{"id":14269,"date":"2026-03-10T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=14269"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:09:14","slug":"72000-jk-rural-youth-trained-under-ddu-gky-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/72000-jk-rural-youth-trained-under-ddu-gky-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"72000 J&#038;K rural youth trained under DDU-GKY: Centre\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Mar 10:\u00a0<\/strong>The Government of India on Tuesday said that more than 72,000 rural youth from Jammu &amp; Kashmir have been trained under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), while over 45,000 of them have been placed in jobs since the inception of the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information shared in Lok Sabha, the Ministry of Rural Development said that a total of 72,602 candidates from J&amp;K have been trained and 45,618 placed under DDU-GKY till January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to an unstarred question in the Parliament, Minister of State for Rural Development Kamlesh Paswan said that the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana\u2013National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) is implementing skill development programmes for rural youth through DDU-GKY and Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETI).<\/p>\n<p>The DDU-GKY is a placement-linked skill development programme aimed at empowering rural poor youth aged between 15 and 35 years by equipping them with employable skills and linking them with regular wage employment.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said the programme ensures social inclusion with provisions for participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, women and persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The government further said that under RSETI, a total of 1,22,400 candidates have been trained in Jammu &amp; Kashmir since inception till January 2026, while 89,915 of them have been settled in self-employment or micro-enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>RSETIs function as training institutes aimed at promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship among rural youth through short-term training programmes along with post-training support.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is implemented through a partnership between the Ministry of Rural Development, sponsor banks and State\/UT governments, with a mandate to establish one RSETI in each district<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Mar 10:\u00a0The Government of India on Tuesday said that more than 72,000 rural youth from Jammu &amp; Kashmir have been trained under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), while over 45,000 of them have been placed in jobs since the inception of the scheme. According to the information shared in Lok Sabha, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14271,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions\/14271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}