Beneficiaries Participation in Skill Development Programme: A Comparative Analysis Across Skill Based Courses

Participation is a form of social behaviour that is influenced by several factors and shows different effects on socio-economic development.The present study was conducted in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh to assess the level of participation of beneficiaries in the Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission (CSSDM).The top five courses having the maximum certified beneficiaries were selected for the study.Proportionate sampling was used to survey 250 respondents which were distributed namely Garment making (86), ICT (80), Electricals (30), Medical & Nursing (29) and Construction (25).Determining the number of courses being registered by participants, it was found that almost 50 per cent had registered only for a single course.Different activities performed during vocational training depicted that 40.8 per cent of beneficiaries had enthusiastic involvement in it.The level of participation was brought down with the support of the typology of participation.The result depicted that 38.8 per cent of the participating beneficiaries had a medium level of participation.The effect of selected variables with participation showed that land holding, subscription of mass media, mass-media exposure, cosmopoliteness and level of satisfaction had positive and significant correlations at 1 per cent level of significance.Also, stepwise regression depicted that the level of satisfaction and land holding had contributed significantly towards the participation of beneficiaries.The Kruskal-Wallis test was utilized to detect significant differences in participation across skill-based courses.It was found that there were significant differences in participation in the course of garment making when compared with electricals, construction, medical & nursing and ICT indicating more intensive involvement of participation than other courses.