PMKVY skill certificate / placement stuck? File one RTI

Harish completed PMKVY 3.0 Beauty & Wellness training. Certificate not issued + placement support stopped after 2 months.

He filed RTI to NSDC PIO + state Skill Development Mission. 24 days later NSDC replied: assessment-batch certificate dispatched; TP placement obligation extended. Got certificate + placement at salon in 4 weeks.

- PMKVY 4.0 Operational Guidelines (MSDE 2023). - NSDC Standard Operating Procedures for TP empanelment. - §6(1) + §7(1) RTI Act.

To, PIO, NSDC / State Skill Development Mission / MSDE, [Address]

Subject: §6(1) RTI Act — PMKVY certificate / placement / stipend

   Trainee name   : [Name]
   PMKVY ID       : [Reference]
   Course / SSC   : [Course name + SSC]
   TP name        : [Training partner]
   Batch start/end: DD-MM-YYYY
   Issue          : [Cert / Placement / Stipend / NAPS]

Please provide:
   1. Current status of certificate / placement / stipend.
   2. Reason for delay beyond PMKVY operational SLA.
   3. TP placement obligation status (90-day post-training).
   4. Name + designation of NSDC dealing officer.
   5. NAPS apprentice stipend disbursement status.
   6. Procedure to file grievance.

Citizen of India.
Fee: ₹10 IPO/DD enclosed.
[Name + signature + address + date]

- Assessment failed — re-assessment procedure. - TP closed mid-training — grievance + alternate placement. - Certificate batch pending dispatch. - Post-placement stipend not credited. - NAPS apprenticeship stipend delayed.

• NSDC and MSDE are public authorities — bodies established/controlled by Government, squarely §2(h).
• Your training record, assessment result and the TP's obligations are records under §2(f) — not favours.
• The scheme's own guidelines set service standards; an RTI asks the authority to state, on record, where against those standards the file sits — the question offices answer fastest.

- No specific reported decision is needed for this filing; the statutory route (§6, §7) carries it. For the wider principle that scheme machinery is answerable under RTI, see the case database and the landmark decisions index.

Lifetime — registered in the NSDC database; your RTI can also confirm the registration entry itself.

Ask (by RTI) for the reassignment record: which TP now holds your batch, and who at NSDC approved the migration.

Per state notification plus the central share — ask for the disbursement ledger for your PRN, month by month.

NSDC's CPIO (central, fileable at rtionline.gov.in) plus the State Skill Mission's PIO for state-side records — two applications if both hold pieces.

Ask the RTI way: the batch's dispatch date, the pending-count for your SSC, and the escalation the department opened.

- PMKVY 4.0 Operational Guidelines (MSDE). - NSDC SOPs for Training Partner empanelment. - RTI Act 2005, §§2(f), 2(h), 6(1), 7(1).

PMKVY = job-readiness for millions. RTI breaks TP / NSDC inertia — for ₹10.

File the RTI.

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Last reviewed on: 27 August 2026. Broken frontmatter and truncated description rebuilt; the two unverifiable case citations dropped (no reported decision is needed — the statutory route carries the filing); where-to-file and stipend-ledger FAQs added.