Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India is inviting Expression of Interest to establish Jan Shikshan Sansthan (NGOs) for Skill Development. Online applications are invited for the setting up of new Jan Shikshan Sansthans in 250 identified districts in the country.
Interested agencies who fulfilling eligibility conditions, may submit their detailed Expression of Interest / Proposal online through JSS Portal (www.jss.gov.in)
Note: No hard copy/email or any other mode of application will be acceptable. After the due date /time no application shall be entertained.
Eligibility Criteria:
The NGOs/Agencies who will fulfill the following criteria shall be eligible for submitting their detailed proposal online through the JSS portal:-
Registration
- Valid Registration under Societies Registration Act 1860 / Trusteeship Act / Section 8 Companies Act 2013.
- Minimum 3 years experience on the date of application.
- Valid Registration under Section 12A & 80G of the Income Tax Act
- Valid Registration under FCRA
- Valid Registration on NGO Darpan Portal of NITI Aayog.
Annual Turnover
- Minimum annual turnover of Rs.10.00 lakh in each financial year for the last three financial years i.e. 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21.
- Certificate regarding annual turnover from a Chartered Accountant on letterhead should be uploaded Experience
- Experience of at least 3 years in conducting vocational training / skill development / running educational institutions including medical / Entrepreneurship / community development / rural development / health / life skills / welfare programmes.
Experience
- Experience of at least 3 years in conducting vocational training / skill development / running educational institutions including medical / Entrepreneurship / community development / rural development / health / life skills / welfare programmes.
Additional Parameters
- Infrastructure and Human Resources in the applied district.
- Awards / Rewards received by the agency
Terms and Conditions
- Applicant agency should not have been blacklisted / de-linked by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. An undertaking has to be submitted on letterhead.
- The selected agency should register the Jan Shikshan Sansthan as a separate entity under Societies Registration Act as per the State / UT Act in the sanctioned District/state within 90 days from the date of sanction of JSS.
- The operational area of the JSS will be the district allotted only i.e. the programs and activities of JSS should be conducted within the district and beneficiaries can be from any part of the country.
- Prohibition on sub-letting: JSS must run the program by itself and any kind of sub-letting or sub-contracting or franchise arrangement for the conduction of training is strictly prohibited under any circumstances.
- JSS may collaborate/associate with the donor agencies / philanthropic organizations for setting up infrastructure / technical support for effective training.
Selection Process
- The entire process of screening, scrutiny/assessment, field visit, evaluation, and ranking of the applicants will be carried out by MSDE
- All the online applications received through the JSS portal shall be scrutinized by a software especially designed and developed for this purpose.
- A team of MSDE officers will validate the marks given by the system and recommend the eligible agencies for field inspection.
- There will be 50 marks for screening of applications.
- Cut Off: The minimum qualifying criteria for recommending field inspection is 30 marks (60%) for all agencies except agencies locally registered and applied for NER districts /UT of J&K /difficult Islands. The agencies locally registered and applied for NER districts /UT of J&K /difficult Islands, the cut-off is 50% i.e. 25 marks.
- In case of non-availability of the agencies as per cut-off, MSDE may relax the cut-off marks with the approval of the competent authority.
- Field Visit / Inspection of recommended agencies to physically verify their base location i.e. headquarters of the NGO and the applied location/district.
- There will be 25 marks for field inspection. The inspection marks will be divided in the ratio of 60:40 in HQ & applied district respectively.
- Based on the marks obtained in scrutiny and field inspection, the top three agencies for each district will be called for technical presentation before Selection Committee.
- There will be 25 marks for technical presentation.
- MSDE will compile marks of screening, field visit report, and selection committee and make a recommendation for the final selection of agencies for each District for the approval of the Hon’ble Minister.
- Agencies / NGOs approved by the competent authority will be sanctioned by the new Jan Shikshan Sansthan in each District.
Submission of Online Applications:
- Interested agencies fulfilling eligibility conditions, can submit their detailed proposal online through JSS Portal (www.jss.gov.in).
- No hard copy/email or any other mode of application will be entertained.
- Agency will submit the single application. The general information of the agency will be uploaded once and for multiple districts, the agency should select the districts from the given list and submit the details of each (applied) district separately.
- Agency should upload documents duly sealed and signed by authorized signatories of the agency.
- All the documents should be legible.
- The illegible documents will not be considered and the application will be summarily rejected.
- No correspondence will be entertained regarding the status of the application.
New Date for Submission: 31 July 2022, 05:00 PM (1700 hours)
