To reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions of the poor.

Empowering the SC communities and creating an enabling environment for strengthening the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi- cultural, multi-lingual and multi-religious character of our nation. To improve the socio-economic conditions of the minority communities through affirmative action and inclusive development so that every citizen has equal opportunity to participate actively in building a vibrant nation.

PMKVY is the flagship outcome-based skill training scheme of the new Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). Under the scheme, monetary reward would be provided to trainees who are successfully trained, assessed and certified in skill courses.

Recognize prior learning of PMKVY to recognize the trainees who already be in job or doing jobs in same fields.