Effectiveness of Rural Skills Training Institutes in Karnataka, India

The role of Rural Skills Training Institutes (RSETIs) is significant in elevating the caliber of young entrepreneurs/new start-ups in terms of improvement in their communication skills, accounting traits, basic financial management skills, and knowledge about government facilities and imparting them with financial aids. Though many studies through light on effectiveness of these rural skills training institutes, some of the dimensions are still untouched, the present study tries to show other dimensions RSETIs. The present work has considered 10 districts of Karnatak state for its study (Viz., Uttara Kannada, Belgaum, Bijapur, Bagalkoti, Gadag, Dharwad, Haveri, Bellary, Koppal, and Raichur districts). Effectiveness of Skills training institutes is measured in terms of success rate of beneficiaries of respective RSETIs: total 500 beneficiaries were responded the survey out of which 454 were finally considered for our research work (excluding incomplete and incomplete responses). In this analytical type of research, many statistical tools including Standard deviation, karlpearson's and spearman's rank correlation, Anova tests, Post hoc tests (Turkey HSD), mean plots and descriptive statistical tools have been employed to (i) see whether the skills training institutes have an impact on income level of the beneficiaries (ii) To check is the significant variability in the perception with reference to banking services component as enabler to rural skills training in connection with the response of beneficiary (iii) To test the significant variability in the perception with reference to the effectiveness EDP training services component as enabler to rural skills training (iv) To check the effectiveness of skills training in giving economic empowerment to the beneficiary. The results were incorporated.