Training & Development initiatives for Entrepreneurship Promotion by TGB-RSETI: An Analysis from State Level Bankers Committee Database

Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) are structural framework for skill development & entrepreneurship development training laid down by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India in year 2009. The concept of RSETI bagged from the RUDSETIs (Rural Development & Self Employment Training Institutes), the brain child of Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade. RSETIs have 65 approved courses as per National skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) under which they offer different types of Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP). All the programmes are short term residential training with 2 (two) years hand holding support. State Level Bankers Committee data revealed that through the RSETI Training, huge number of unemployed youths started their own enterprise with or without bank finance and also getting the scopes of Self-employment. This particular study took a humble effort the publicize the role of TGB-RSETI in Tripura in regard to unemployment reduction through entrepreneurship development. Total study is based on secondary data (2009-10 to 2022-23) retrieved from SBLC, Tripura website data.