2. Training and Entrepreneurship
Development Programme in India
IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING
METHODS OF TRAINING
EDP- NEED AND IMPORTANCE
PHASES OF EDP
SELECTION OF ENTREPRENEURS FOR EDP
TRAINING PROGRAMME – COURSE CONTENTS
PRE REQUISITES OF EDP
ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING EDP
3. Importance of Training
Ensures availability of skilled manpower at all management levels
Enhancing abilities, potential among entrepreneurs
Increase efficiency
Maintain and enhance product quality
Minimise wastages in production process
Minimise accidents on the job
Reduce fatigue and increase speed of work
Standardisation in industry and internal processes
4. Methods of Training
Individual instruction
Group instruction
Lecture method
Demonstration method
Written instruction method
Conference
Meetings
5. EDP
Designed with an aim of encouraging self employment
Imparts training and motivates potential and existing
entrepreneurs to start new business or diversify and expand
the existing one
Helps employment and wealth creation among educated
unemployed youth
Well equipped to face risks and challenges as an entrepreneur
Government needs considerable human and material
resource, importance to detailed planning & implementation
6. Phases of EDP
Select area from existing government policy
guidelines/socio-economic reports
Techno-economic survey of the selected area; feasibility
study
Identify potential and existing entrepreneurs interested
in starting new business/expansion/diversification
Training
Follow up and consultancy services
7. EDP Cycle
Stimulatory Role
1. Registration of unit
2. Arranging finance
3. Prov iding land, shed, power, water etc.
4. Guidance for selecting and obtaining machinery
5. Supply of scarce raw materials.
6. Getting licences / import licences
7. Providing common facilities
8. Granting tax relief or other subsidy
9. Offering management consultancy
10. Help marketing product
8. Support Role
1. Entrepreneurial education.
2. Planned publicity for entrepreneurial opportun ities.
3. Identification of potential entrepreneurs through scientific methods.
4. Motivational training to new entrepreneurs.
5. Help and guide in selecting products and preparing project reports.
6. Making available techno-economic information and product profits.
7. Evolving locally suitable new products and processes.
8. Availability of local agencies with trained personnel for entrepreneurial
counselling and
promotions.
9. Organising entrepreneurial forum.
9. Sustaining Role
1. Help modernization
2. Help diversification/expansion / substitute production.
3. Additional financing for full capacity utilization
4. Deferring repayment/interest.
5. Diagnostic industrial extension/consultancy source.
6. Production units/ legislation/policy change
7. Product reservation / creating new avenues for marketing
8. Quality testing and improving services
9. Need - based common facilities centre
10. Selection of entrepreneurs for EDP
The programme is well publicised and promoted to attract
maximum applications for screening
Selection of top 25 to 30 applicants only
Applications screened for:
Demographics and socio cultural data – age, education, work
exp, financial resources, type of business etc
Motivation factors – pull factors, source of
encouragement, credibility, endurance, concreteness of plans
Psychological test results- traits like risk taking, need for achievement
11. Training – Course contents
Introduction to entrepreneurship
Motivation training
Essentials of management
Fundamentals of project feasibility study
Organising the business
Plant visit
12. Pre requisites of EDP
Selection of entrepreneurs
Inputs for EDP
Support system
Follow up
14. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(EDII)
Develops programmes for entrepreneurial training and
development
Develops innovative training techniques for trainers
Focused attention on women entrepreneurs with first such
EDP in 1988
EDP for rural entrepreneurship development in U.P and
Orissa
Famous for organising camps on entrepreneurship
Condusted EDP in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Ghana, Kenya etc
15. National Institute for entrepreneurship and
Small Business Development (NIESBUD)
Established by Government of India in 1983
An apex body for coordination and supervision on activities of
various institutes engaged in entrepreneurial development
Helps evolution of EDP, model syllabi, effective training
strategies, methodology, manuals and tools
Activities undertaken:
Organise and conduct training programmes
Coordinate training activities of various agencies/institutes
Provide affiliation to such institutes
Hold examinations and confer certificates to trainers and trainees
16. Small Industries Service Institutes (SISI)
Three months part time evening courses in management
4-6 weeks part time courses in intensive training in functional
areas (marketing, finance)
Special courses in quality control, HR, production
planning, product development etc
Mobile workshops imparting training on correct usage of tools
and equipment
Helps with preparation of plant layouts
Helps individual firms on specific problems faced
17. Micro,Small &Medium Enterprises Development
Commission (MSME DC)
Runs EDP in collaboration with financial
institutes, directorate of industries
Gives on the job training on shop floor
(carpentry, electrical devices)
Sends its officials/trainers to organisations to update
their knowledge
18. National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC)
Provides apprenticeship for 2 years
Training supervisory staff of SSI up to 2 years
Training to engineers up to 2 years
Training workmen for 12 months
Training to set up own venture
Advice on machinery and components
Production of technologically advanced machines
19. National Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs
(NAYE)
Contribution in encouraging women entrepreneurship
Set up women’s wing in 1975
This wing assists women in:
Getting better access to resources, infrastructure, markets
Identify investment opportunities
Attending to problems of individual industries
Sponsor participation in trade fairs, exhibitions, conferences
Organise seminars, training programmes, workshops
