Seekho aur Kamao Scheme | Learn And Earn Scheme

The Ministry of Minority Affairs has implemented one special skill development scheme which is dedicated to the youths of the country who belong to the minority groups. This project named the Seekho Aur Kamao scheme was launched by the previous UPA Govt. during its regime in the financial year 2013 – 2014. As this scheme offers skill development opportunities to the minority group youths, they may get several vocational trainings under this scheme and look for employment opportunities through it. The Govt. will provide the minority youths specialized trainings based on their qualification or talents and the same may be channeled to proceed for self – employment and earn living. This scheme will also empower the minority communities to join the mainstream and get hold of opportunities for development.

Name	Seekho aur Kamao Scheme (Learn and Earn)
Launched	2013-14
Supervised by	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Target Audience	Minority Groups
Toll Free Number	1800112001
Website	http://seekhoaurkamao-moma.gov.in/

Seekho aur Kamao Scheme Objective

As per records of employment rate of youths in the country, the youths who belonged to minority communities such as Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis, Muslim, etc. are far behind than other youths.

To empower them and to provide them with job opportunities so that they can also join the mainstream market and grab employment opportunities.

This scheme is also pitched to preserve the unique traditional and cultural skills of those minority youths and nurture them for building up their future.

Empowering the minority groups in the country will result in a strong and potential human resource for the country and will add up in nation’s development.

The Arts and Crafts of India will also be preserved through this scheme as it will provide the minority youths vocational training on several fields.

Eligibility Criteria

As this scheme is entirely for those who belong to the minority communities of the country, so the only beneficiaries of this Central Govt. skill development and employment opportunity scheme will be the members of the communities which are noted as Minorities as per the Minorities Commission Act of 1992.

This includes five communities – Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians and Muslims. Hence youths who belong to these noted minority communities may apply for this scheme and will get full support from the govt. for their job based training and employment opportunity.

Minority communities which are also notified by some states or Union territories may also participate in this scheme but their total occupancy will be limited to 5 percent of the total number of beneficiaries.