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
 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

 Methods of Training

• Individual instruction

• Group instruction

• Lecture method

• Demonstration method

• Written instruction method

• Conference

• Meetings
 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
 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

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
 Training – Course contents

• Introduction to entrepreneurship

• Motivation training

• Essentials of management

• Fundamentals of project feasibility study

• Organising the business

• Plant visit
 Pre requisites of EDP

• Selection of entrepreneurs

• Inputs for EDP

• Support system

• Follow up
Organisations providing EDP
 National Institute for entrepreneurship and
Small Business Development (NIESBUD)
• Established by Government of India in 1983

• An apex body for coordination and supervison 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
 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

 Small Industries Development
Organisation (SIDO)

• 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
 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

 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

 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