{"id":2045,"date":"2019-11-25T23:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2019-11-25T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:23:24","slug":"sports-under-skill-india-mission-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/archives\/2045","title":{"rendered":"Sports Under Skill India Mission Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1034\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/archives\/1024\/school-times-india-breaking\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1070,470\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"School Times India Breaking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-300x132.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-1024x450.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1034 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking-1024x450.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW DELHI :<\/strong> The Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship R.K. Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today said that the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) was launched by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister on 15th July, 2015, to provide a strong institutional framework to implement and scale up skill development efforts across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said that under this, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is implementing its flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) (2016-2020). Under PMKVY (2016-2020), training is provided in various sectors including sports. Qualification Packs that have been developed for the sports sector are Fitness Trainer, Life Guard-Pool &amp; Beach, Sports Masseur and Physical Activity Faciliataor.<\/p>\n<p>He informed that as on 11.11.2019, 11,541 candidates have been trained under PMKVY (2016-20) under sports sector. MSDE through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) formed the Sports, Physical Education, Fitness &amp; Leisure Skills Council (SPEFL-SC) on 3rd July, 2015 for focused attention to the development of sports under the Skill India Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the key objective of the SPEFL-SC is to create a robust and vibrant eco-system for quality education and skill development in the sports sector in the country. The mandate for SPEFL-SC, inter alia, is to carry out functional and occupational mapping and develop a catalogue of industry, develop occupations\/job roles in the sector, develop &amp; put in place an assessment &amp; certification mechanism for the trainers, assessors and trainees etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship R.K. Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today said that the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) was launched by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister on 15th July, 2015, to provide a strong institutional framework to implement and scale up skill development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/School-Times-India-Breaking.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7P32y-wZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltimesindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}