New Delhi, September 06: Government plans to set up 500 Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes in each district of the country under the proposed ‘National Rural Livelihood Mission’.
The Mission, being designed to replace the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna (SGSY), aims at reducing poverty in rural areas through promotion of diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities as the SGSY has failed to yield the desired results.
As per the proposed NRLM, Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) will be the replication of “successful” Rural Development and Self-Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI), a rural development ministry official said.
RUDSETI, which was an innovative initiative taken jointly by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Education Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank way back in 1982 to motivate unemployed youth to take up self-employment as an alternative career, has now emerged as a “successful model”, he added.
Setting up of RSETIs across the country on lines of RUDSETI is expected to be a success in bringing more BPL households in the network of swarojgari (self- employed) groups by providing training to the beneficiaries under the proposed NRLM, official said.
–Agencies