With the aim to equip rural youth, especially women, with key digital skills and make them job and future-ready, Union Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the ‘Skills on Wheels’ initiative.

• Under the initiative, 60,000 youth will be empowered over a period of five years with the objective of improving the livelihood of rural households by providing relevant skills training to the youth.
• Pradhan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday launched the initiative with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and IndusInd Bank
• At the launch, Pradhan said that as a customised bus with retrofitted tools, ‘Skills On Wheels’ will take the Skill India Mission to the remotest corners of India.
• The initiative will equip rural youth, particularly women with key Digital Skills and make them job and future-ready, he added.