The Nurturing Aspirations through Vocational Training for Young Adolescent…
2026
The Nurturing Aspirations through Vocational Training for Young Adolescent Girls (NAVYA) initiative was launched as a collaborative programme between which two ministries?
Answer: B. Ministry of Women and Child Development with Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — ConceptGovernment initiatives often use inter-ministerial convergence when one ministry serves the target group and another provides the programme’s technical…
- A.
Ministry of Education and Ministry of AYUSH
- B.
Ministry of Women and Child Development with Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- C.
Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- D.
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Rural Development
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Correct answer: B
Concept
Government initiatives often use inter-ministerial convergence when one ministry serves the target group and another provides the programme’s technical delivery system.
To identify the partners, separate the target beneficiaries from the intervention and map each dimension to the relevant Union ministry.
Application
NAVYA targets young adolescent girls, which connects the beneficiary dimension to the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Its intervention is vocational skill training under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, which connects the delivery dimension to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Contrast
The Ministry of Education and Ministry of AYUSH pairing links education policy with traditional systems of medicine, rather than the programme’s beneficiary-and-skilling combination.
The Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare pairing links traditional medicine with public health, not adolescent-girl welfare with vocational skilling.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Rural Development pairing links social inclusion with rural development, not the two functions named by NAVYA’s design.
Cross-check
The Press Information Bureau’s official launch release dated 24 June 2025 states that the Ministry of Women and Child Development, in convergence with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, launched NAVYA.
Result
Therefore, NAVYA was launched in collaboration between the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.