Karnataka Launches First Skill Development Policy 2025–2032 to Build Global Hub for Skilled Workforce, Targets $1 Trillion Economy by 2032

Digital-First Skilling Approach

The new policy places a strong emphasis on digital technologies, AI-driven tools, and a unified digital portal for training, assessment, and career guidance. It also facilitates global workforce mobility through international certifications, migration support, and specialized training modules.

Vocational Education in Mainstream Learning

A key feature of the policy is the integration of credit-based vocational education into schools, colleges, and universities, ensuring skilling is embedded within the formal education system.

Highlights of Karnataka Skill Development Policy 2025–2032

• Industry collaboration: Strengthened apprenticeship models, ITI adoption, and industry-led training programmes.
• Lifelong learning: Focus on reskilling and upskilling to keep pace with rapid industrial and technological shifts.
• Social inclusion: Tailored interventions for women, marginalized communities, persons with disabilities, the urban poor, and informal sector workers.
• Infrastructure upgrade: Modernization of ITIs, expansion of Government Tool Room & Training Centres (GTTCs), and creation of rural and urban skilling hubs.
• Robust monitoring: 5% of scheme budgets allocated for monitoring and evaluation.
• Unified umbrella scheme: CMKKY 2.0 to integrate all state skilling programmes—Kalike Jothege Kaushalya, Nanna Vrutti Nanna Ayke, ILC, IMC-K, RPL, and special projects—under one life-cycle framework.

Bridging Fragmentation in Skilling

Until now, Karnataka’s skilling efforts were scattered across various departments, leading to fragmentation. The new policy brings these initiatives under a common strategy that connects education, employment, and industry while ensuring equity, inclusivity, and global competitiveness.