Parliament Question: Status of Rural Self Employment Training Institutes

O.I.H. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2953 ANSWERED ON 10/03/2026 STATUS OF RURAL SELF EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INSTITUTES 2953. Shri Ajay Bhatt: Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) the details of the schemes implemented for skill development of youth in the country and the funds allocated and utilized for each of the said schemes during the last one year and the current year; (b) the details of the training institutes currently running under these schemes in Pauri, Almora, Nainital and Rudrapur Dehat districts of Uttarakhand, location wise; (c) the number of persons who have been provided training in the country, State-wise; (d) the details of the persons provided training by the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETI) during the last two years and the current year; and (e) whether any loan/financial assistance has been provided to these groups/institutes during the said period, if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Uttarakhand? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN) (a): Under the Government of India’s Skill India Mission (SIM), ministries provide skill, reskill, and upskill training through multiple schemes designed to address diverse demographic and economic needs, all implemented under common norms. The Ministry of Rural Development implements the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) Page 1 of 9to promote wage employment, self-employment, and entrepreneurship among rural poor youth, with a mandate of achieving at least 70% placement or settlement of trained candidates. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship implements skill development initiatives such as Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS), and the Craftsman Training Scheme (CTS) through a network of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country. A brief on the Schemes are as under:- I. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY): DDU-GKY is a placement-linked skill development program for rural poor youth in the age group of 15-35 years. It empowers the rural poor youth with employable skills and facilitates their participation in regular labour markets, thus providing them with jobs having regular monthly wages at or above the minimum wages. DDU-GKY guideline provides social inclusion of SC/ST (50%), Women (33%), and PwDs (5%). II. Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs): The programme is implemented through a three-way partnership between the Ministry of Rural Development, Sponsor Banks and State/UT Governments, with a provision to establish one RSETI in each district, managed by the Lead Bank, with ₹2 crore assistance for infrastructure and 100% training cost for rural poor youth funded by Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). RSETIs provide short-term, demand-driven training programmes aligned with the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) for rural youth in the 18–50 years age group, with emphasis on social inclusion. The institutes also facilitate credit linkage with banks and provide handholding support to trainees for up to two years after completion of training to help them establish and sustain self-employment ventures. Page 2 of 9The details of funds allocated and utilized under DDU-GKY & RSETI during the last year and the current year (till Feb 2026) are as follows: (₹ in Crore) Scheme DDU-GKY RSETI Funds Funds released/ Funds Funds released/ FY allocated utilized allocated utilized 2024-25 500.00 374.99 250.00 248.41 2025-26 750.00 407.81 300.00 227.52 Source: Records of Rural Skills Division III. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY): PMKVY Scheme is for imparting skill development training through Short-Term Training (STT) and up-skilling and re-skilling through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) to youth across the country IV. Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) : The main target of the JSS is to impart vocational skills to the non-literates, neo-literates and the persons having rudimentary level of education and school dropouts upto 12th standard in the age group of 15-45 years, with due age relaxation in case of “Divyangjan” and other deserving cases. Priority is given to Women, SC, ST, OBC and Minorities in the rural areas and urban low-income areas. V. National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS): This Scheme is for promoting apprenticeship training and increasing the engagement of apprentices by providing financial support for payment of stipend to apprentices. Training consists of Basic Training and On-the Job Training / Practical Training at workplace in the industry. VI. Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS): This scheme is for providing long-term training through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country. The ITIs offer a range of vocational/skill training courses covering a large number of economic sectors with an objective to provide skilled workforce to the industry as well as self employment of youth. Page 3 of 9The details of funds released under Schemes of MSDE during the last year and the current year (till Dec 2026) are as follows: (₹ in Crore) FY PMKVY JSS NAPS Remarks 2024- 1550.01 139.55 585.96 Funds under PMKVY are released to 25 implementing agencies for meeting the training cost as per prescribed norms. Under JSS scheme, funds are released to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) directly. Under NAPS, stipend support up to Rs 2025- 140.35 111.81 415.04 1500/- per month is released to 26 apprentices through DBT and not to the establishments covered. Day to day administration as well as financial control in respect of CTS scheme implemented through ITIs lies with the respective State Government/UT Administration. Source : MSDE (b): The details of the training institutes currently running in Pauri, Almora, Nainital and Rudrapur Dehat districts of Uttarakhand are given Annexure-I. (c): The details of the number of persons who have been provided training in the country, State-wise are given in Annexure-II, III and IV. (d) & (e): The details of persons trained under RSETI, along with financial assistance (credit linkage), State-wise, during the last 2 years and the current year are given in Annexure-V. ***** Page 4 of 9Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2953 due for reply on 10.03.2026. The Skill India Mission (SIM) aims at enabling youth of India to get future ready, equipped with industry relevant skills. The schemes for skill development are demand driven and the most of the schemes set up/engaged training centres (TCs) on need basis to impart the training across the country. (a) Details of functional RSETIs in Pauri, Almora, Nainital and Rudrapur Dehat districts of Uttarakhand: RSETI S. District Name RSETI Name Sponsor Address No. Bank State Near Bajaj Showroom, 1 Pauri Garhwal SBI Pauri Bank of Kotdwar Road, Pauri India Garhwal, State Near Block Office, 2 Almora SBI Almora Bank of Hawalbag, India Near Hotel Narottam Inn, BOB Haldwani Bank of 3 Nainital Nainital road, Haldwani- (Nainital) Baroda Distt-Nainital Udham Singh Plot No-42, Sec-5,Bank Of BOB Udham Nagar Bank of Baroda Builing, Near Pani Ki 4 Singh Nagar (Rudrapur Baroda Tanki, Sidcul Pantnagar (Pantnagar) Dehat) (Udham Singh Nagar) Source: NACER (b) Under DDU-GKY, currently, no training institute is functional in the above districts of Uttarakhand. (c) Number of Skill Development Training Centers of MSDE in Uttarakhand: ITIs PMKVY 4.0 (as on NAPS Centres JSS centers 31.12.2025) Establishments (STT+SP) State/UT (as on (as on (as on 31.12.2025) 31.12.2025) Govt. Pvt. 31.12.2025) ITIs ITIs Uttarakhand 196 875 99 71 8 Source : MSDE Page 5 of 9Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2953 due for reply on 10.03.2026. Details of persons who have been provided training in the country, State- wise under DDU-GKY since inception till Jan 2026: Cumulative Total (till Jan 2026) S. No. State Trained 1 Andhra Pradesh 148692 2 Arunachal Pradesh 2435 3 Assam 86136 4 Bihar 80518 5 Chhattisgarh 59575 6 Gujarat 32404 7 Haryana 56041 8 Himachal Pradesh 19793 9 Jammu and Kashmir 72602 10 Jharkhand 82754 11 Karnataka 56911 12 Kerala 76984 13 Madhya Pradesh 93391 14 Maharashtra 71011 15 Manipur 7913 16 Meghalaya 9070 17 Mizoram 3478 18 Nagaland 8150 19 Odisha 218770 20 Punjab 54075 21 Rajasthan 87409 22 Sikkim 3306 23 Tamil Nadu 80161 24 Telangana 75165 25 Tripura 13221 26 Uttar Pradesh 254238 27 Uttarakhand 25704 28 West Bengal 45273 29 Puducherry 3154 30 A. N Islands 1017 Total 1829351 Source: Kaushal Bharat Portal. Page 6 of 9Annexure-III Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2953 due for reply on 10.03.2026. Details of persons who have been provided training in the country, State- wise, under RSETI since inception till Jan 2026: Cummulative since inception till Jan SL Name of the State 2025 No. Trained Andaman and Nicobar 1 5769 Islands 2 Andhra Pradesh 188687 3 Arunachal Pradesh 4782 4 Assam 195151 5 Bihar 391373 6 Chattisgarh 174726 7 D & N Haveli 9046 8 Goa 368 9 Gujarat 357124 10 Haryana 198031 11 Himachal Pradesh 87085 12 Jammu & Kashmir 122400 13 Jharkhand 246330 14 Karnataka 438049 15 Kerala 164219 16 Lakshadweep 2596 17 Madhya Pradesh 469832 18 Maharashtra 345885 19 Manipur 9610 20 Meghalaya 24936 21 Mizoram 9753 22 Nagaland 5150 23 Odisha 306686 24 Pondicherry 11741 25 Punjab 162042 26 Rajasthan 452820 