Textile Mills, Mill Associations & Chambers are invited to certify ‘Employees’ from Textile Mills under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) program of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY). This unique initiative for ‘Employers’, hereby called, Best in Class Employer (BICE) allows the certification of ‘Employees’ working in textile mills using the own resources of Textile Mills/Mill Association/Chambers, hereby called, RPL Facilitators. These resources are, namely, evaluation criteria, and ‘assessors’ which shall be their own employees.

Section A: Necessary eligibility criteria

Associations:

• Should have legal identity and should have minimum of 10 member mills

Textile Mill (‘Employer’):

• Average turnover for the last 3 financial years:  10 Crore
• Minimum years of membership with association: 2 years (applicable only if coming through association)
• Number of years of existence: 3 years
• Minimum number of employees: 100 employees

Candidate (‘Employee’):

• Should be working for minimum 1 year on the job role

Section B: Program Sailent Points:

• Allows a direct assessment of an ‘employee’ of textile mill using just the internal resources of the Association (or mill) without any direct cost to association
• Mills or association can have their own evaluation  criteria and use  their own employee as ‘assessor’
• Any job roles out of 87 NSQF aligned course can be considered for certification

Section C: Advantages

Case 1: Textile Mill is RPL Facilitator

1. Textile Mill receives 300 per employee getting certified
2. ‘Employee’ getting certified gets,
   1. 500 by DBT in his/her bank account
   2. GoI skill certificate with logo of Textile Mill
   3. 2 lac personal accidental insurance cover valid for three years

Case 2: Association/Chamber is RPL Facilitator

1. Association/Chamber receives 300 per employee getting certified
2. ‘Employee’ getting certified gets,
   1. 500 by DBT in his/her bank account
   2. GoI skill certificate with logo of Association/Chamber
   3. 2 lac personal accidental insurance cover valid for three years

Section D: Program Implementation

Complete implementation of the program is through the online portal and responsibility  to onboard RPL Facilitators and Employee ‘Assessors’ lies with TSC.

Interested applicants may contact TSC (operations@texskill.in) with following details to take part in the program:

1. Total number of eligible ‘employees’ for respective job roles
2. Identified assessors for conducting assessment

Subsequently, TSC shall undertake the following:

1. Orient the evaluation criteria and eligible employee ‘assessors’ as per the requirement of the program
2. Create the login credentials for the RPL facilitators through which they will register & enrol employees on the online portal
3. Create login credential for  the ‘assessors’ nominated by RPL facilitators  and to enable them to upload the results of the ‘employees’ assessed.
4. Approve the result uploaded by ‘assessors’ on online portal thereby enabling the RPL Facilitator to download the Certificates using their login credentials. Downloaded certificates can then be  printed and distributed among ‘employees’.

To understand more on PMKVY & its associated guidelines, please visit the portal www.pmkvyofficial.org