A structured approach for addressing the skill gap in rural India through demand based, region based and outcome based programmes through the following approaches/Models/Training Partners:
1. NSDC affiliated Training Institutes
2. Government Agencies
3. RUDSETIs/RSETIs
4. Corporate Partners
5. NGOs/VAs
6. Skill Loan
Details given below:
The financial support to these training providers will be based on the cost norms fixed by NSDC and notified by 'Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship' ,GoI vide Gazette Notification dated 15/7/2015 and 20/5/2016
Support for training will be provided in the following sectors/sub sectors,in collaboration with NSDC/Sector Skill Councils and through discussions with NSDC partners in the respective States/Districts. Such proposals are initially to be forwarded by Regional Offices to HO for consideration:
Hank Dyer, Cone Winder cum Pirn Winder, Warper, Two Shaft Handloom Weaver, Jacquard Weaver-Handloom, Card Puncher (Automatic machine), Textile Designer-Handloom Jacquard, Jacquard Harness Builder, Handloom Entrepreneur.
Assistant Catering Manager, Assistant facility Manager, Bell Boy, Bell Captain, Billing Executive, Boat Jetty Incharge, Bungee Jump Guide, F&B Service Steward, F&B Service Trainee, Front office Executive, Guest House Caretaker, Heritage Tourist Guide, Tour Manager, Tour Vehicle Driver, Street Food Vendor, Room Attendant, Kitchen steward, Laundry Machine Operator, Meet and Greet Officer, Meeting Conference and Event Planner.
Agriculture Extension Executive, Agriculture Extension Service Providor, Animal Health Worker, Bamboo Grower, Banana Farmer, Bee keeper, Broiler Farm Worker, Dairy farmer, Dairy worker, Floriculturist, Green House fitter, Mango Grower, Solar Pump Technician, Tractor Operator, Warehouse Worker, Supply Chain Field Assistant.
Driver (Commercial Vehicle), Forklift Operator, Sorter in Courier Industry, Warehouse Picker.
Dairy Products Processor, Supervisor: Dairy Products Processing, Quality Assurance Manager, Food Microbiologist, Lab Technician, Store Asst, Fork Lift Operator, Operator - Primary Packaging Machine, Operator - Secondary & Tertiary Packaging Machine, Food Regulatory Affairs Manager, Cold storage Technician.
Leather Goods and Garments (Cutter, Stitcher, Helper); Footwear (Cutter, Helper, Operator, Product development, CAD-CAM operator, Store Manager).
Self-employed Tailor, Hand Embroider, Fabric Cutter, Export Assistant, Fashion Designer, Industrial Engineer Executive, Machine maintenance mechanic sewing machine, Garment Cutter, Cutting supervisor, processing supervisor (Dyeing & Printing)..
Automotive Body Technician, Casting Technician, Commercial Vehicle Driver, Driver Assistant, Machining Technician, Painter, Spares Parts Operation Executive, Welding Technician, Taxi Driver, Showroom Hostess.
ITIs established and managed by State Governments may be partnered with, for providing technical training, provided their byelaws/mandate/rules permit acceptance of financial assistance from agencies like NABARD. Also ITI students may be provided EDP trainings through other training establishments.
Similarly, State handloom/ handicraft corporations and similar State owned corporations/ State Govt. undertakings/ Panchayati Raj Institutions/ DIC/ Government sponsored institutions/ KVKs/ autonomous institutions set up by Govt. etc. would be eligible for NABARDs grant assistance.
The agencies must have been established or constituted by or under any Central Act or State Act and major share of the paid up capital is held or controlled by the Central /State Government.
NABARD assistance will be supplementary in nature and in case the agencies have budgetary provision, they may have to utilize the same in the agreed proportion.
NABARD will support Custom made/need based skill training programmes of eligible RUDSETIs/RSETIs
i. Institutions rated ‘AA’ by MoRD, GoI.
ii. Institutions rated ‘AA’, ‘AB’, ‘AC’ (Institutions in existence for more than 3 years) & ‘A’, ‘B’,’C’ (Institutions in existence for less than 3 years) in NE States, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, LWE affected/hilly/backward districts having more of SC/ST population.
