Women empowerment through skill development the role of Rudseti in India.
Jamunarani H.S, Mcom, Mphil,.
Assistant professor of commerce
H.P.P.C GFGC CHALLAKERE
Email jamunaranicta@gmail.com Mobile no: 9980187177
Chitradurga 577501
Abstract:
This paper studies contributing to the skill and economic development of women and their employment. The skill development initiatives taken up by the government of India to make India a global reservoir of skilled women in the years to follow. Empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of country. While everything about women in the past and in history is dark and dismal. Women of late are seen in the forefront both in economic and social activities, several NGOs, voluntary organizations training establishments such as Rural development and self- employment training institutions( RUDSETIS) have been conducting customized and innovative skill building training programs. entreneurship development programs(EDPs) which contribute to economic empowerment of women through self –employment.
Keywords: women empowerment, skill development, RUDSETIS, entrepreurship development, inclusive growth.
INTRODUCTION
“There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women” – Kofi Annan.
Women constitute half of total population in our country, women have significant priority in all development efforts. Allover the world women have been accepted as powerful agents of social change empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of country. In order to fill up to empowerment of women have been built for the betterment and prosperity of women, various programmers were launched by the government. voluntary agencies NGOs are activity involved in the process to improve and empower women socially, economically, and in political frontiers, the basic need for empowering women to ac quire basic skills and abilities in order to raising their status in the society. The educated women do not want to limit their lives in the four walls of the house. They demand equal respect from their partners. However, Indian women have to go a long way to achieve equal rights and position because traditions are deep in Indian society where the sociological set up has been a male dominated one. These women leaders are assertive, persuasive and willing to take risks. They managed to survive and succeed in this cut throat competition with their hard work. Diligence and perseverance. Ability to learn quickly from her abilities. Her persuasiveness, open style of problem solving. Willingness to take risks and chances. Ability to motivate people, knowing how to win and lose gracefully are the strengths of the Indian women entrepreneurs.
Concept of empowerment of women: empowerment literally means making or becoming powerful. Empowering actually means strengthening them to confirm family, community caste and traditional forces such as patriarchal forces. This inevitable confrontation ensures their full participation in every aspect of social and economic development. Empowerment is multifaceted, multi-dimensional and multi layered concept. Women empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share of control over resources material, human and intellectual like knowledge, skills, information, ideas and financial resources like money and access to money and control over decision making in the home. Community, society and nation empowerment is also the process of challenging existing power relation and gaining greater control over the sources of power. Empowerment cannot occur as a revolution but only as evolution.
Skills: skills as abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of every day life.
Need for the study
women in country like India, are just seen as someone to look after the home and bear children and thus treatment they get is below with their male counterparts. Even they get higher education without permission from the side their family they are not allowed to outside. But in view of financial constraints that a family faces, empowering them through skill-building programs will also help them to raise their voice against the ill treatment accorded to them more avenues to earn their living and become in the process self- reliant. Such programs will also outside. All these clearly indicate that there is an imperative need to find out some alternative ways as mentioned above to tackle this burning problem. Empowerment women through skills. Wih the talents inner urge, training schemes, incentives ,policies that is encouragement of women and various agencies help to them.
Review of literature:
Objectives of the study:
Scope of the study :
The present study examines the important role being played by the RUDSETI unit in INDIA contributing to women empowerment through various EDPs and encouraging them thereby to establish their own small business enterprises by taking up self employment with or without the financial assistance of banks and other financial institutions.
Methodology of the study: This study is based on the data gathered from the primary sources such as interaction with the institute and some of the alumina of the institute who established their business ventures in india. Secondary sources such as going through the monthly and annual reports, brochures of institute and information get in internet. The data collected from the institute for the period 2011-11 to 2016-17 only. On the basis of collection of data we conclude that empowering the women through their various kinds EDPs.
Limitations of the study : the study is going on only the role of RUDSETI in INDIA . empowerment of women so many institutions are there but here we studied only one institution. The data is considered only five years of the institution.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA: In India for the development of the women in different plans and programmers are lunched. to avoid discrimination of male and female to participation of women in different fields, from the fifth five year plan (1974-78) onwards there has been a marked that women issues from welfare development and the from eight five year plan emphasis was shifted from development to empowerment declaring 2001 as the year of women empowerment( swashakthi). The government of India passed the national policy for the empowerment of women which has the goal to bring the advancement, development and empowerment of women. The national mission for empowerment of women was launched by the government with the aim to strengthen overall processes that promote all round development of women. It has the mandate to strengthen the inter-sector convergence facilities the process of coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio economic development programmers across ministers and departments. One of the key strategies of NMEW is investment in skill entrepreneurship development. Microcredit, vocational training and SHG development for economic empowerment of women, the higher education is not only important some skills and training is need to be able to stand on their feet and be the earning members of the family. women have been taking increasing interest in recent years in income generating activities, self –employment and entrepreneurship that also lead to property rights, political representation, social equality, personal right, family development market development, community development and at last the national development.
About RUDSETI: RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SELF EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INSTUTITE a unique imitative mitigating the problem of employment., was taken in a small village ujire near dharmasthala in Karnataka way back in 1982 jointly by sri dhamasthala manjunatheshwara educational trust and nationalized banks which syndicate bank and canara bank under the visionary leadership of padmabhushan Dr. D. veerendraheggade. Dharmadhikari of of dharmasthala. The collectivethinking hadled to giving a shape and an institutional framework taken up in the form of RUDSETI in 1982, which was registered under Karnataka socities registration act 1960. Encouraged by the success of ujire experiment, RUDSETI has now established 27 UNITS IN 16 STATES.
