RAS question
The Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) focuses on:
Correct answer: (B) Skill training and employment generation for youth.
Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation focuses on skill training and employment generation for youth in Rajasthan.
Explanation
RSLDC is Rajasthan's nodal agency for skill development and livelihood promotion. The Economic Review records that the Rajasthan Mission on Livelihood was transformed into RSLDC in May 2012 and that RSLDC facilitated skill training across the State through training partners. Its work is tied to employability: DDU-GKY aims to skill impoverished rural youth and prepare them for regular-wage employment, while the Employment Linked Skill Training Programme has been restructured as Rojgar Aadharit Jan Kaushal Vikas Karyakram to provide employment-oriented skill training in sectors linked to market demand. The source also states that RSLDC serves as the nodal agency for convergence of skill-development initiatives across departments, confirming that the Corporation's core role is youth skill training and employment generation, not sectoral administration such as housing, agriculture or tourism promotion.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Building government housing is outside RSLDC's stated skill-development and livelihood-promotion mandate.
- (C) Agricultural subsidy distribution is not the function described for RSLDC, whose programmes focus on training, employability and livelihoods.
- (D) Tourism promotion is a separate sectoral function; RSLDC is mentioned only as supporting skill training for tourism and hospitality, not promoting tourism itself.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan economy schemes and institutional roles, especially the difference between a nodal skill-development agency and sector departments. It recurs in RAS because scheme questions often ask candidates to match agencies with their precise mandate.