Assess the convenience of the training course for beneficiaries.
• Understand the extent of migration and the effect of the scheme on migration.

Project Result / Accomplishments:

• The performance of the scheme in Karnataka in terms of placement rate is poor. Secondary data shows that the average placement rate during the five-year period from 2014-15 to 2018-19 is 36.68%.
• About 70% of female beneficiaries and 63.42% of male beneficiaries had resigned from the placement/first job due to Unsatisfactory salary and inconvenient location.
• Overall, only about 42% of the beneficiaries were employed in the first year after training for a continuous period of one year.
• Beneficiaries wish to start own business and doing home based job (25.48%) but DDU-GKY does not have self-employment or entrepreneurship component.