RSMIT Education, under the sponsorship of Ministry of Rural development (MoRD), is implementing the Special SGSY Project, aiming to train 3250 rural BPL youth in vocational skills and providing gainful employment. The Scheme focuses on uplifting Below Poverty Line (BPL) families through skill development of youths aged between 18 yrsto 35 years. RSMIT Education is working on this project in the states of Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

India’s transition to a knowledge-based economy requires a new generation of educated and skilled people. Its competitive edge will be determined by its people’s ability to create, share, and use knowledge effectively. A knowledge economy requires India to develop workers – knowledge workers and knowledge technologists - who are flexible and analytical and who can be the driving force for innovation and growth.India’s ability to deal with these changing realities is constrained as in few other places. While its population growth rate has declined over many years the labor force is still projected to grow by close to 2 percent or some 7 million or more a year over the next few years. Much of the economy and much of the population are still rooted in traditional activities and structures. Significant elements such as the cultural, social and political traditions of the country should, of course, be retained and education has a particular role to play in that.

But other aspects should change if people are to move out of poverty. Over half of the labor force is still engaged in rural activities. Although there has been a significant movement away from agriculture, this has still left most of the labor force, over 90 percent, working in the informal sector, much of it at low levels of productivity. For this majority group, access to secondary education and VET is crucial and for most of them secondary education and VET will be the last stage of their formal schooling. An effective school to work transition for these young people, made possible by higher quality secondary and tertiary education and VET, will improve their employment prospects and lifetime earnings.

The project is conceived with a view to provide training for skill development of BPL beneficiaries in employable trades that matches with their aptitude, attitude and preference in line with the efforts of the Government of India towards upliftment of socio-economic conditions of the BPL households, thereby playing a crucial role in the initiative of the Government of India towards achievement of its objective of upliftment of socio-economic conditions of the BPL households. This integrated feature of the projects makes it special for sanction under SGSY Special Projects.

RSMIT Education is dedicated to serve these young unprivileged talents of the country and imparts training in IT Sector related courses, Accounts, BPO (telecom sales) and RETAIL with special emphasis on personality development and work readiness of the selected beneficiaries.