Parliament Question: Employment Generation and Skill Development in Rural Assam

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1557 ANSWERED ON 29/07/2025 EMPLOYMENT GENERATION AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL ASSAM 1557. Md. RakibulHussain: Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government have record of educated unemployed people of Assam migrated to out of the Assam State for employment, if so, the details thereof; (b) the initiatives taken/implemented to create sustainable employment for youth in rural Assam; (c) the manner in which the Government is promoting skill development in sectors like agriculture, handloom and tourism to meet local needs; and (d) the details and number of youths have benefited from these programs in the last five years; State-wise? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN) (a) & (b): Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) is implementing a number of welfare schemes/programmes such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY), DeendayalAntyodayaYojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), DeenDayalUpadhyayaGrameenKaushalyaYojana (DDU-GKY) and Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) for overall development of rural areas of the country. These schemes/programmes aim to alleviate poverty and to bring about overall improvement in the quality of life of the people in rural areas of the country including Assam by strengthening livelihood Page 1 of 5opportunities, providing minimum guaranteed employment, promoting self-employment, skilling of youths in various useful trades and entrepreneurship qualities and infrastructure development. However, record of educated unemployed people of Assam migrated to out of the Assam State for employment is not maintained by this Ministry. (c) & (d): DDU-GKY and RSETI are two schemes of MoRD in the field of skill development for rural poor youth, including sectors like agriculture, handloom and tourism etc., for their gainful employment. The details of number of youths benefited under DDU- GKY & RSETI during the last five years are given in Annexure-I and Annexure-II respectively. ***** Page 2 of 5Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) to (d) of the LokSabhaUnstarred Question No.1557 to be answered on 29.07.2025 State/UT wise details of candidates benefited under DDU-GKY during the last five years: - FY 2020-21 FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25 S.No State Traine Place Traine Place Traine Traine Traine Place . Placed Placed d d d d d d d d Andhra 1 4156 2177 1606 2135 18616 17070 19829 18045 10328 9033 Pradesh Arunachal 2 28 33 233 71 608 295 678 315 684 265 Pradesh 3 Assam 1966 3296 3553 916 12532 6817 10615 8571 5231 4127 4 Bihar 2687 2745 7099 2491 11516 9005 6733 7226 1709 1885 Chhattisgar 5 1109 3683 6499 2883 9742 8484 3045 3958 1170 1759 h 6 Gujarat 240 875 830 599 2912 1450 3960 2729 3544 2584 7 Haryana 26 1213 1772 680 5554 2685 8478 4882 4492 3700 Himachal 8 0 117 334 10 3967 2175 4324 3187 3084 2273 Pradesh Jammu & 9 3454 1945 2300 1102 5459 2754 1177 1245 1767 636 Kashmir 10 Jharkhand 1050 1879 4035 1354 10228 7343 11340 8157 6607 4911 11 Karnataka 769 1649 1442 673 3757 2813 3795 2656 1797 1914 12 Kerala 3053 2931 3219 1097 8623 5224 5212 4078 3052 2572 Madhya 13 903 969 6825 3977 15653 11287 12107 10538 5097 4756 Pradesh Maharashtr 14 874 3319 348 1612 7830 4020 6381 4614 7761 4347 a 15 Manipur 338 387 811 139 1921 1266 782 854 263 356 16 Meghalaya 83 158 456 241 2165 1353 1630 1352 1642 761 17 Mizoram 37 