98,697 minority youth across 26 states and 3 Union Territories enrolled in the scheme 49,813 (50.47 percent) of these were women.By placing heavy focus on data collection, monitoring, and evaluation, the project also improved the capacity of India’s education and skills development programs to finance, deliver, and evaluate results.īetween 20, the major results achieved included: The project expanded the involvement of the private sector by selecting PIAs through competitive contracting processes.
The Nai Manzil scheme contributed to building India’s human capital by addressing the limited availability of good quality, market-relevant skills training for underserved minority youth, with specific targets for girls.
The agencies also provided the beneficiaries with coaching, counseling, and networking support to help them obtain sustainable employment. Project Implementing Agencies (PIA) were contracted to provide non-residential, integrated education and skills training for 9 to 12 months, with a minimum of three months devoted to training that complied with India’s National Skills Qualifications Framework. Beneficiaries were trained as tailors, health care providers, electricians, data entry operators, automotive services technicians, and plumbers, among others. The project enabled beneficiaries to re-enrol in school so that they could complete Grade 8 (the minimum level required by most training programs or entry-level jobs) or Grade 10 (needed to enter training programs in higher order skills, leading to better job opportunities). The Nai Manzil scheme sought to address the needs of young people between the ages of 17 and 35 belonging to minority communities who had been unable to finish their formal schooling, and to help them acquire the skills needed to enter the workforce or obtain a better job. In 2015, with support from the World Bank, the government of India launched the Nai Manzil scheme to give a second chance to young people who had been unable to finish their school education and to offer them the opportunity to learn new work skills. They tend to have much lower levels of education and employment than the national average. These groups-Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians-make up almost 18 percent of India’s population, or about 225 million people. Despite India’s economic growth since the turn of the century, many young people from religious minority communities have lagged behind in economic gains and access to opportunities.
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