Leather Training Scheme - Rajasthan(LTSR)

Overview

About LTSR

A batch under this scheme takes 15 trainees for Nagara Jooti and 20 for leather goods, and the Industries Department put a budget provision of Rs 15 lakh behind the whole scheme in 2023-24, as its own scheme record shows. Those figures cap the scheme far more tightly than its eligibility rules do. What sits behind them is a district-level trade course with a stipend attached, applied for on a sheet of plain paper.

The Department of Industries, Government of Rajasthan started the Leather Training Scheme in 1990 to lift the output and quality of the state's leather artisans, get new designs made, and push trained hands into self-employment. Delivery runs through the District Industries and Commerce Centres, and a course lasts two months, per the department's record.

The trade list has narrowed since the scheme was written, and the batch sizes have not. The original Charm Prashikshan Yojana guidelines run four crafts across two batches, pairing leather dyeing with Nagara Jooti in the batch of 15 and leather goods with leather toys in the batch of 20; the department's current record keeps those same two batch sizes but names only Nagara Jooti and leather goods against them. So a prospective trainee should ask the district centre which craft the next batch is actually for, rather than assuming leather dyeing or toy making is still on offer.

The scheme is also not everywhere in Rajasthan. The department's record names the districts it runs in: Banswara, Barmer, Bhilwara, Bundi, Chittorgarh, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Jhalawar, Pali, Sikar, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk, Baran, Dausa, Pratapgarh and Jaipur (Rural), in the same record. Applicants elsewhere can still walk into their own centre and ask, but the department is not publishing the scheme against those districts.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme has no annual application window and no advertised last date. The department records it as running continuously since 1990 with no closing date published, in its scheme record, which means batches form at district level whenever enough applicants have come forward. Timing is a district question, not a state calendar.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Caste category decides nothing here. The scheme admits Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class and General applicants alike, as the guidelines set the beneficiary class, so the filters that actually bite are age and literacy.

Age is the hard one: 18 to 35 years. The Selection Committee holds a power to relax that by up to 10 years, which is a discretion it may use case by case and not a right an older applicant can claim, again per the record. Anyone past the upper limit is better off asking the district centre whether the committee has ever used that power there, before spending a week collecting papers.

Literacy is the education floor, and passing class 8 or going further earns preference rather than a reserved place, as the guidelines put it. Neither the guidelines nor the department's record states any income ceiling, which is unusual for a state welfare scheme and worth knowing before an applicant goes hunting for an income certificate.

One condition that scheme listings attach to this scheme is not in the department's own text. Being a native of Rajasthan is absent from the guidelines and from the record, and the paper the department marks mandatory is an address proof, not a domicile certificate. Ask the district centre what it will accept as proof of address rather than paying for a domicile certificate on the strength of a listing.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

No disqualification list is published for this scheme. The 1990 guidelines run to six short headings and none of them bars anybody, and the department's current record adds no bar of its own, so what actually excludes an applicant is falling outside the age band, being unable to read and write, or the batch filling up before you reach it. In practice a fourth thing does the same work: living where no batch is being formed.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing about this scheme renews. It is a single two-month course with a fixed stipend period, and the guidelines describe no second term, no continuing payment after the batch ends and no repeat entitlement for a trainee who has already been through one, as published.

What you get

Award & benefits

The money is modest and the tool kit is the part worth planning around. Trainees are paid a stipend during the course, and separately receive a kit after they finish, which the guidelines tie to setting up their own work rather than to the training itself. The department's record marks the scheme as carrying no service fee, in its own entry, so nothing is payable to apply.

Read the tool kit line carefully. It is a ceiling, not a payment, and it arrives as tools rather than cash, so what a trainee ends up with depends on what the district centre procures.

• Skill Development Training
• Modern technical training in Nagara Jooti (15 trainees per batch).
• Leather goods training (20 trainees per batch).
• Each trainee receives ₹500/- per month during the training period.
• Tool kits worth up to ₹1,000/- are provided to each trainee after successful completion of the training.

What to prepare

Documents required

The department's own document list is not the same as the one aggregators reproduce, and it is the one the district centre works from. It marks five items mandatory and two optional, in the scheme record.

Two things about that list are worth reading twice. A caste certificate copy is mandatory even though every category is eligible, so it is being collected as a record rather than used as a filter, and a General-category applicant should ask the centre what stands in for it. And because the application itself is handwritten rather than a printed form, carry the originals along with the copies: there is no upload step where a scan can be corrected later.

Step by step

How to apply

Write your full particulars on plain paper and hand it to the General Manager of your District Industries Centre. That instruction is the whole application process as the scheme guidelines state it, and the department's record confirms the mode of applying as offline, lists the Joint Commissioner as the designated officer for receiving applications, and publishes no application URL and no service fee, in the record.

That has a consequence people miss when they go looking for a tracking page. Nothing is filed online, so no application number is generated and no portal carries a status for it. Following up means going back to the district centre that took the paper and asking two things: which batch the application has been placed against, and when that batch is expected to start. Keep a copy of what you handed in, since the office keeps the original.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Selection sits with a Selection Committee, and the only power of that committee written into the guidelines is the age relaxation, as published. Preference for applicants who have passed class 8 or studied further is the sole ranking rule stated anywhere.

There is no entrance test, no merit list and no marking scheme for this scheme. In practice the batch size does the selecting, since a district centre has only 15 places for a Nagara Jooti course and 20 for leather goods, per the record.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Both benefits are conditional, and on different things. The stipend is paid only while the course runs, and the tool kit turns on completing the course rather than on being selected for it, as the department publishes it. The record puts a delivery time of 60 days against the scheme and, in the same entry, marks it as not listed under the Rajasthan Guaranteed Delivery of Public Services Act. Those two facts belong together: 60 days is the department's own stated turnaround, not a statutory deadline an applicant can enforce, and the record names no first or second appellate authority behind it.

Get help

Contact

The District Industries and Commerce Centre in your own district is the working address for everything: the application, the documents, the batch date and any follow-up. At state level the scheme sits with the Commissioner, Industries, Commerce and CSR in Jaipur, and the department's record names a Deputy Director in the Industries Department as its nodal officer, with indrajfo9@rajasthan.gov.in as the published email, in the scheme record. That entry was last revised in March 2024, so the designation is the durable part of it; ask for the Deputy Director holding the leather training file rather than for whoever the record happens to name.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.

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