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The Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Institute of
People's Education) is an innovative educational Scheme in the field on non-formal and continuing education and training for adults started by the
Government of India in the year 1967.
A JSS has the entire district of its location as its area of
operation and is expected to work as district level resource support
agency in organizing vocational training programmes for neo-literates,
socially and economically deprived persons. JSSs are being set up in
different districts in the country to consolidate the gains of the
literacy campaigns and improve the quality of life of the neo-literates
through vocational training.
The JSSs offer around 255 different types of vocational courses -
from candle and agarbatti making, sewing and embroidery to computer
courses.
Target Groups:
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Socially backward
Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), OBC, Women, Oppressed.
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Economically weaker
Workers and their family members, Employed/Self employed,
Prospective workers, Unemployed youth, Migrants, Slum / pavement
dwellers, Working children.
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Educationally deprived
Non-literates, Neo-literates, Semi-literates, School Dropouts, Low
formal/non-formal education.
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