International Journal of Development in Social Sciences and Humanities

In India, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for job as a percentage of the labour force and this is a serious issue as there is huge gap in demand for and supply of job. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), “India will again see its unemployment rate at 3.5 per cent in 2018 and 2019, the same which was seen in 2017 and 2016. According to the latest data, there will be 18.9 million jobless people in India next year a little more than 18.6 million for 2018”. Further, it is stated that the reason behind unemployment is India has a small number of quality institutions in the country in spite of the growth in the number of higher education providers and also youths are lacking aptitude and skills (indiatoday.in/education-today). Unemployment rate in India averaged around 7.32 percent from 1983 to 2013 reached an all-time high of 9.40 percent in 2009 but reduced to 4.90 percent in 2013. Again the rate shot up to a five-year high of 5 per cent in 2015-16.According to the Fifth Annual Employment-unemployment Survey at all-India level, about 77 per cent of the households had no regular wage/salaried person. In view of this, to tackle the issue of unemployment, self-employment is best alternative as wage-employment cannot be provided to all. The role played by RSETI in full form it is Rural Self Employment Training Institute has been doing praiseworthy work as youths who are willing to take up self-employment are supported by RSETI where lakhs of youth were provided with selfemployment. In this article, five cases based on study carried out in March 2019 at Aurangabad district of Maharashtra presented here. The data have been collected both from primary and secondary source