Dehradun

Bankers should provide financial aid to youths: DM

PNS

Chairing a meeting of the State Bank of India Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI), Tehri District Magistrate Sonika said that bankers should ensure provision of financial assistance on priority basis to youth who have been trained for self employment. Directing that the chief development officer should also be invited to the next RSETI meeting, she further said that all officials and members concerned should attend the meeting to enable proper review. RSETI’s purpose should not be limited to training but also extend to facilitating loans for the trained youths through banks for self employment. RSETI director Suraj Prakash informed that against the target of training more than 400 youth in 16 training programmes during financial year 2017-18 203 youth had been trained in 12 training programmes.