Lok Sabha Question No. 3500 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-10
Subject: Vocational Training Centres
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ashok Kumar Rawat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3500

TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.12.2019

## VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES

## 3500.  SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  implemented  any  scheme  for  the  establishment  of vocational  training  centres  to  provide  alternative  employment  to  the  unemployed persons particularly in the rural and backward areas;
- (b) if so, the details thereof particularly of the backward and rural areas, State-wise;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to set up such training centres particularly in the backward and rural areas; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) & (b): The  Government  has  decided  to  set  up  one  Rural  Self  Employment  Training Institute [RSETI] in each District of the country. RSETIs are Bank led initiative involving active support  of  the  Government  of  India  and  the  State  Governments.   The  Government  of  India provides one time infrastructure support of Rs. 1 crore besides reimbursing the cost of training rural poor candidates. The State Government provides land free of cost or at nominal charges. The Banks are responsible for day to day functioning of the RSETIs.  The core strength of the RSETI lies in its short term training and long term hand-holding to the rural entrepreneurs for setting up micro enterprises.  Each RSETI is expected to train 750 rural poor youth every year for  taking  up  self  employment  in  the  area  they  reside.   RSETIs  also  provide  periodic  skill  up gradation training to the entrepreneurs for making their initiatives more viable and sustainable. Apart from RSETIs, the Government is also undertaking a Placement Linked Skill Development Program  called  DeenDayalUpadhyayaGrameenKaushalyaYojana  (DDU-GKY)  for  rural  poor youth. DDU-GKY is undertaken as PPP Project through Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) registered  with  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development.  PIAs  take  up  skill  training  of  rural  poor youth in the training centres established by them. Cost of building / purchase of land etc. is not permitted under DDU-GKY.

(c) & (d): RSETIs are established in the districts of the States/UTs which include backward and rural areas.  The details of total number of RSETIs established (as on date), State/UT-wise is given in Annexure.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  THE  ANSWER  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 3500 FOR ANSWER ON 10.12.2019

| Sl. No.   | Name of the State/ Union Territory   |   No. of Functional RSETIs |
|-----------|--------------------------------------|----------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                       |                         16 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh                    |                          1 |
| 3         | Assam                                |                         26 |
| 4         | Bihar                                |                         38 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh                         |                         18 |
| 6         | Gujarat                              |                         28 |
| 7         | Haryana                              |                         21 |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh                     |                         10 |
| 9         | Jharkhand                            |                         25 |
| 10        | Karnataka                            |                         33 |
| 11        | Kerala                               |                         14 |
| 12        | Madhya Pradesh                       |                         50 |
| 13        | Maharashtra                          |                         35 |
| 14        | Manipur                              |                          1 |
| 15        | Meghalaya                            |                          5 |
| 16        | Mizoram                              |                          1 |
| 17        | Nagaland                             |                          1 |
| 18        | Odisha                               |                         30 |
| 19        | Punjab                               |                         17 |
| 20        | Rajasthan                            |                         35 |
| 21        | Sikkim                               |                          1 |
| 22        | Tamil Nadu                           |                         30 |
| 23        | Telangana                            |                         11 |
| 24        | Tripura                              |                          5 |
| 25        | Uttar Pradesh                        |                         75 |
| 26        | Uttarakhand                          |                         13 |
| 27        | West Bengal                          |                         19 |
|           | Total States                         |                        559 |
| 1         | UT Andaman &Nicobar Islands          |                          1 |
| 2         | UT Dadra &Nagar Haveli               |                          1 |
| 3         | UT Lakshadweep                       |                          1 |
| 4         | UT Puducherry                        |                          1 |
| 5         | UT Jammu &Kashmir                    |                         21 |
| 6         | UT Ladakh                            |                          1 |
|           | Total UTs                            |                         26 |
| 33        | GRAND TOTAL                          |                        585 |