Mission Youth

Mission Youth Schemes

Jammu & Kashmir is bestowed with a predominantly young population with about 69 % of the population being below the age of 35 years. In order to provide a platform for holistic implementation of all youth engagement and outreach initiatives, and to bring the interests and empowerment of youth to the centre of policy making, government of Jammu & Kashmir UT has rolled out a pioneering initiative – Mission Youth.

Mumkin – Livelihood Generation Scheme

Under the Mumkin scheme, unemployed youth are facilitated to procure small commercial vehicles, on subsidized basis, to establish a sustainable livelihood line in the transport sector.

To make the scheme implementation, completely transparent and fast, a module has been developed on JK-e Services portal for operating the scheme digitally.

As a special incentive under this scheme, Mission Youth is contributing 0.80 lakh or 10% of On-Road Price of Vehicle (whichever is Minimum) per beneficiary and an equivalent amount is also contributed by the vehicle manufacturers Mission Youth has tied up with reputed vehicle manufacturers as scheme partners for providing the best in class options of vehicles to the youth. Pertinently, discretion to choose type of vehicle is left to the youth under scheme guidelines.

Spurring Entrepreneurship Initiative

This scheme is centered on the theme Youth Enterprise with Innovation (YouWiN)/ Champion for Innovation program for encouraging young entrepreneurs’ especially young women towards innovations in various enterprises.

The broad aim of the Scheme is to provide financial assistance to youth of Union Territory of J&K for establishing their business units. It has the stated objective of encouraging innovation and job creation through creation of new businesses and expansion of existing businesses.

This scheme seeks to foster high growth entrepreneurship through business plan competitions. The core principle is to let youth decide on the nature and manner of their business rather than giving an enumerative list of businesses and ask them to choose from a confined sphere of prescribed activities

Tejaswani – The Radiant

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Hon’ble LG announced a special scheme TEJASWINI to promote entrepreneurship among young women. Scheme envisages giving financial assistance upto Rs 5 lakhs to young women for setting up gainful self-employment ventures, suited to their skills, training, aptitude and local conditions.

The financial assistance is given to women between the age of 18 to 35 years having a qualification of 10th standard or above.

SAHYTA Program

Mission Youth has also rolled out a special financial assistance program for youth in distress. A financial assitance of 2 lakhs can be provided under the scheme to youth in distress for setting up gainful self-employment units

For purposes of this programmed, the term youth in distress would mean any person between the age of 18 to 40 years who has lost any next of kin/family member in insurgency related action, cross border shelling or mine blast incident in Jammu and Kashmir and shall include any such person who or his/her family member has suffered permanent incapacitation in such incidents.

Young Innovators Program

Innovation may be defined as exploiting new ideas leading to the creation of a new product, process or service. It is not just the invention of a new idea that is important. It is actually “bringing it to market”, putting into practice and exploiting it in a manner that leads to new products, services or systems that add value or improve quality. It possibly involves technological transformation and management restructuring. Innovation also means exploiting modern technology and employing out-of-the-box thinking to generate new value and to bring about significant changes in society. Mission Youth under this program aims to enhance young people’s learning and development through a range of non-formal learning activities with focus on pioneers experimentation and innovation in education, entrepreneurship, art, research and cross-sectoral partnerships.The major activities to be taken under this program are detailed as under:

To support the innovative entrepreneurship
Youth innovative entrepreneurship ideas contest
Promotion of young social/ educational innovators
Innovative initiatives in conservation/ management of resources

Under this initiative, Mission Youth intends to empower young innovators to innovate new products, services or models in any area of their interest like art, craft, literature, science. The idea is to facilitate promising innovators to exhibit their talent and excel in their areas of interest by providing them with institutional support and financial assistance.

Sector Specific Scheme for Dental Professionals

The scheme aims to address unemployment in dental sector by providing customized financial support to professionals for setting up dental clinics. An amount of 8 lakh shall be provided as financial assistance under this scheme for setting up a dental clinic.

The financial assistance under this scheme shall comprise of two components. Mission Youth shall provide a grant in aid/capital amount of 2 lakhs for each dental clinic to be set up under this scheme and it will be given as a special grant to unemployed dental professionals for setting up their own clinics. Rest amount of 6 lakhs shall be financed by bank as Start Up loan which shall repayable.

In the pilot phase 200 clinics under the scheme are to be set up with a targeted employment to 400 doctors and 400 dental technicians.

Rise Together

Mission Youth, J&K has the rolled out specially designed community oriented livelihood generation scheme for youth of J&K under the name of ‘Rise Together. The programme envisions promoting community based entrepreneurship optimally to generate jobs, income and promote spirit of social service among new-age young entrepreneurs of Jammu & Kashmir.

Under the scheme, the eligible Youth Groups are to be provided with a financial assistance to the extent of ₹ 20.00 lakh comprising of upfront subsidy component provided by Mission Youth (Minimum of ₹2.5 lakh or 10% of project cost) and Loan provided by the Bank (70% of project cost to the extent of ₹ 17.50 lakh).

The balance cost of project, not less than the 20% of project cost, shall be self-financed/ self-arranged by the beneficiary youth-group as Margin Money.

URL:https://missionyouth.jk.gov.in/Schemes