Skill Development

Promoting an entrepreneurial culture among the rural youth and encouraging them to start enterprises in the rural off-farm sector had been among the thrust areas in NABARD’s promotional initiatives over a period of more than three decades. Recognising the need for imparting necessary entrepreneurial skills to the rural youth, NABARD has so far extended support for training 9.04 Lakh rural youth through 34,878 programmes with grant assistance of ₹154.37 crore by gainfully engaging rural youth both in wage as well as self-employment.