• E-Foundation stone laying ceremony of the new training Institute building of National Academy of RUDSETI (NAR)
• The NAR undertakes monitoring, mentoring and capacity building of the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes staff (585 RSETIs are spread across 566 districts of the country), State/UT Rural Livelihood Mission staff and the concerned Bank officials on behalf of the Ministry of Rural Development.

• RSETIs are unique initiative where State Governments, the Union Govt. and the commercial Banks are working together to address the issue of rural poverty.
• NAR helps in standardizing the activities of RSETIs, and a new campus of NAR helps in accelerating the effort
• Various international platforms appreciated the adoption of successful RUDSETI model and recalled how this fine replication in the form of RSETIs is shaping the lives of the millions of rural unemployed youth.
• The great role of the Ministry of Rural Development in ensuring all the Banks in the country accept the RSETI model.
• This has resulted in establishment of one of the largest network of entrepreneurship development training in the country.

• A unique initiative was taken way back in 1982, in a humble manner, for converting unemployed youth into prolific assets.
• The experiment was found successful and resulted in the establishment of Rural Development & Self Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI)
• RUDSETI has established its centers across the country. (through NAR)
• Realizing the result oriented and cost efficient approach of RUDSETI in mitigating the unemployment problem, Government of India, State Governments, SIDBI & NABARD supported establishing of RUDSET Institutes across the country and nurtured the concept.

• National Academy of RUDSETI (NAR) is a resource organization committed to Entrepreneurship Development through motivation, training and facilitation.
• It is an exceptional joint venture promoted by two public sector Banks(Syndicate and Canara Bank) and SDME trust
• NAR has been established to spread RUDSETI model of Entrepreneurship Development, which has been found effective in motivating the un-employed youth to take up self-employment as a career option.
• National Academy of RUDSETI (NAR), an offshoot of RUDSETI movement is spearheading the concept by Training the Trainers/facilitators and mentoring the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) established across the country.

• The concept of RSETIs has been inspired by the very successful RUDSETI model promoted by SDME Trust, SyndicateBank and Canara Bank way back in1982
• The RUDSETI has trained over 3.91 lakh unemployed youth in various activities across the country through its 27 Institutes.
• RUDSETI's philosophy is to motivate the unemployed rural youth to take up self-employment through short term training intervention with long term hand-holding.
• Inspired by the unique approach of RUDSETI in addressing the unemployment problem, the Ministry of Rural Development decided to establish one Rural Self-Employment Training Institute (RSETI) replicating the RUDSETI model in each district of the country.
• Lead Bank operating in the District has been assigned with the responsibility of opening a RSETI in the district
• The State Governments concerned have been advised to provide land free of cost to the RSETIs.
• The sponsoring banks of the RSETIs in each District have been advised to meet the cost of running these Institutes, deputing an officer to work as Director of RSETI, providing requisite supporting staff at each RSETI and most importantly to ensure credit linkage of the RSETI trained candidates.

Relevance IN - Prelims ( about AIMA Chanakya National Management Games + about AIMA)
What's the NEWS

• Team NTPC emerge as winner at the recently concluded All India Management Association (AIMA) - Chanakya (Business Simulation Game) National Management Games (NMG) 2020.
• NTPC won the prestigious National Management Games for the first time in five years.

• AIMA Chanakya National Management Games, an online Business Simulation Game conducted every year is aimed at ensuring that participating executives from various industries get an introduction to the complexities of running an organisation and gain expertise and skills from this event.
• National Management Games (NMG) is one of its kind platform for Corporate Managers to face the thrill of Managing Business in a competitive mode.
• It is one of the most anticipated and reputable annual events based on Business Management Simulation, conducted by AIMA (All India Management Association).
• The participants experience the complexities of running a company by focusing on
• resource management, market trends, cost analysis, product positioning, production planning, and inventory control.
• NMG is conducted in 2 levels; one at the Regional round (includes two sub-levels: Preliminary and Regional Final), and the second is the Final round.

