Special Assignments

Recognizing the contribution of RUDSET Institutes for over 25 years in addressing the problem of un-employment in the country, Government of India has desired that a RUDSETI model Institute in each District of the country should be established under the name and style - RSETI, to be sponsored by the concerned Lead Bank in the District. In pursuance of this direction, over 350 RSETIs have come up in different districts across the country. The National Academy of RUDSETI [NAR], an extended arm of RUDSETI having its Head Office in Bangalore is operating as an apex level training Institute for RSETIs.

The Ministry of Rural Development [MORD], Government of India, with a view to ensure uniform standards of training and professional administration in all the RSETIs, felt a need to put in place a mechanism for monitoring and capacity building of all the RSETIs. To achieve this objective, the Ministry has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] with NAR on 29 July 2011.
The highlights of this MOU are as under:

• The National Academy of RUDSETI(NAR), shall mentor and monitor the RSETIs across the country for a period of 3 years. Each RSETI/RUDSETI to train 750 BPL candidates annually and achieve a settlement of 70% of trained candidates establishing micro enterprises within 3 years.
• The National Academy of RUDSETI to establish an exclusive monitoring Cell headed by a Chief Project Co-ordinator. The NAR shall also continuously train the Director and faculty of RSETIs which shall result in systematic building up of capacity of RSETIs for effective training and facilitation of trained candidates.
• NAR shall prepare an annual action plan for capacity building and monitoring of RSETIs in association with MORD clearly defining the role responsibilities of all the stakeholders. The action plan shall be implemented in a time frame.
• NAR shall continuously develop tools for improving the effectiveness of the RSETIs. These may include development of common curriculum, mechanism to monitor the performance of RSETIs, quality audit, training aids, and incentive schemes, on line MIS etc.
• NAR shall also review the training inputs, methodology, mentoring and monitoring mechanism continuously to ensure that the same is in synchronization with the changing market demands.
• The Chief Project Coordinator of Monitoring Cell, NAR with the assistance of state level co-ordinators, shall implement various interventions designed for effective functioning of RSETIs and continuously monitor the progress to achieve the desired objectives.