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Context:

Third phase of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 3.0) will be launched soon. It will be launched in 600 districts across all states of India.

• Spearheaded by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), this phase will focus on new-age and COVID-related skills.

 About PMKVY 3.0:

Skill India Mission PMKVY 3.0 envisages training of eight lakh candidates over a scheme period of 2020-2021.

• The 729 Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs), empaneled non-PMKK training centres and more than 200 ITIs under Skill India will be rolling out PMKVY 3.0 training to build a robust pool of skilled professionals.
• On the basis of the learning gained from PMKVY 1.0 and PMKVY 2.0, the Ministry has improved the newer version of the scheme to match the current policy doctrine and energize the skilling ecosystem affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 About PMKVY:

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), launched in 2015, is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) implemented by National Skill Development Corporation.

• 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.
• Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

 Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 2.0 (PMKVY 2.0) 2016-20

After the successful implementation of pilot PMKVY (2015-16), PMKVY 2016-20 was launched by scaling up both in terms of Sector and Geography and by greater alignment with other missions of Government of India like Make in India, Digital India, Swachh Bharat, etc.

Objectives of PMKVY 2016-20

Enable and mobilize a large number of youths to take up industry designed quality skill training, become employable and earn their livelihood.

• Encourage standardisation of the Certification process and put in place the foundation for creating a registry of skills.
• Benefit 10 million youth over the period of four years (2016- 2020).

 Skill India Mission

“Skill India Mission” has gained tremendous momentum through launch of its flagship scheme PMKVY to unlock the vision of making India the ‘Skill Capital’ of the world.

Prelims Link:

1. What is the Skill India Mission?
2. PMKVY 1.0 vs PMKVY 2.0 vs PMKVY 3.0

1. The participants in PMKVY
2. Implementing agencies.

• Key features of the scheme  

  Write a note on need and significance of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana in the backdrop of CORONA Pandemic.

     
  
  
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  Separation of powers between various organs, dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.

  
  Why Supreme Court’s ruling on farm laws sets a terrible constitutional precedent?
  
  

  Context:

  
  The apex court has suspended the implementation of the farm laws, and created a committee to ascertain the various grievances.
  
   What’s the issue now?
  
  The judges’ intervention on the laws has been questioned by the Attorney General on three grounds. He also said that a law can be stayed or struck down only on one of these three grounds. These include:
  
        1  One is that it has been passed without legislative competence.
  
  

  2. Two that it is violative of fundamental rights.
  3. Third that it is violative of other provisions of the Constitution.

  So, instead of doing a hearing on the substance-: the possible federalism challenge, it has simply decided to create a committee to hear farmers’ grievances and wade into political territory.

  Why this might be a dangerous precedent?

  1. It has set a new precedent for putting on hold laws passed by Parliament without substantive hearings on the content of the laws.
  2. It has muddied all the possible lines of judicial procedure, where it is not clear what the locus standi of different counsel are, what are the specific prayers that need to be addressed and how the court’s remedies address them.
  3. It has not really heard the farmers, whose counsel were not fully heard before the passing of orders.
  4. This is a monumental irony since a court whose own procedures seem to be opaque sets itself up as the arbiter of responsive government.  
     

      Conclusion:

     The court is, perhaps unintentionally but damagingly, seeking to break the momentum of a social movement.

     

     
     

     
     
     

     Prelims Link:

     1    Examples of invocation of Article 142 by the Supreme Court.
     2    Similar powers to High Courts.
     3    Original vs Appellate jurisdictions.
     4    Judicial review of Speaker’s decisions.
     5    What is Judicial activism?
     6    What is Judicial overreach?

     Sources: Indian Express. 

     
     

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