RSETIs to create job opportunities: Director
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, April 5
The Rural Self-Employment Training Institute (RSETI) centres (SBI-run) are creating employment avenues for thousands of youngsters and elderly every year who are financially deprived (BPL) by providing free training to make them self-sufficient, said, KN Janardhana, National director of RSETI. He was speaking during an event at RSETI centre at Red Cross Bhawan in Bathinda where he paid a visit to take stock of workings at the centre on Thursday.
He further said efforts are afoot to ensure that more people are taken in the ambit of RSETI to create employment opportunities in the state.
Talking to The Tribune, Jasbir Singh, director of the RSETI centre, Bathinda, said, “More than 86 percent of total 463 rural youth (BPL) trained under the Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI) scheme of SBI, have either started their own ventures or acquired jobs in the year 2017-18 in the district.”
Singh said, “The construction work to introduce new campus which would be spread across one acre area at village Jassi Pau Wali on Mansa Road is likely to start in two months. The estimated project cost to establish the RSETI centre is around Rs 2 crore.”
The members of the RSETI centre that is running since 2009, conduct awareness seminars in the rural areas to sensitize people regarding the free one month training in different vocations and how they can avail the benefit at the centre. Approximately 3,000 people from rural areas have been trained in 18 courses at the centre in past eight years.
Courses in stitching, beauty parlour management, embroidery, masonary work, plumbing and mobile repair work among others are offered at the centre. Apart from that people falling in BPL category are also trained in dairy farming, bee-keeping and trading. The infrastructure to provide training is arranged on rental basis.
