The ‘Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SCBTS)’ shall be known by the name Samarth, signifying the broad objective of the scheme to skill the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in the textile sector.

It is scheme of Ministry of Textiles, approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in December 2017. Its broad objective is to skill the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in textile sector covering entire value chain of textiles, excluding spinning and weaving.

The scheme is intended to provide demand driven, placement oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and supplement efforts of industry in creating jobs in textiles sectors. It targets to train 10 lakh persons (9 lakh in organised and 1 lakh in traditional sector) over period of 3 years (2017-20) with an budgetary outlay of Rs. 1300 crore.

Biometric process are used under this scheme for selection of candidates for training purpose. Moreover, government is also creating attendance system integrated with centralized Management Information System (MIS) to ensure real time attendance.

An Overview

The textile and apparel industry is one of the earliest industries developed in India. Its entire value chain from fiber to apparel manufacturing has a strong presence within the country. It is the biggest employer after agriculture. In order to meet the skill gap in the industry and also to supplement its efforts initiated through the Special Package for Garments and Made-ups, the Government has approved the new scheme titled “Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SCBTS)” for the entire value chain of textile except Spinning and Weaving in the organized sector, for a period of three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20 with an outlay of Rs. 1300 crore.

Objectives

1. To provide demand driven, placement oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and supplement the efforts of the industry in creating jobs in the organized textile and related sectors, covering the entire value chain of textile, excluding Spinning and Weaving.
2. To promote skilling and skill upgradation in the traditional sectors of handlooms, handicrafts, sericulture and jute.
3. To enable provision of sustainable livelihood either by wage or self employment to all sections of the society across the country.

The Scheme would target to train 10.00 lakh persons (9 lakhs in organised & 1 lakh in traditional sector)

The skilling programmes would be implemented through following Implementing Agencies:

• Textile Industry.
• Institutions/Organization of the Ministry of Textiles/State Governments having training infrastructure and placement tie-ups with textile industry.
• Reputed training institutions/ NGOs/ Societies/ Trusts/ Organizations/ Companies /Start Ups / Entrepreneurs active in textile sector having placement tie-ups with textile industry.

The scheme will broadly adopt the following strategy:

1. Aadhaar enabled biometric attendance system with minimum 80% attendance for assessment
2. Training by certified trainers having Training of Trainers (ToT) certification by RSA/SSCs
3. CCTV recording for entire training programme and assessment process.
4. Third party assessment and certification by assessment agencies empaneled by RSA
5. Placement linked skilling programme with mandatory wage employment in organized sector (70%) and in traditional sector (50%) and post placement tracking for one year
6. Random physical verification of active training centres
7. NSQF aligned courses
8. Robust MIS and real-time Scheme information publicized in Ministry of Textiles website.
9. Call centre (Helpline) set-up to collect feedback
10. Mobile app for different stakeholders to ease out monitoring and implementation mechanism.
11. Preference given to marginalized social groups and 115 aspirational districts
12. Public Grievance redressal with designated Grievance Redressal Officer from Ministry of Textiles
13. Internal complaints committee to be constituted under the Sexual Harassment of women at workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, redressal) Act ,2013
14. Funding as per common norms of MSDE
15. Common branding as per guidelines of MSDE
16. For self-empolyment, concessional credit under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana will be provided for beneficiaries.

Monitoring and Management Information System (MIS)

A centralized web-based Management Information System (MIS) has been put in place for monitoring and implementation of the scheme. MIS shall act as an integrated platform for registration and empanelment of Implementing Agencies. All aspects of programme management and implementation such as submission of proposals, release of funds, enrolment of candidates, functioning of training, physical verification, assessment, placement, post-placement tracking etc. will be managed through MIS. The release of funds will be linked to physical progress updated on the MIS.

A Mobile Application for different stakeholders TC Coordinator, Inspection Agency, beneficiaries and grievance redressal with Geo-tag, timestamp and evaluation.is linked to the MIS modules.

Call centre setup with helpline/ Toll free number linked to MIS and Public Dashboard.

Salient Features of Samarth Scheme

1. Training of Trainers (ToT) – That will provide enhanced facilitation skills to the master trainers.
2. Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) – That will ensure the credibility of the trainers and the beneficiaries.
3. CCTV recording of training programmes – To avoid major conflicts in the functioning of the scheme, training institutes will be fixed with CCTVs.
4. Dedicated call centre with helpline number –
5. Mobile app-based Management Information System (MIS)
6. On-line monitoring of training processes

The central government has approved the scheme with a total outlay of Rs.1300 crores.

Implementing Agencies

Implementing agencies for the scheme include:

1. Textile industry.
2. Institutions or organisation of Ministry of Textiles or State Governments which are having placement tie-ups and training infrastructure with the ministry.
3. Reputed training institutions, NGOs, societies, organisations, companies, trusts, start-ups and entrepreneurs which are active in the textile field.