News & Announcement

Key Achievements of the Skill Development Department

Date: 14-Jul-2025
1. Trained over 13,000 youth across flagship skilling programmes.
2. ⁠Enabled more than 9,400 to become self-employed and 3,700 to secure formal jobs.
3. ⁠Established Niyukti Kendra (2022) as a one-stop centre for job placement, counselling, and apprenticeship facilitation.
4. ⁠2,983 candidates registered and 1,134 placed through Niyukti Kendra; partnered with 138 establishments.
5. ⁠Niyukti Kendra was honoured with the Silver Award for National SKOCH Good Governance and the SKOCH Order of Merit Award for the year 2022
6. ⁠Organised 14 job fairs and 12 major career counselling events across the state.
7. ⁠Launched Government ITI, Kewzing with 6 trades (3 engineering, 3 non-engineering); operational since August 2022.
8. ⁠Under DDU-GKY, benefitted 3,842 candidates with 60%+ placement rate.
9. ⁠Achieved international placement of 13 women nurses to Germany under the Sikkim INSPIRES Program.
10. ⁠Facilitated 800+ apprenticeships under NAPS and NATS.
11. ⁠Delivered training under national schemes like PMKVY, PM Vishwakarma Yojana, and Jal Jeevan Mission.
12. ⁠Upcoming launch of a digital employment portal for real-time tracking and enhanced job access.
-Issued by
Yougan Tamang
Press Secretary to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Sikkim