Mysuru:  Rural Development and Self Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI) started in 1982, at a small village Ujire near Srikshetra Dharmasthala under the visionary leadership of Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala. So far 27 RUDSETIs spread over 17 States working towards eradication of poverty and unemployment.

RUDSET Institute was started in Mysuru in 1992 at a small house near the foot of Chamundi Hill. The Mysuru unit has completed 26 years and the 26th Year Annual Activities Report was released at Dharmasthala by Dr.  D. Veerendra Heggade. The Mysuru unit has a command area of over Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar.

RUDSET Institute provides different skill training programmes to the unemployed youth in the age group of 18-45 years. The duration of the training programme range from 10 days to 45 days. All the training programmes are free of cost including boarding and lodging facilities. The philosophy of the RUDSETI is to channelize the youth power in wealth creation of our nation by taking-up a self-employment venture.

Last year, the Mysuru unit conducted 32 self employment training programmes, as against the budgeted 31 programmes, covering 757 candidates. Post training follow-up is the Unique Selling Preposition (USP) of RUDSETI training.    

Rural Development is RUDSETI’s main motto and last year it covered 545 candidates from rural area, 44 from semi-urban sector and 168 from urban sector. Among 32 self employment training programmes conducted during the year, eight were under Government-Sponsored Schemes involving 204 candidates.   

Eighty-one Entrepreneurship Awareness Programmes were conducted covering 4,083 beneficiaries and 13 sensitisation programmes covering about 421 candidates have been conducted along with 12 Entrepreneurship Orientation Programme.    

Banks have provided financial assistance to 222 of trained candidates and among them Syndicate Bank has provided a loan for an amount of Rs.57.56 lakh to eight candidates, Canara Bank has extended an amount of  Rs. 270.46 lakh to 35 candidates, Kaveri Grameena Bank has extended loans to 119 trainees to the tune of more than rupees one crore. Other banks have provided financial assistance to 60 trained candidates covering Rs. 95.98 lakh. Looking into the gender-wise training participation, of the 757 trained candidates, 281 are women candidates, 469 men and seven transgenders.

Muralidhar Halappa, Chairman, Karnataka Skill Development Corporation, Bengaluru and Rameshwar Singh, IAS (Rtd.), Chairman, Central Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Rural Development visited the Mysuru centre.   

In addition, seven teams of  191 delegates from Afro-Asian, Middle East and Latin American nations covering Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zaire, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Mauritius, Tazakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Yangon, Cambodia, Fuzi, El-Salvador, Bhutan, Sri. Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh visited the Institute.