New Initiatives under Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods

Under the dynamic leadership and initiatives of Honourable Chief Minister Smt. Vasunadhara Raje a unique setup has been created for generating livelihood in Rajasthan in the name of Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods (RMoL). Hon’ble CM is the Chairperson and Shri M.L. Mehta, Ex-Chief Secretary, Rajasthan his Deputy Chairman of the Mission.

RMoL has been set up to promote livelihoods in the state and its one of the objectives is to generate more than a lakh livelihoods every year. It is envisaged that through need based short-term skill trainings, rural as well as urban youth may be able to achieve a reasonable competency level and may either become ‘employable’ or ‘self-employed’. The focus of these training programmes is to cover around 80 % youth who could not complete education up to 10^th Standard level due to various impediments but have aptitude for acquiring skill sets relevant to their livelihoods. Additionally, the entry level eligibility for formal technical education system is 10th or 10+2 rendering this large population of aspiring youth deprived of technical education. These skill based training programmes shall focus on experiential learning where participants will have greater hands-on training / practice.

Nodal Agency:  RMoL has made Entrepreneurship and Management Development Institute (EMI) as its nodal agency, which is promoting self-employment and entrepreneurial sprit in the state through meaningful training activities. RMoL and EMI have identified above 100 technical and vocational skill based training programmes, which have good scope in rural as well as urban areas. The training duration for most of the trainings is 36 working days and 7 hours per day (252 hours) whether the course is residential or non- residential. The number of trainees are limited to 20 per batch. Adequate funding support is provided for conducting each course. A token fee @ Rs.400/- per participant of General category and @ Rs. 200/- per participant of SC, ST category is charged so as to ensure their sincere commitment. However the training programme is free for BPL participants. Tool kits at subsidized cost are provided in certain courses.

PARTICIPATING AGENCIES

Programmes are entrusted to Agriculture Universities, Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), ITIs, ITCs and a few reputed NGOs. ITCs and NGOs that are registered and have at least three years experience of organising vocational trainings, ready physical infrastructure and faculty related to the desired trade have been preferred so far.

For conducting the training programmes uniformly throughout the State “Orientation programme” for the coordinators of training implementing agencies of two days duration each have been organized for Udaipur region , Bikaner region and Jodhpur region have been already organized in association with Udaipur Agriculture University, Bikaner Agriculture University and Directorate of Technical Education, Jodhpur. Training Modules and Course material for various training programmes have been prepared and supplied to conducting agencies.

Financial year 2005-06: In the last Financial year 62 training programmes were conducted by these agencies benefiting 1450 youth.

Financial Year 2006-07: In the current financial year EMI has been entrusted the work of organizing 200 skill based training programmes for training 4,000 youth throughout the State. However, the target may increase in view of response receive from conducting agencies and the aspirants. In the initial phase of current year 120 training programmes have been entrusted to 120 agencies, break up of which is as follows.