Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Prakasam Y-POWER Score: 45 / 100 — ranked 7 of 26 in Andhra Pradesh.
A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute (RSETI) is a residential training centre that teaches short-term enterprise skills to unemployed rural youth, with the explicit goal of making them self-employed. The establishment of a new RSETI is based on a feasibility assessment, and a single RSETI may serve more than one district — particularly where districts are newly carved out or have a smaller population. Each RSETI is sponsored by a lead bank (assigned by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)); common lead banks include State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Bank of Baroda, and Canara Bank. RSETIs are a joint initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the…
If you live in a rural area and want to start a small business but have no formal training or capital, RSETI provides free residential training and then helps you get a bank loan to start. The training covers everything from tailoring and food processing to mobile phone repair and dairy management.
- Conduct Entrepreneurship Awareness Programmes (EAPs) in villages to identify and mobilise trainees; each sponsor-bank official is expected to conduct around 5 EAPs per month - Use aptitude assessment, personal interview, and counselling to match candidates to the right trade, improving settlement outcomes - Identify candidates: under RSETI 2.0, courses redesigned to accommodate illiterate/semi-literate Self-Help Group (SHG) members; default eligibility 18-45; upper age limit extended to 50 only for National Skills Qualifications Committee (NSQC)-approved traditional-skill programmes routed through National Academy of RUDSETI (NAR). Priority to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, Scheduled…
Portal: kaushal.rural.gov.in -- the Ministry of Rural Development's unified IT platform for Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and RSETI. Institute-wise staffing and infrastructure data is available at kaushal.rural.gov.in//rpt-rseti-profile-view Also: Ask at the lead bank branch in the district headquarters or at the District Magistrate's office -- RSETI performance is reviewed in district-level meetings
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