{"id":3110,"date":"2023-02-15T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:52:11","slug":"what-is-rail-kaushal-vikas-yojana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-rail-kaushal-vikas-yojana\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a skill development scheme with a special focus on providing training for jobs that are relevant to the Railways.<\/li>\n<li>It is a sub-scheme under <strong>Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana<\/strong> (PMKVY).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry<\/strong>: Ministry of Railway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0Key Features of the scheme<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The training is imparted in fourteen (14) industry-relevant technical trades such as Electrician, Welder, Machinist, Fitter etc.<\/li>\n<li>The training is provided free of cost to the candidates and there is <strong>no provision for providing employment<\/strong> under this scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Participants will be selected from applications received online, following a transparent mechanism based on marks in matriculation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong> Candidates, who had passed class X and are aged between 18 and 35 are eligible to apply.<\/li>\n<li>After the end of the program, trainees have to pass a standardized assessment followed by a certificate in the allotted trade by the National Rail and Transportation Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the objective of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana?<\/h3>\n<p>The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1899152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Railways imparts training to more than 15000 Candidates under Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana focus on providing training for jobs that are relevant to the Railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}