RUDSETI aims at holistic development of unemployed youth

Ongole: The Rural Development and Self Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI) sponsored by Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank and Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatha Education Trust, offering not only training in vocational courses but also aims at the all-round development of the candidates, announced executive director M Janardhan. He visited the RUDSET Institute here on Tuesday and interacted with the students and shared his experiences as the head of the institutions.

Janardhan said that the first RUDSETI was established in 1982 at Ujire in Karnataka under the guidance of Dr D Veerendra Heggade and expanded to 17 states in the country with 27 centres headed by the managers from Syndicate and Canara Banks. 

In Andhra Pradesh, there are two institutions, one in Ongole and other at Anantapur with training and certification capacity of around 750 candidates per year at each centre. He disclosed that 24,062 candidates were trained last year in the country while 783 of them got certificates in Ongole.

The executive director explained that they follow caterer approach and prepare courses depending on the interest of the candidates as well as the demand for the profession in the future. He said that they offer 62 courses approved by the National Skill Qualification Framework by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

He announced that they handhold the candidates for two years after the completion of their training and guide them through the stages of income generation, self- employment and entrepreneurship. He announced that the Ministry of Rural Development has established one Rural Self Employment Institutes (RSETIs) in each and every district. Janardhan announced that they are offering 15 courses in Ongole RUDSETI. Since inception of Ongole institute and up to 2017-18, 17,351 candidates were trained and 11,604 of them were settled in life, he added. 

He said that dairy farming, women’s tailoring, cell phone repairs and service, light motor vehicle driving, electrical motor rewinding, photography and videography, computerised accounting and beauty parlour management are the courses in demand in Ongole centre and they are ready to introduce new courses if the candidates are available, like they did with the SHE Auto driving course and pickle and papad course for differently abled.

He said that they are ready to link the successful candidates for bank loans and announced that the NPA percentage is just 0.02 per cent from the RUDSETI students across the country. Ongole centre director Gudivada Suryanarayna Murthy, other trainers and staff of the RUDSETI Ongole participated in the programme with the executive director.