Impact of PMKVY

The book entitled, ¿Impact of Beauty Culture Trainings on beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojanä in Hisar district of Haryana state purposively. Most of the respondents were from age group of 20 ¿ 30 years, belong to scheduled caste, having medium family educational status, residing in rural area and had small sized nuclear type of families. Majority of the respondents were having monthly income between Rs.20, 001 ¿ Rs. 30,000 and laborer as their family occupation whereas, majority of the respondents were students and had medium level of material possession. Further, majority of respondents were having medium level of change proneness, risk orientation and high entrepreneurial motivation. Most of the respondents were having medium mass media exposure, localite and cosmopolite sources of information utilization. Overall impact of training in term of gain in knowledge, change in attitude and symbolic adoption was found of medium level. Major constraints were economic and personal constraints as perceived by the beneficiaries towards beauty culture training.