India, July 21 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
As per the guidelines of the PM Vishwakarma Scheme, the initiative is being jointly implemented by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MoMSME), the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), and the Department of Financial Services (DFS) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Government of India. The MoMSME serves as the nodal ministry and is responsible for overall implementation and coordination of the Scheme. The MSDE is tasked with overseeing the skilling component of the Scheme and has appointed the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) as the Project Implementing Agency (PIA) for its execution.
District Project Management Units (DPMUs) have been appointed nationwide covering most of the districts of the country. Their key roles and responsibilities include generating awareness about the scheme among the Vishwakarma beneficiaries, informing them about the training dates, batch timings, location of training centres, benefits of the training, stakeholder coordination and facilitating their participation by guiding them to the training centres. Their role also includes regular monitoring of the training centres to ensure adherence and compliance of the training guidelines.
Total number of DPMUs appointed under the scheme is 497 (as on 16.07.2025) who are covering 618 Districts of the country. DPMUs are physically present in the districts assigned to them and also make physical visits/inspection of the Training Centres to ensure adherence and compliance of the training guidelines by the Training Centres. The State/UT wise details of 497 DPMUs covering 618 Districts is voluminous and as such may please be seen on the website of this Ministry at the link
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