NABARD would provide grant support to the RUDSETIs/RSETIs to meet the recurring expenditure on the following items, directly related to training:
Inauguration and valediction
Expenses on Boarding & Lodging of the trainees
Raw material for practical/ on the job training
Stationery/ Course material
Salary for trainers/ Faculty Members
Honorarium to Guest Faculty
Rent for Class Room/ Hostel (Only if rented on commercial lines from other than the sponsors)
Expenses for field visits in respect of such of the programmes.
Monitoring and follow-up
NABARD will support 50% of the training cost in respect of the activities specified aboveif the training is sponsored by one bank. If the training is sponsored by two or more banks, the grant assistance will be worked out proportionately.
Partnership with CSR Trusts, reputed corporates for taking up skill development activities in non-farm sectorwhere settlement rate of atleast 60% is assured or where the corporates can absorb them.
Good working NGOs,Voluntary organisations and similar such agencies may be provided grant assistance for providing training through training institutes set up by them for organising training for SHG groups/rural youth/school drop outs etc.
The support, in the form ofgrant (towards recurring expenditure only ) will be provided only if the organization has established/set up training institute with good infrastructural facilities and assurance of placement/settlement rate of atleast 60% is assured.
(i) Voluntary agencies, NGOs, trusts with proven track record.
(ii) Should be a legal entity.
(iii) The agency should have been working in rural areas/semi urban areas for atleast three years.
(iv) It should not discriminate on the basis of religion, caste, sex, race etc.
(v) Its office bearers should not be the office bearers of any political party and /or elected member of any legislative body.
(vi) NGOs debarred by State/Central Government and other agencies will not be eligible for support from NABARD.
(vii) The grant exposure norms as prescribed by NABARD will be followed.
(viii) Rating of NGOs as prescribed NABARD.NGOs scoring less than 60% marks will not be eligible for grant support. In case of North East region, the NGOs scoring less than 50% will not be eligible for grant support.
NABARD will associate with Tier I (having good infrastructural facilities)partners identified by Regional Officesin emerging areas of skilling viz. hospitality, women drivers,housekeeping, day-care etc.
NABARD had piloted a loan based project through PARFI (PANIIT Alumni Reach for India ) for providing training to 5659 rural youth in LWE areas with 100% placement.
Financial assistance will be given for similar models if implemented through competent agencies. In such cases NABARD would provide grant assistance to one of the subsidiaries of NABARD which in turn would provide loan to trainees, to be recovered after they get employed .
The details of the pilot project are given below:
A loan based project of Rs.4.76 crore was sanctioned to “PANIIT Alumni Reach for India”(PARFI), a not for profit, section 25 social enterprise for setting up 20 gurukuls, aimed at skill building and assured placement for the school dropouts from very poor rural households in 9 states in the construction activities like masonary, bar bending, fork lifting, plumbing, air conditioning, electrical wiring, heavy vehicle driving, catering etc.
The project has been assisted through grant assistance of Rs.60.00 lakh towards organizational cost, Rs. 60.00 lakh towards start-up expenses for setting up 20 Gurukuls and Revolving Fund Assistance of Rs. 356.00 lakh). RFA of Rs. 193.00 lakh has been released so far.
The agency has already set-up 20 gurukul units as part of the pilot, 7 in Jharkhand, 5 in Tamil Nadu, 2 each in Rajasthan and Bihar, and one each in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtraall of which are targeted to school drop-outs, poor youth from naxalite affected areas.
As part of the pilot project, 5659 trainees have been trained in 237 batches with 100% placement rate (including self-employment especially in driving, catering).
Based on the success of the PANIIT model, it was decided during 2015-16 to institutionalize the project through sanction of grant assistance of Rs.5 crore to NABFINS (a subsidiary of NABARD) for extending skill loans through Gurukuls set up by PARFI. Grant assistance of Rs. 20 lakhs has been sanctioned to PANIIT to meet their management expenses and opening of new Gurukul Centres.
Sanction of proposals may be made at RO level, by Project Sanctioning Committee set up at RO and within the existing delegation of powers. In case of release of funds for claims made by RUDSETIs/RSETIs, the amount will be released only after completion of the programme on quarterly basis. In case of other agencies, the amount may be released based on the terms and conditions of the sanction letter.
All releases will be made against receipt of proper documents from the concerned agencies/Institute.
NABARD is India’s apex development financial institution, established by an Act of Parliament in 1982 and owned by the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India. Our mandate is to bring rural prosperity through credit and non credit initiatives in the fields of agriculture, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and small scale industries
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