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India has the world’s largest youth population. It said that developing countries with large youth populations could see their economies soar, provided they invest heavily in young people’s education. The youth of the country are the representative of the prosperity. Youth force is energetic and vibrant in nature because various type of skills and orientations are acquired only in this age. For the development of society, only youth force is a huge pool of energy which needs to be tapped and harnessed intelligently. With the purpose of enhancing and rationalizing their energy, Policy makers all over the world frame different efficient and effective policies in respect of youth. The changing demographic profile of the world has thrown a window of opportunity favouring India. The contemporary challenge is to increase the youth potential and to approximately use to make it the driving force of the economy. The government has listed skill development as one of its priorities. For this purpose, Government of India launched NAPS scheme on 19th August, 2016. As per NAPS, Haryana government is also going to engage near about 15000 apprentices in its different departments, boards, councils and business organisations by December 1,2017 so that an effective step could be taken towards skilling the people in this state. To monitor the engagement of apprentices, Skill Development and Industrial Training both authorities will be implementing and both are nodal ministry. The significant objectives of this study is to analyse the present status of National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme under Skill India initiatives taken by Govt. of India as well as Govt. of Haryana and to analyse the challenges associated with the NAPS. This study is beneficial to the planners’ policy makers and researchers in enhancing their understanding of the ambitions and difficulties of the youth in India. This paper is an exploratory study in nature and used secondary data. This paper concludes that various organisations in India such as Tata Motors, Pluralsight, Udacity, Google, NASSCOM and IFIM etc. have implemented NAPS schemes. These organisations also elucidate that taking up this skilling initiative, not just for the benefit of the companies but the whole country. In Haryana, 90 per cent Universities has been registered in Apprenticeship portal for enhance this scheme.

NAPS, NASSCOM and IFIM, Employment Growth, Universities of Haryana etc.

"Role of National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme; with special reference to Employment Sector in Haryana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.936-944, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C28.pdf

"Role of National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme; with special reference to Employment Sector in Haryana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp936-944, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C28.pdf