Know! about AIMA

• The All India Management Association (AIMA) is the apex body for management in India with over 38000 members and close to 6000 corporate /institutional members through 66 Local Management Associations affiliated to it.
• AIMA was formed over 60 years ago and is a non-lobbying, not for profit organisation, working closely with industry, Government, academia and students, to further the cause of the management profession in India.
• The association is represented on a number of policy making bodies of the Government of India and national associations including All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which is the apex regulatory body for professional education in the country under the Ministry of Human Resource Development; National Board of Accreditation (NBA)

Social Justice
National Tribal Research Conclave

Relevance IN - Prelims ( about National Tribal Research Conclave + about the role of NITR + about TRIs + steps taken by tribal ministry) + Mains ( GS II Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
What's the NEWS

• Ministry of Tribal affairs inaugurated the session of "National Tribal Research Conclave" organized by Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Tribal Affairs, (M/o Tribal Affairs), Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)
• Know! about National Institute for Tribal Research (NITR)
• National Institute for Tribal research is being set up in partnership with IIPA at the IIPA premises in Delhi
• These partner organizations are designated as Centres of Excellence
• Ministry along with such partner organisations design workable models which provide end to end solution, like problem identification, finding solution and execution of the project as part of Action research which can be implemented by policy initiatives

Know! about Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs)

• It was started in 1953.
• To fill up the data gaps and make available other related inputs regarding nature and magnitude of problems faced by different Tribal Groups.
• The first such Institute was setup at Bhubaneswar, Odisha in 1953 followed by other two institutes at Ranchi (Bihar) and Chhindwara (MP) in 1954.
• Currently, 25 such Institutes are functioning across the Country, under the administrative control of the respective State Governments.
• These institutes activity cost and infrastructure including buildings are fully funded by the Central Government through Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
• Expenditure on salary of staff is met by the State Governments.
• Tribal Research Institutes have a very important role to play and their Research should help to draw road map for future development.
• Research by TRIs should help to achieve the goal "Mera Van Mera Dhan, Mera Udhyam" since forests are not only important for environment but play a major role in tribal livelihoods.
• Ministry of Tribal Affairs is funding to 26 TRIs for research under Grant to TRIs and is engaged in quality research in collaboration with reputed Government and Non-Government Organizations for the welfare of tribal in areas of Livelihood, Education, Health, Water Conservation, Organic Farming, Skill Development, Tribal Culture & Festivals

Know! some of the recent initiatives taken by the ministry in collaboration

• Centre for Excellence for Data Analytics (CEDA) is analysing tribal data for various schemes and has developed "Performance and Monitoring Dashboard" (dashboard.tribal.gov.in) which was recently launched by NITI Aayog
• Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation, an autonomous organisation under RD Ministry is working on gradation of NGOs and improve monitoring for NGO projects.
• Piramal Foundation is working for creation of a consolidated health and nutrition data repository for tribal population and for providing data analytics support to facilitate evidence-based policy making and implementation strategies, and has launched Swasthya portal (swasthya.tribal.gov.in).
• TERI is engaged with MoTA on developing an economical model for Community Rights under Forest Rights Act.
• IIT Delhi has been given a project for development of a Data driven framework by using Data analytics to identify the villages that are having maximum socio-economic gaps, so that data drive planning can be made.
• GOAL (Going Online as Leaders) is also one such initiative of Facebook, which is funded by Facebook and various organizations working with Ministry of Tribal Affairs are the Institutional partners in this project.

Prelims Factoids
EESL to procure 250 Electric Vehicles

Relevance IN - Prelims ( about EESL + about ANERT)
What's the NEWS

• Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a Super Energy Service Company (ESCO) under the administrative control of Ministry of Power, Government of India, will procure 250 electric vehicles from Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor India.
• This procurement will utilize 5 Million USD from the recent grant provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
• EESL has received financing from ADB towards the cost of scaling up and financing high priority areas like
• EESL has already received an order for 300 Long Range EVs from The Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT), Kerala to be supplied in initial phase.
• The Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT)
• ANERT is an autonomous organisation established during 1986 under Societies Act by the Government of Kerala, now functioning under power dept; with its Head Quarters at Thiruvananthapuram.
• The objective of the Agency is to gather and disseminate useful knowledge in various fields of Non-Conventional Energy, Energy Conservation and Rural Technology
• The Agency is better known by its acronym ANERT and has become a synonym for Renewable Sources of Energy and Energy Conservation in the State.
• ANERT is guided by an Executive Committee chaired by the Chairman, Secretary power dept; and a Governing Body chaired by the Minister of Electricity, Govt. of Kerala to provide guidelines for ANERT's activities in various energy related areas.
• ANERT is the State Nodal Agency (SNA) for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Govt. of India, to carry out the Centrally Assisted Programmes in Kerala.

• ANERT is headed by a Director appointed by the Government.

Know! about Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)

• It is an energy service company (ESCO) of the Government of India and is the world's largest public ESCO.
• It is 100% government-owned, a joint venture of state-owned NTPC Limited, Power Finance Corporation, REC Limited and POWERGRID.
• EESL was formed under India's Ministry of Power to facilitate energy efficiency projects.

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