Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ21466

This present study focuses on the Government’s initiatives in skill development in India since independence with various Institutional set up and policy initiatives. It highlights on the that major policies which govern the skill development in the country and how these initiatives led to the advent of major current schemes like Skill India Mission and Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. The Skill India Mission and the Skill Policy, which is PMKVY 2015, aimed to skill 40 crore youth in the country by 2022. The vision of the policy is to create an ecosystem conducive to an empowered economy which has a job ready skilled workforce by skilling on a large scale with speed and quality, based on industry recognised standards and to promote a culture of innovation-based entrepreneurship which can generate wealth and employment to ensure sustainable livelihoods for all citizens in the country. This paper deals with all the major initiatives in short detail in order to generate the theoretical understanding of nature and purpose of the initiative like NCVT, Apprentice Act, NSDC, Skill India Mission, PMKVY etc. The Skill development Ecosystem also has been explained to understand the functioning of Skill development programme in the country.