Skilling India is an initiative recently taken up in the direction of the changing the skill landscape of India’s gigantic unemployed and under employed population. Skill, being at the centre of employability, occupies prominence in employment land scape of any state or for that matter, the centre stage of the effective workforce participation of any country. Accordingly, assessment of the skill landscape of India in the wake of emerging technological change, global transformation and international mobility of workforce, is the essence of this paper. As any other research would have it, measures suggested for improvement of the situation is the outcome of this research. A review of research on the subject showed that there is no dearth of research in this field but there exists none, that stress the effect of these policies on the skill landscape and gender diversity of the country. Most of these studies show the different dimensions that cover the need of the skill programme within the perspective of “Make in India” frame work. The structural aspect of the Skill Development or Skill India framework with particular reference to the Skill Land Scape and gender diversity of India. The research design is explorative, methodology is secondary sources, collected from empirical-reports, survey-research, books, prominent-sites, media-reports etc. and literature-survey. The findings of the study indicate that despite the laudable and all admirable aspects of the Skill India Movement, the problem of gender inequality, sectoral imbalance in skilling, training and placements, remain unattended.

Keywords : Skill India, Skilling India, Mission Skill, Skill Land Scape.