What is the aim of the ‘SAMARTH’ Scheme ?
(a) Employment linkage through Textile Industry collaboration
(b) Financial assistance to food exporters for overseas marketing.
(c) Self Defense training to school girls for women empowerment.
(d) Vocational training to unskilled youth in the food processing industry.

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What is the aim of the &lsquo;SAMARTH&rsquo; Scheme ?
(a) Employment linkage through Textile Industry collaboration
(b) Financial assistance to food exporters for overseas marketing.
(c) Self Defense training to school girls for women empowerment.
(d) Vocational training to unskilled youth in the food processing industry.

ONLiNE UPSC · Accepted Answer

Samarth is a demand driven and placement-oriented umbrella skilling programme of the Ministry of Textiles. It aims at employment linkage through Textile Industry collaboration. The objectives of the scheme are:

	To provide demand driven, placement oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and supplement the efforts of the industry in creating jobs in the organized textile and related sectors, covering the entire value chain of textile, excluding Spinning and Weaving.
	To promote skilling and skill upgradation in the traditional sectors of handlooms, handicrafts, sericulture and jute.
	To enable provision of sustainable livelihood either by wage or self employment to all sections of the society across the country.

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What is the aim of the ‘SAMARTH’ Scheme ? (a) Employment linkage through Textile Industry collaboration (b) Financial assistance to food exporters for overseas marketing. (c) Self Defense training to school girls for women empowerment. (d) Vocational training to unskilled youth in the food processing industry.