For the economic development, entrepreneurial development is necessary. For the purpose of entrepreneurial development, rapid growth of small scale sector is necessary. Entrepreneurial development programmes are designed to help a person in strengthening his entrepreneurial motive and in acquiring skills and capabilities necessary for playing his role effectively.
Main objective of the entrepreneurial development programme is to motivate and assist prospective and potential entrepreneurs to set up small scale units of their own and thus become self-employed and contribute significantly to production and employment in the country.
Entrepreneurial development programme must be designed properly and should incorporate the following:
(i) Developing, achievement, motivation and sharpening entrepreneurial traits and behaviour.
(ii) Project planning and development, and guidance on industrial opportunities, incentives and facilities, rules and regulations.
(iii) Developing managerial and operational capabilities.
Keeping the target group and target area in view various strategies and approaches are adopted. The process of entrepreneurial development is designed very carefully and starts from identifying the potential and right candidates, linking suitable project with each one, and then training and developing the managerial and entrepreneurial capabilities, counseling and motivating them, and then providing the required follow-up support to help them in establishing their venture.
Objectives of entrepreneurial development programme are to help to:
(i) Develop and strengthen their entrepreneurial quality.
(ii) Analyse environment related to small business and small industry.
(iii) Select product and its project.
(iv) Formulate projects.
(v) Understand the procedure for setting up of small enterprise.
(vi) Support needed for launching the enterprise.
(vii) Acquire basic management skills.
(viii) Appreciate the social responsibilities.
(ix) Let him set the objectives of his business.
(x) Prepare him to accept risks.
(xi) Take strategic decisions.
(xii) Develop communicating skills.
Proper training is essential for the success of any industry in production techniques, management, marketing and other aspects.
Small Industries Service Institutes and their Extension Centres are organising trainings:
(i) To improve technical skills of workers,
(ii) For acquainting the entrepreneurs with advanced production and management techniques.
The courses for workers are organised in the following areas:
(a) Shop practice courses such as machine shop practice, tool room practice, foundry, blacksmithy, electrical shop practice etc.
(b) Trade oriented courses, such as tool making, fitter, sheet metal, pattern making, carpentry etc.
(c) Process oriented courses, such as welding, heat treatment, electroplating, leather works etc.
(d) Product oriented courses, sport goods, foot wear, paint, varnish making etc.
Training programmes for entrepreneurs are of two types namely:
(i) For graduate and diploma holder engineers, physics and chemistry graduates and
(ii) For rural artisans, educated unemployed, ex-servicemen, weaker sections of the society, women entrepreneurs etc. with special courses for each of the categories of persons.
For providing training and upgradation of technology and managerial skills, specialised institutions have been set up.
For conducting entrepreneurship development programmes, the lead was given by Small Industries Development Organisation through its small industries service centres. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) was established in 1983 at Ahmedabad as a resource organisation at the national level for the purpose of creating the institutional infrastructure for entrepreneurship development.
National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIES BHD) was established by the central Government at New Delhi, with the objective of coordinating activities related to entrepreneurship and small business development.
In addition, institutions established by the Government are:
(i) Rural Entrepreneurship Development Institute (RED) at Ranchi.
(ii) Rural Management and Management Centres (RMEDC) at Maharashtra.
Other organisational actively conducting entrepreneurship development programmes are:
(i) State Bank of India
(ii) IDBI.
(iii) Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at Ahmedabad and Hubli.
(iv) State financial corporations.
(v) Industrial consultancy organisations in various states.
(vi) Small Industries Extension Training Institute, Hyderabad.
(vii) Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IEDs) in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa.
(viii) Management Development Institute (MDI) at Gurgaon (Haryana) near Delhi.
Some of the other institutions for entrepreneurial development are:
1. Central Institute of Tool Design, Hyderabad.
2. Central Tool Room and Training Centre, Calcutta.
3. NI SIET, Guwahati.
4. Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments, Bombay.
5. Electronic Service and Training Centre, Ramnagar.
6. Process-cum-Product Development Centre for Glass and Ceramic Industry, Ranchi.
7. Process and Product Development Centre, Agra.
8. Process and Product Development Centre, Meerut.
9. Central Institute of Hand Tools, Jalandhar.
10. Hand Tool Design Development and Training Centre, Nagpur.
11. New Indo-Danish Tool Rooms, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneswar.
12. Ino-German Tool Rooms-Indore, Ahmedabad and Aurangabad.
13. National Institute for Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development, New Delhi.
14. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
15. Centre for the Improvement of Glass Industry, Firozabad.
16. National Council for Cement and Building Materials, Delhi, Ballabgarh, Hyderabad, Patna and Madras.
17. Indian Plywood Industries Research Institute, Bangalore.
18. Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Saharanpur.
19. National Federation of Industrial Cooperatives Limited, New Delhi.
20. Central Machine Tool Institute, Bangalore.
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