A meeting of the stakeholders on the Samarth Scheme was held in New Delhi.
- The Samarth Scheme deals with the Capacity Building in Textile Sector under the Skill India Mission.
- The meeting was chaired by Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani.
- The meeting was conducted to make the stakeholders familiar with the scheme and its guidelines.
- The concerns of the stakeholders and challenges faced by them during implementation of the previous scheme were discussed in the meeting.
- It was also discussed amongst the stakeholders how the scheme can contribute and benefit the textile industry and boost skill development in the respective sector.
- The scheme of the Ministry of Textiles and was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 20th December 2017.
- Its main objective is to skill the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in the textile sector covering the entire value chain of textiles, excluding spinning and weaving.
- It targets to train around 10 lakh people out of which 9 lakh would be trained in the organized sector whereas 1 lakh in the traditional sector.
- These people would be trained in a duration of 3 years from 2017 to 2020 with an outlay of Rs 1300 crore.