88 105 94 344 349 725 499 723 474 18 Nagaland 221 278 1009 614 2371 1409 1714 1592 804 570 19 Odisha 7978 7729 10474 4828 16778 13248 3997 5330 947 1095 20 Punjab 2922 1931 6976 4188 8121 7020 11803 8805 1979 3560 21 Rajasthan 981 1759 3096 3130 6092 6209 7233 4218 5376 4532 22 Sikkim 0 43 90 0 859 384 1123 720 255 393 23 Tamil Nadu 213 1286 8228 2941 15225 10648 13411 10206 5274 4803 24 Telangana 2752 1436 3177 2494 7094 4564 92 230 2560 1271 25 Tripura 21 609 1049 193 2244 1189 2126 1336 913 694 Uttar 26 1540 4068 16898 3765 36567 21921 45215 33458 18080 16245 Pradesh Uttarakhan 27 367 416 3645 917 8248 4409 6026 5306 1894 2821 d Page 3 of 5West 28 521 2544 732 2424 9596 4774 4979 5979 3172 1969 Bengal 29 Puducherry 165 44 844 343 956 919 436 444 30 A. N Islands 0 0 133 38 547 225 242 196 16054 16123 Total 38289 49563 97006 45612 235599 200033 100883 84946 6 0 Page 4 of 5Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) to (d) of the LokSabhaUnstarred Question No.1557 to be answered on 29.07.2025 State/UT wise details of candidates benefited under RSETI during the last five years: - Name of the FY 2020-21 FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25 S.No. State Trained S ettled Trained S ettled Trained S ettled Trained S ettled Trained S ettled Andaman and 1 Nicobar 318 135 412 381 421 421 500 451 611 497 Islands 2 Andhra Pradesh 5002 3836 7817 6522 10935 8792 11432 8536 16174 12038 Arunachal 3 18 57 225 0 384 438 499 287 1042 779 Pradesh 4 Assam 7208 5145 10017 8335 14328 11087 18132 12155 26097 19080 5 Bihar 14868 10817 21268 14330 28292 22769 30434 24495 41900 32128 6 Chhattisgarh 7003 4927 10030 7257 12744 11238 15040 10848 19079 14328 7 D & N Haveli 560 437 561 447 761 545 752 528 769 547 8 Goa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Gujarat 11233 7859 15993 12863 20564 16395 23117 15363 30705 22256 10 Haryana 11301 6744 11045 8176 14086 8989 15153 10760 20647 15061 Himachal 11 3227 2019 4750 3208 6134 4013 6876 5187 10450 7614 Pradesh Jammu & 12 4552 3955 5277 4148 7909 6453 8589 6397 19785 14325 Kashmir 13 Jharkhand 11467 7982 13725 10828 18979 13844 20760 15370 26681 19849 14 Karnataka 16333 12649 18332 17059 24937 19407 25613 20284 31238 23696 15 Kerala 5090 4752 5980 5801 9970 7990 10690 8389 14614 11355 16 Lakshadweep 162 98 139 34 465 285 467 346 589 419 Madhya 17 19180 15530 22956 18490 32068 24620 35859 27754 50160 36467 Pradesh 18 Maharashtra 16559 13033 19606 15251 27322 21474 30397 22961 41123 30129 19 Manipur 287 277 364 301 920 834 1109 903 2664 2057 20 Meghalaya 959 687 1649 868 2024 1480 2508 1580 3840 2779 21 Mizoram 613 457 651 636 907 798 1055 1053 2324 1366 22 Nagaland 199 118 338 272 396 395 603 332 669 484 23 Odisha 15321 11574 16049 13978 20766 17486 22056 19544 30046 24998 24 Pondicherry 583 420 568 485 821 780 911 712 1251 880 25 Punjab 7501 5489 9241 6972 10833 8243 12332 9398 17779 13274 26 Rajasthan 19904 12682 23160 19032 30404 25274 33293 26740 43116 32669 27 Sikkim 202 134 203 146 411 299 439 335 1020 717 28 Tamil Nadu 15233 12517 17187 14796 26310 21110 29073 23835 36951 29561 29 Telangana 3703 2647 5413 5214 7195 6516 7647 6321 10804 8149 30 Tripura 1893 836 2274 1781 2744 2237 3386 2653 4309 2765 31 UT Ladakh 408 328 535 384 624 355 585 462 965 686 32 Uttar Pradesh 41995 27673 52909 46948 55972 46109 60513 49873 81135 61939 33 Uttarakhand 6383 4829 6258 4413 7007 5599 7505 5711 13203 9503 34 West Bengal 5876 4591 9182 7073 12169 9605 14094 10709 19470 14864 Total 255141 185234 314114 256429 409802 325880 451419 350272 621210 467259 ***** Page 5 of 5