Jan Shikshan Sansthan (jss):
The scheme of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) is a unique scheme of Government of India. The Jan Shikshan -Sansthan are unique in that they do not provide just skill development, but link literacy with vocational skills to provide Life Enrichment Education (LEE) to the people. The aim is to shape their beneficiaries into self-reliant and self-assured
employees and entrepreneurs. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan are unique also because they offer quality vocational skills and technical knowledge at a very lovw cost.They also provide need based and literacy-linked vocational training in most courses without insisting on age limit or prior educational qualifications; reach out to the clientele in their areas; offer a multi-faceted skill-knowledge-awareness enhancement and outlook formation trainings and inputs and empowerment-oriented interventions in respect of social, economic and health status improvement of women and adolescent girls.Today, there 221 Jan Shikshan Sansthan in the
country and they are expected to act as district level resource support agencies especially in vocational training and skill development programmes for the neo literates and other target groups of the continuing education programme. The current aim is to have 50% of their beneficiaries from amongst the neo-literates.
