Right of Youth to Skill Development

(1) Every eligible youth shall have a right to skill development in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (2) The State Government shall make necessary arrangements for providing skill development training to such eligible youth as per the provisions of this Act. (1) No youth shall be denied opportunity to get skilled in a vocation of choice from amongst the skills, as notified by the State Authority, subject to possessing such eligibility as mentioned in the notification. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section or under any provision of this Act, the right to get skilled in a vocation of choice shall be deemed to have been extinguished, if the youth is not declared successful by the Third Party Assessor or fails to satisfactorily complete the relevant training: Provided that a youth may make an application for developing multiple skills, if a District Authority or the State Authority, as the case may be, has exhausted all eligible applications for skill development in such skill(s) at the time of submission of the application. In Section 7 of the Principal Act-(i) For sub-clause (5) of clause (a), the following shall be substituted, namely :-"(5) Secretaries to the State Government, by whatever designation called, in-charge of the Departments of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Energy, Finance, Forest, Public Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Higher Education, Commerce and Industry, Electronics and Information Technology, Labour, Mining, Panchayat and Rural Development, Rural Industries, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development, School Education, Social Welfare, Technical Education, Manpower Planning, Tourism, Urban Administration, and Woman and Child Development, shall be members (ex-officio);" (ii) After sub-clause (5) of clause (a), the following shall be inserted, namely:-"(SA) Chief Executive Officer of the Livelihood College Society shall be a member (ex-officio);" (iii) For sub-clause (1) of clause (b), the following shall be substituted, namely :-"(1) Four persons of eminence with background in industry, trade and commerce, skill development and livelihood programmes, among whom: one shall be a woman, and one shall be from the State;" (iv) Sub-clause (2) and (3) of clause (b) shall stand omitted. (v) For clause (c), the following shall be substituted, namely :-"(c) Two members of the State Legislative Assembly nominated by the Speaker shall be members (ex-officio)." In Section 7 of the Principal Act- (i) For sub-clause (5) of clause (a), the following shall be substituted, namely :- '(5) Secretaries to the State Government, by whatever designation called, in-charge of the Departments of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Energy, Finance, Forest, Public Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Higher Education, Commerce and Industry Electronics and Information Technology, Labour Mining, Panchayat and Rural Development, Rural Industries, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development, School Education, Social Welfare, Technical Education, Manpower Planning, Tourism, Urban Administration, and Woman and Child Development, shall be members (ex-officio);' (ii) After sub-clause (5) of clause (a), the following shall be inserted, namely :- "(5A) Chief Executive Officer of the Livelihood College Society shall be a member (ex-officio)" (iii) For sub-clause (1) of clause (b), the following shall be substituted, namely :- '(1) Four persons of eminence with background in industry trade and commerce, skill development and livelihood programmes, among whom: one shall be a woman, and one shall be from the State;' (iv) Sub-clause (2) and (3) of clause (b) shall stand omitted. (v) For clause (c), the following shall be substituted, namely :- "(c) Two members of the State Legislative Assembly nominated by the Speaker shall be members (ex-officio)."