eprintid: 478 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 4 dir: disk0/00/00/04/78 datestamp: 2015-11-20 00:31:22 lastmod: 2015-11-20 00:31:22 status_changed: 2015-11-20 00:31:22 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Janardhana, K.N. corp_creators: Rural Development and Self-employment Training Institute (RSETI), India title: NEW WAVE OF SOCIAL CHANGE ispublished: pub subjects: L1 full_text_status: public keywords: unemployment, self employment, social change, RSETI abstract: Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges that India has been facing in the process of its development. Millions of unemployed youth particularly from rural and semi-urban background who could not access higher/professional education but are oriented towards white collar jobs are driven to despair for not finding a job. In these circumstances Rural Development & Self Employment Training Institute [RUDSETI] was established in the year 1982 jointly by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank under the visionary leadership of Dr D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala. Encouraged by the success of RUDSET, Ministry of Rural Development GOVT India replicated RUDSTI model at all India level and advised all the Banks to establish one RUDSETI type institute in each of their Lead Districts by name Rural Self-Employment Training Institute (RSETI) for training the rural unemployed youth to take up self employment ventures during 2008-09. With the various initiatives taken by the sponsoring Banks and the continuous mentoring and monitoring of all the RSETIs, as at the end of March 2013, 3,37,290 unemployed youth were trained by 549 functional RSETIs across the country during the year 2012-13 out of which 68% of the candidates have been successful in establishing their own enterprises and earning on their own Present papers explains how RSETI has helped unemployed youth to start their own self employment ventures and thereby contributed for eradication of serious problems of unemployment, poverty, hunger and rural development. date: 2015 date_type: published publication: PROCEEDINGS 3rd REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT publisher: Institut Aminuddin Baki pagerange: 187-192 refereed: TRUE official_url: http://www.iab.edu.my citation: Janardhana, K.N. (2015) NEW WAVE OF SOCIAL CHANGE. PROCEEDINGS 3rd REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT. pp. 187-192. document_url: http://eprints.iab.edu.my/v2/478/1/187.pdf