Mission: to channelize youth power in wealth creation and empower youth to share economic progress equitably.
Approach of RUDSETI: The broad thematic areas that fall under skill and EDPs of RUDSETIs are both farm and non-farm sector activities. The post training follow up for sustained motivation among the trainees happens to be the cutting edge of RUDSETI’s approach. The effort to make them rise to peaks of their careers includes - two years follow-up through regular correspondence, individual contacts, unit visits, Village/ Taluk/ District/ Branch level meetings etc., and facilitating credit linkage with the banks for setting up of micro enterprises. The approach the RUDSETIs adopt in offering various self-employment or skill building training courses include important steps such as –
Types of Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDPs): RUDSETI offers around 70 types of Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDPs) in various areas. All the programs are of short duration intervention ranging from one to six weeks. Mainly they are classified into two categories as shown below.
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Types-EDPs |
Scope / Objective |
Examples |
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1 |
Agri. EDPs |
Focus: Both Agri and Allied Sectors |
Comprehensive Agri & Allied Activities, Dairy Farming, Poultry, Bee Keeping, Horticulture, Plant Nursery etc. |
|
2 |
Product EDPs |
Focus: Trained youth make a living by establishing small business enterprises. (Manufacturing |
Dress Designing (Tailoring) for Women/Men, Agarabathi making, Candle making, Pickle making, Soft Toys making, Food Processing & Bakery Products, Embroidery & Fabric Painting etc. Dress Designing; Fruit preservation & pickle making; Leaf plate making; Bag making; Agarbathi making; Phenyl preparation; Multiproduct Manufacturing for Women; Zardosi& Maggam Work; Textile Fabric & Screen Printing; Bamboo Gift Article Making |
Reasons for Success of EDPs in Promoting Wage and Self-Employment among the Women
Training Components: RUDSETI’s technical training under a chosen skill is handled by an expert practitioner in the respective field. The other important components of EDPs viz., motivational, managerial, financial planning (financial literacy) which account to 30% of the program-duration, are imparted by the in-house faculty (the deputed officer of the sponsor banks or the faculty member recruited by the RUDSETIs).
Skill Segment: Detailed curricula for all the EDP-categories mentioned above are available at all RUDSETIs. Further, they introduce innovative programmers every year to focus on programmers having demand and enlarge their course-offerings.
Soft Skills (Behavioral) Segment: Topics coming under Effective Communication skills, Self management
skills, Interpersonal skills, Team work etc., form part of this segment.
Business Management Segment: Topics covered are- What is Self-employment, Difference between Self-employment and Wage-employment, Entrepreneurial competencies, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis, Ways to get innovative business ideas, Customer Service, Selling and Marketing, Market Survey, Steps in setting up of anenterprise (flowchart), Project report preparation, ‘Whom to contact for what’ during venture launching,Management of Seven crises, Importance of Public Relations in Entrepreneurship etc.,
Financial Literacy Segment
Why to save, budget, why financial planning, understanding important banking terminology, Key points to be remembered for getting bank facilities, What is interest? How moneylenders charge very high interest rates? How to be confident while communicating etc.
Table No. 1: Trained between 2010-11 and 2015-16
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Year |
Trained |
Men |
Women |
|
2011-12 |
492 |
155 |
337 |
|
2012-13 |
533 |
243 |
290 |
|
2013-14 |
494 |
252 |
242 |
|
2014-15 |
618 |
216 |
402 |
|
2015-16 |
468 |
182 |
286 |
|
2016-17 |
764 |
344 |
420 |
Table no;2 shows settled entrepreneurs;
|
Year |
Settled (total) |
Settled (men) |
Settled Women |
Wage employed |
Self employed |
|
2011-12 |
362 |
160 |
202 |
13 |
189 |
|
2012-13 |
388 |
161 |
227 |
8 |
219 |
|
2013-14 |
400 |
160 |
240 |
8 |
232 |
|
2014-15 |
389 |
169 |
226 |
14 |
212 |
|
2015-16 |
315 |
113 |
202 |
41 |
161 |
|
2016-17 |
467 |
200 |
267 |
15 |
252 |
The findings of the study:
Recommendations
Poverty and un employment are the twin problems rural India has been facing for several secedes the peerage. Of self un employment among educated and qualified women is increasing on one hand and on the other. the opportunities. Of self- employment for rural youth especially women have also increased significantly. though entrepreneurship which not only promotes self- employment among them. But leads to their creating employment opportunities also to other rural people in their respective are as. Though creation of favorable atmosphere by the policy makers is essential for a healthy development of entrepreneurship. The women have to come forward to help them selves and their families by observing and acting on the opportunities available around ,which sets the tone for this momentum
Conclusion
Learning is a continuous process. Training a financial support adds depth to this continuous process. Entrepreneurship should become a centripetal force as well as centrifugal force in the strategy of development of any economy. It relevance is high in India, which is plagued by dismally low level of entrepreneurialism and hence a high level of mass unemployment coupled with the parasitic nature of her people to cling to a paid job. Institutional Financial Assistance in the development of entrepreneurship will go a long way in averting the socio-economic problems of India.
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