Haryana Government would set up 59 more training centres in different blocks of the State to impart training to rural youth in different trades like hospitality, retail, BPOs, sales and marketing, security, electrician, and information technology. Haryana Additional Chief Secretary, Rural Development, Navraj Sandhu on Tuesday reviewed the implementation of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and Haryana State Rural livelihoods Mission (HSRlM) in a meeting with senior officers here.
She said that at present, 2,679 poor rural youth are being imparted training at 38 centres and the remaining centres would be established by August 2015. It was informed in the meeting that from November 2014 to May 2015, as many as 2,637 rural poor youth have been provided training in different trades at various centres established in different districts.
In all, 97 centres will be established by August 2015. Out of the trained rural youth, 2003 youths have been provided jobs in various organisations in Haryana and outside states. Navraj advised the senior officers to mobilise the rural poor youth of villages, which have been adopted under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). All the programme implementation agencies were directed to adopt a saturation approach in these villages. They were also directed to take the help of village organizations, self help groups, Panchayats, block development and Panchayat officers and officers of the district administration for mobilizing the rural poor youth for these trainings.
Haryana State Rural livelihoods Mission (HSRlM) has also initiated different activities under National Rural livelihoods Mission (NRlM) in villages adopted by the Members of lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha under SAGY scheme. 126 self help groups of poor women have been formed in 15 villages under SAGY. HSRlM has also undertaken livelihood activities in agriculture sector in four resource blocks namely Matanhail, Siwan, Bawani Khera and Narnaund. Under this initiative selected farmers of self help groups are motivated to adopt organic farming.
As many as 31 community resource persons from Andhra Pradesh are guiding the farmers selected in the villages. So far, 59 farmers have come forward in 10 villages to undertake Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture Activities (CMSA). All these initiatives will lead to provide sustainable livelihoods to the rural poor people in the state, said Navraj.