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Skill India is an initiative of Government of India. It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16 July 2015 with an aim to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022. The initiatives include National Skill Development Mission, National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme and the Skill Loan scheme. ==UK partnership== Under the new UK-India Skills pledge, 11 UK companies have committed to support skills development in India. The Government of the United Kingdom and UK businesses will establish new ''"Centres of Excellence"'' in key sectors, starting with a ''centre for Automotive and Advanced Engineering'' in Pune. Virtual partnerships will be initiated at the school level to enable young people of either country to experience the school system of the other country and develop an understanding of the culture, traditions and social and family systems. UK will be the partner country for the ''2016 Technology Summit'' in Delhi. To promote further joint research partnerships, the academic exchange was planned to enable access for Indian scientists to the Neutron Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in University of Oxford. A ''Newton-Bhabha'' fund will be established for joint research, capacity building and translation. The joint investment in UK-India research has grown from less than in 2008 to over in 2015. New investments include multi-million-pound UK-India virtual centres in Clean Energy, Water Security and Agricultural Nitrogen. New joint research and innovation programmes on Childhood and Maternal Health and Nutrition, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Urbanization and Heritage, Sustainable Water Resources for Food, Energy and Ecosystem Services, Atmospheric Pollution and Human Health in an Indian Megacity, Aquaculture, and the joint UK-India observational campaign on the South Asian Monsoon. Innovate UK announced that the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA) will open a third round of collaborative industrial R&D, making up to available to support novel commercial solutions in the areas of clean-tech energy, affordable healthcare and ICT related to clean-tech energy and healthcare. Joint India-UK collaboration in crop sciences will be established which will bring together the best UK universities, University of Cambridge, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, John Innes Centre, Rothamsted Research and University of East Anglia to work through Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Government of UK and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India to address fundamental plant science underpinning yield enhancement, disease and drought resistance and translation of research into sustainable agriculture. A joint Indo-UK Plant Science Centre in India will also be established. UK plans to send 100 academics to India over the next two academic years as part of the Global Initiative for Academics Network (GIAN). 25,000 UK students will come to India through the Generation UK-India programme by 2020, including 1000 UK interns with Tata Consultancy Services in India by 2020. The 3rd phase of the UK India Education and Research Initiative. A commitment to achieve mutual recognition of UK and Indian qualifications was made. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skill India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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