The major objective of special projects under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is to encourage training to vulnerable and marginalised groups of society in types, locations, formats. institutional settings, or premises of government bodies, corporates and industry bodies that may deviate from the existing course of training type, implementation and mechanism, as specified under the Short Term Training component under PMKVY.

The objective of the Special Projects is to create innovative, critical and practical projects that have the potential to impact various marginalised, vulnerable, socially disadvantaged, hidden and hard-to-reach populations of society through placement-linked and entrepreneurial skill development trainings. These projects call for the participation of each of the stakeholders for time- bound training and capacity building programmes to prepare the marginalised sections of society to be able to contribute in the mainstream economy of the country.