Dr. Pattabhi Memorial Institute of
Rural Development (PMIRD) is started by Andhra Bank Rural Development Trust
(ABRDT) on 10.12.2001, in the historic town of Machilipatnam where the Andhra
Bank is founded. . Out of 12 years of experience, PMIRD has good awareness, innovative mobilization
techniques, novel ways of candidate selection, administering inventive
trainings , providing essential escort services and revolutionary overall
administration of the Institute to ensure desired outcome in trainings and
settlements and also recording and documenting the efforts as envisaged by NAR
and MoRD. PMIRD during the year i.e., 2013-14 trained 932 candidates in 37 programs. The total candidates trained since
inception reached 16422 candidates with 75% settlement rate. This performance
motivates us to look forward for still greater heights in the current year and years to come.
Sponsors
Dr.PMIRD is sponsored by Andhra Bank
and Mentoring by Ministry of Rural Development .
Vision
Transformation of Rural Youth
through capacity building to enable them stand on their own feet.
Mission
Channelizing
youth power towards entrepreneurship and
livelihood development . Empowering youth to participate in economic progress.
Philosophy
The entrepreneurship
development can take place in short duration intervention if properly designed.It
does not begin from ‘Zero’ level. Generally the younger generation would have
gained some experience in their real life situations and this serves as a
launching pad for accelerated learning during training. It is therefore
possible to train the youth in a short period of 1 to 6 weeks to bringin
positive attitudinal changes resulting in increased self confidence, awareness,
understanding,knowledge, skill and higher self motivation.
The training would be
effective if it is residential. The campus approach helps the participants toimprove
their attitude, human relations and change their perceptions for the better.
The durationof the learning in this approach goes beyond the stipulated hours
without force or coercion as thetrainees are self motivated and stimulated
powerfully.
Objectives
- To identify, orient, motivate, train and assist young people to take up some self-employment ventures.
- To develop confidence in unemployed youth.
- To promote rural entrepreneurship.
- To enhance the effectiveness of poverty alleviation and self employment schemes of the Government and the Bank.
- To promote counseling and project consultancy services.
- to train village level workers to work in rural development.
- To take up research and development in rural entrepreneurship and rural development.