Rural Development Ministry Signs MoU With RUDSETI Academy

The correct answer is 6.35 lakh. This is the training target given to the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes for the current year, and it is larger than the target that had been fixed for the previous year, 2025-26. The target is not meant for rural youth in general alone: it specifically takes in women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, which is why the agreement with the National Academy of RUDSETI stresses uniform standards and quality administration across the institutes. Options A, B and D give figures that were not set as the target for the year. Aspirants should hold the number together with the date of the agreement, 12 October 2026, and with the ministry that owns the institutes, the Ministry of Rural Development.

The correct answer is the National Academy of RUDSETI, written in short as NAR. The agreement signed on 12 October 2026 covers uniform training standards, quality administration and systematic capacity building at the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes, and extends to the settlement of trained candidates, their credit linkage and the monitoring of both. The document was exchanged between the Joint Secretary for Rural Skills in the Department of Rural Development and the Director General of the academy. Options A, C and D name bodies that were not party to this agreement. The institutes will now register candidates through Kaushal Panjee, verify attendance by Aadhaar-based face authentication under AEBAS, run courses aligned to the National Skills Qualifications Framework, and certify trainees and trainers through the ministry’s Unified Portal while following the notified Common Norms.

The correct answer is Kaushal Panjee. A key aim of the partnership is better candidate registration through this platform, together with Aadhaar-based face authentication under the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System, so that enrolment and attendance at the institutes are both verifiable. Alongside this digital layer, the agreement brings in new-age courses aligned to the National Skills Qualifications Framework, training aids and equipment benchmarked against industry, and the core Entrepreneurship Development Programme courses notified by the Ministry of Rural Development. Training of Trainers is to be strengthened, and both trainees and trainers are to be assessed and certified through the ministry’s Unified Portal in line with the notified Common Norms. Options B, C and D name platforms that do not figure in this arrangement for registering rural candidates.