27 Sikkim 6200 28 Tamil Nadu 354505 29 Telangana 107790 30 Tripura 41580 31 UT Ladakh 6077 32 Uttar Pradesh 799436 33 Uttarakhand 106093 34 West Bengal 198570 TOTAL : 6004442 Source: NACER Page 7 of 9Annexure–IV Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2953 due for reply on 10.03.2026. Details of persons who have been provided training in the country, State- wise, under Schemes of MSDE since inception till Dec 2025: PMKVY- JSS CTS / ITI- NAPS*-Engaged Trained/Oriented Trained/Oriented Enrolled State/UP (Since 2018-19 (since inception to (Since 2018-19 to (Since 2018-19 to 31.12.2025) 31.12.2025) 31.12.2025) to 31.12.2025) A&N Islands 5,501 7,360 420 4,574 Andhra 416,695 5,28,234 1,03,521 Pradesh 80,248 Arunachal 5,059 98,157 341 Pradesh 726 Assam 8,39,672 68,386 50,120 31,356 Bihar 7,60,662 2,29,447 31,314 884,949 Chandigarh 28,035 12,120 6,523 7,679 Chhattisgarh 2,04,543 1,46,565 30,498 176,809 Delhi 5,27,730 40,609 1,18,244 80,267 Goa 10,484 12,547 45,002 16,408 Gujarat 4,71,954 1,23,173 5,15,340 680,947 Haryana 7,63,070 53,750 3,54,661 430,045 Himachal 163,850 1,76,674 44,092 Pradesh 86,411 Jammu And 57,682 4,29,954 5,429 Kashmir 13,236 Jharkhand 3,14,165 1,02,540 54,049 283,095 Karnataka 6,05,744 1,43,999 3,92,353 564,167 Kerala 2,74,836 1,18,023 70,625 269,251 Ladakh 4,076 912 186 2,005 Lakshadweep 390 4,733 46 2,356 Madhya 582,081 12,16,005 1,29,859 Pradesh 3,66,982 Maharashtra 13,32,519 2,75,214 12,15,498 945,222 Manipur 1,15,021 49,070 522 3,482 Meghalaya 58,967 5,980 1,139 5,661 Mizoram 44,147 6,591 432 2,533 Nagaland 54,055 12,322 117 2,014 Odisha 6,02,452 3,11,556 56,476 443,484 Puducherry 35,597 - 14,775 6,040 Punjab 5,63,757 22,653 83,788 337,863 Rajasthan 14,08,412 95,209 1,00,199 846,973 Sikkim 19,479 - 1,943 2,569 Tamil Nadu 8,89,722 1,00,901 4,72,590 284,559 Telangana 4,64,884 79,622 2,02,443 255,735 DNH & DD 11,842 15,412 12,790 4,640 Tripura 1,60,367 20,096 2,465 17,811 Uttar Pradesh 25,09,363 6,18,416 3,60,627 2,550,273 Uttarakhand 2,52,138 94,994 1,00,744 83,686 West Bengal 6,51,602 94,378 1,38,619 290,331 Overall 1,64,34,210 34,14,181 47,17,790 1,07,42,151 *for 2133 apprentices state/UT is not defined Source : MSDE Page 8 of 9Annexure-V Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) & (e) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2953 due for reply on 10.03.2026. Details of persons who have been provided training along with financial assistance (credit linkage) in the country, State-wise, under RSETI during the last 2 years and current year till Jan 2026: 2025-26 ( up to 2023-24 2024-25 S. Name of the 31.01.2026) No. State Credit Credit Credit Trained Settled Trained Settled Trained Settled Linkage Linkage Linkage Andaman and 1 Nicobar 500 451 284 611 497 388 552 388 220 Islands Andhra 2 11432 8536 4685 16174 12038 6544 13940 10274 5510 Pradesh Arunachal 3 499 287 201 1042 779 391 680 351 100 Pradesh 4 Assam 18132 12155 6518 26097 19080 10590 18632 11049 5229 5 Bihar 30434 24495 14830 41900 32128 18770 30232 19597 11239 6 Chattisgarh 15040 10848 7178 19079 14328 8052 17980 11361 5827 7 D & N Haveli 752 528 265 769 547 286 462 395 205 8 Gujarat 23117 15363 8229 30705 22256 11607 19314 13575 6606 9 Haryana 15153 10760 4433 20647 15061 7584 13512 9194 3880 Himachal 10 6876 5187 2545 10450 7614 4269 6734 4146 1568 Pradesh Jammu & 11 8589 6397 4100 19785 14325 7631 10109 7635 4250 Kashmir 12 Jharkhand 20760 15370 9082 26681 19849 11708 18068 11989 6375 13 Karnataka 25613 20284 12592 31238 23696 13423 25784 18276 10134 14 Kerala 10690 8389 6126 14614 11355 7019 10976 8568 5516 15 Lakshadweep 467 346 163 589 419 210 449 333 190 Madhya 16 35859 27754 17364 50160 36467 20261 41897 24864 11948 Pradesh 17 Maharashtra 30397 22961 12902 41123 30129 16242 29041 19446 9988 18 Manipur 1109 903 754 2664 2057 1325 1631 1021 520 19 Meghalaya 2508 1580 856 3840 2779 1490 2123 1021 338 20 Mizoram 1055 1053 390 2324 1366 517 983 1252 309 21 Nagaland 603 332 176 669 484 270 500 385 202 22 Odisha 22056 19544 13363 30046 24998 17191 21289 16682 10977 23 Pondicherry 911 712 483 1251 880 567 920 518 392 24 Punjab 12332 9398 5749 17779 13274 6711 12203 7592 3383 25 Rajasthan 33293 26740 16388 43116 32669 18371 25239 18592 10358 26 Sikkim 439 335 227 1020 717 361 822 507 260 27 Tamil Nadu 29073 23835 15073 36951 29561 16351 33851 25169 13924 28 Telangana 7647 6321 4281 10804 8149 4705 9403 5605 3092 29 Tripura 3386 2653 1436 4309 2765 1463 2926 2245 1144 30 UT Ladakh 585 462 222 965 686 401 764 581 281 31 Uttar Pradesh 60513 49873 31034 81135 61939 37309 59269 40479 21233 32 Uttarakhand 7505 5711 3872 13203 9503 6016 6151 4691 2909 33 West Bengal 14094 10709 7544 19470 14864 9640 15550 10236 6606 TOTAL 451419 350272 213345 621210 467259 267663 451986 308017 164713 Source: NACER ***** Page 9 of 9