About:
- Currently, there are 247 JSSs working across the country imparting vocational skill training programmes and entrepreneurship benefits accessible to the underprivileged such as neo-literates, semi-literates, SCs, STs, women and girls, slum dwellers, migrant workers.
- Formerly under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Jan Shikshan Sansthan has been transferred to the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship in 2018.
Key highlights of the New guidelines released for JSSs in January 2019:
- Alignment of JSS course and curriculum to National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) to standardize training.
- Decentralization of powers for JSSs- giving more accountability and independence to district administration.
- Linking JSS to PFMS (Public Finance Management system) maintaining transparency and accountability of the ecosystem.
- Training of Trainers to develop the capacity through NSTIs (National Skills Training Institutes).
