Three National Awards were received during the year, namely:
National Entrepreneurship Award given by MSDE, GOI for exceptional achievement in the field of entrepreneurship development.
National Excellence Award from ALMA.
Best NGO Award in Skill Development from ASSOCHAM.
Some of the RSETIs have also received Excellence awards in specific categories and one of
the entrepreneurs received 'Swachchata Shakti' award from the Hon'ble Prime Minister.
A number of new partnerships were established by signing MOUs with organizations such
as TATA Motors, Watershed Development Department in Karnataka, Urban Livelihood
Mission in the States of Rajasthan & Odisha.
NDR shared the concept of RSETIS & the lessons learnt in RSETI Movement in the
International form, namely, 'Second Global Skill Development Meet' at Paris and '13
Asia-Pacific conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Banking' at Singapore.
A number of high profile visitors, such as from Afro-Asian and Middle-East countires,
team of IAS Officers and a world Bank Team visited RSETIS/ NACER to acquaint themselve!
with the work being done by the RSETI/NACER.