Lok Sabha Question No. 1635 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-30
Subject: Vocational Training Centres
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SADASHIV KISAN LOKHANDE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MNNISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 1635 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2015

## VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES

## 1635: SHRI SADASHIV LOKHANDE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- whether the Government has launched any scheme to set up vocational training centres for providing alternative employment to the unemployed persons;
- whether the Government proposes to set up any such training centres in the country particularly in backward areas of Maharashtra; and
- if the details thereof including Maharashtra, State/UT-wise; SO,
- (d) if the details thereof; State/UTwise? SO,

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI BIRENDER SINGH)

(a): As per available information, 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 with the 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 Gcvernment provides land free of cost o at nominal charges. The Banks are responsible for to functioning of the RSETL The core strength of the RSETI lies in its short term training ad term handholding to the rural entrepreneurs for setting up micro enterprises. RSETIs are expected to train 750 rural poor youth each year to take up self employment in the area 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 Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) for rural poor youth: DDU-GKY is undertaken as Private   and Public   organizations registered with Ministry of Rural Development: Cost of building purchase of land etcis not permitted under DDU-GKY. day day long they

- (6) to (d): RSETIs are established in the districts of all the States/UTs, irrespective of their backwardness, including Maharashtra. As per available information, details on total number: of

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN THE ANSWER TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHAUNSTARRED

| SN.      | STATEIUNION TERRITORY       | No. OF RSETIs Established   |
|----------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|          | Andhra Pradesh              | 15                          |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh           |                             |
| 3        | Assam                       | 22                          |
|          | Bihar                       | 39                          |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh                | 18                          |
|          | Goa                         |                             |
|          | Gujarat                     | 28                          |
| 8        | Haryana                     | 21                          |
|          | Himachal Pradesh            | 10                          |
| 10       | Jammu and Kashmir           | 21                          |
| 1        | Jharkhand                   | 25                          |
| 12       | Karnataka                   | 33                          |
| 13       | Kerala                      | 14                          |
| 14       | Madhya Pradesh              | 51                          |
| 15       | Maharashtra                 | 36                          |
| 16       | Manipur                     |                             |
| 17       | Meghalaya                   |                             |
| 18       | Mizoram                     |                             |
| 19       | Nagaland                    |                             |
| 20       | Odisha                      | 30                          |
| 21       | Punjab                      | 19                          |
| 22       | Rajasthan                   | 33                          |
| 23       | Sikkim                      |                             |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu                  | 31                          |
| 25       | Telangana                   | 9                           |
| 26       | Tripura                     | 5                           |
| 27       | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |                             |
| 28       | Dadra & _ Nagar Haveli      |                             |
| 29       | Lakshadweep                 |                             |
| 30       | Puducherry                  |                             |
| 31       | Uttar Pradesh               | 75                          |
| 32       | Uttarakhand                 | 13                          |
| 33 Total | West Bengal                 | 19 580                      |