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Highlights - ICICI Academy
Over 25,000 youth were trained in fiscal 2016 with
women representation at 41%
Over 10,000 women were trained during fiscal
2016 with 4,400 at the women-only centres
Continued achievement of 100% placement of the
trained youth
(ii) Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETI)
ICICI Foundation operates RSETIs in Udaipur and Jodhpur.
It also manages 13 satellite centres across these two
districts, which impart skills in 33 diversified trades. The
institutes also facilitate livelihood opportunities for the
underprivileged youth.
Mobile repairing course at RSETI
ICICI RSETIs secured ‘AA’ grade under Category II in the
grading exercise carried out by the Ministry of Rural
Development, Government of India in July 2015.
Highlights - RSETI
Over 15,000 youth were trained in fiscal 2016; with
women representation at 50%
Around 1,000 trainees were provided with credit
facilities for starting their own enterprises
60 new women Self Help Groups were formed
Trained 427 Bank Mitras (Business Correspondents)
2. Elementary Education
(i) School and Teacher Education Reform Programme
ICICI Foundation has partnered with the Governments
of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh to implement the School
and Teacher Education Reform Programme (STERP)
aimed at improving the quality of school education in
government schools in these states. In fiscal 2016, the
programme focused on strengthening District Institutes of
Education & Training, capacity building and development
of 250 demonstration schools (150 in Rajasthan and 100
in Chhattisgarh) to make them compliant as per Right
to Education Act standards. In Rajasthan, 17 of these
schools have been selected by the state government as
model schools.
Highlights – STERP Rajasthan
Over 15,000 student teachers and 2,700 faculty
members benefited from revised course material
for the first year of Basic School Training Certificate
4,500 new and 850 drop-out students were enrolled
in Standard I to VIII via the school enrollment
campaigns organised under the Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan
20 new nodal-level Academic Resource Centres
were added taking the total number to 55
School Management Committees (SMCs) in 150
schools were made operational and 1,140 SMC
members were trained