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Cabinet approves National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme

New Delhi, Jul 5 (UNI) With a target to train 50 lakh apprentices by 2019-20, the Union Cabinet today approved a National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme with an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore.
Briefing mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting here, Union Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said the scheme would be implemented by Director General of Training (DGT) under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). It provides for incentivising employers to engage apprentices.
Twenty five per cent of the total stipend payable to an apprentice would be shared with employers directly by the government. It is for the first time that a scheme has been designed to offer financial incentives to employers to engage apprentices.
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