WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN INDIA

The Vocational education and training are essential mechanism of any strategy to improve the condition of women. Skill is the bridge between job and workforce. Women often have different training needs than men, since they are more likely to work as contributing family workers, subsistence farmers, home based micro entrepreneurs, or low paid seasonal labourers, in addition to handling their domestic work and care responsibilities. Skills development is a key to improving household productivity, employability and income earning opportunities for women and also for enhancing sustainable rural development and livelihoods. Skill development is important because of its contribution to enhance productivity at the individual, industry and also national levels because of the complementaritiesthat exist between physical capital and human capital on the one hand and between technology and human capital on the other. This research paper deals with skill development for empowering women through analyzing the several governments' schemes such as vocational training through PM KausalVikasYojna, National Skills Development Programmes and number of initiatives in the field of skill development and employment concerning women empowerment.