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Ministry of Skill Development &Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has invited bids from consultants to undertake evaluation of six centrally sponsored schemes vis Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS), Enhancing Skill Development Infrastructure in NE States (ESDI), Skill Development in 47 districts affected by left wing extremist (LWE), up-gradation of existing government ITIs into model ITIs and up-gradation of 1396 government ITI’s through PPP.
Each scheme is implemented by a nodal agency of MSDE who shall be responsible for providing any inputs, documents related to the Scheme implementation.
“The National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has been structured as an outcome oriented policy. It is therefore desirable that there should be regular monitoring and evaluation of the initiatives to ensure that best practices can be scaled and corrective measures can be introduced,” the ministry said in the RFP documents uploaded to invite proposals.According to MSDE, the main idea of having a robust monitoring and evaluation mechanism of the schemes being implemented by MSDE and its attached organizations is to ensure successful implementation of the policy initiatives.