Champion Services Sector (CSS) Scheme

✅ The Union Cabinet, in 2018, approved the proposal of the Department of Commerce to give focused attention to 12 identified champion services sectors for promoting their development and realising their potential.

✅ The 12 sectors are IT & ITES, tourism and hospitality services, medical value travel, transport and logistics services, accounting and finance services, audio visual services, legal services, communication services, construction and related engineering services, environmental services, financial services and education services.

✅ About the CSS Scheme:

◆ It is an umbrella scheme for the period 2019-20 to 2023-24.

◆ It is a central sector scheme of the Dept. of Commerce.

✅ The aims of the scheme are:

◆ Unleash the full potential of the services sector and achieve their sustained growth.

◆ Diversification across a broad range of services sectors.

◆ Enhance global competitiveness of India’s services sectors and position India as a services hub of the world.

✅ The states objectives of the scheme are:

◆ Addressing sectoral and cross-cutting issues including domestic regulatory reforms.

◆ 'New’ initiatives including new processes, new infrastructure, new mindset, new sectors and new standards to prevent India’s services sector from losing its competitive position in the global market.

◆ Enhance gross value added contributed by the domestic services sectors.

◆ Boosting India’s exports across a broad range of services sectors.

◆ Skill training and employment creation.

✅ The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has initiated the following projects under CSS scheme:

◆ Future Skills PRIME: It is a programme for reskilling/upskilling of IT manpower for employability.

◆ Next Generation Incubation Scheme (NGIS): The NGIS aims to create a vibrant software product ecosystem to complement the robust IT industry.

Source Note-- 【This information was given by the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.】