This document summarizes various government programmes and policies in India to promote entrepreneurship. It discusses programmes run by organizations like SIDBI, NSTEDB, and their initiatives such as STEP, IEDC, EDP, OLPE, EAC, STED, FDP, and TEDP which provide funding, training, and resources to encourage entrepreneurship. It also outlines policies that aim to boost women entrepreneurship through self-help groups, loans, training programs, and addressing socio-economic barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in India. The conclusion emphasizes that the goal of these policies is to nurture entrepreneurial mindsets and assist entrepreneurs while addressing specific challenges faced by women.

1. GOVERNMENTPROGRAMMES&POLICIESFOR
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BY:-ASTHASHARMA

2. QUESTION-1 WHO IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
LET SEE

3. QUES 2:-WHAT IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
It is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur develops a business
model, acquires the human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or
failure. Entrepreneurship operates within an entrepreneurship ecosystem

4.  The role of the entrepreneur in business
 Large or small companies?
 Definition and characteristics of entrepreneur
1) ConfidenceIn Personal Abilities
2) The DesireFor Immediate Results
3) PreferenceFor A Moderate Risk
4) Willingness To Assume Responsibilities
5) High Energy
6) Flexibility
7) Organizing Skills
8) The DesireTo Achieve, above money making
9) High Level Of Commitment
10) Tolerance Of Ambiguity,
11) Vision
FUNDAMENTAL OF
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

5. ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN
INCREASING EMPLOYMENT
1)Entrepreneurship has often been cited as a key factor to improving
economic growth in developing countries
2)Entrepreneurial activities encourage the development of new enterprises.
3)There is also evidence to suggest that entrepreneurs create more
employment than non-entrepreneurs

11. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
 Various support mechanisms have been designed by the government to
nurture the entrepreneurial mindset, some of which are highlighted below:
 SIDBI was established in April 1990 under an Act of Parliament as a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) is the
principal financial institution for the following three-fold activities:
Financing the small scale sector by
providing indirect assistance to primary
lending institutions (PLIs) and direct
assistance to small scale units.
Development and support services for
promoting small industries.

12. National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Board promotes entrepreneurship development through Science
& Technology. This program has encouraged researchers and
academicians in the field of Science & Technology to take
interest in socially relevant entrepreneurial roles. Under the
flagship of NSTEB, various institutes and training programmes
have been formulated .

13.  Under the flagship of NSTEB, various institutes and
training programmes have been formulated such as:

15. Science & Technology
Entrepreneurship Park (STEP)
India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world.A new
spirit of economic freedom is now stirring in the country, bringing sweeping changes in
its wake. India’s dynamic and highly competitive private sector has long been the
backbone of its economic activity.

16. OBJECTIVES OF STEPS:
To provide R&D support to the small-scale industry
mostly through interaction with research institutions
To promote entrepreneurship among science and
technology persons, many of whom were otherwise
seeking jobs soon after their graduation
To promote innovation based enterprises

17. INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
 The mission of the IEDCs is to "develop institutional mechanism to create entrepreneurial
culture in academic institutions to foster growth of innovation and entrepreneurship
amongst the faculty and students ".

18. Objectives of the IEDCs:
1) To create Entrepreneurial
culture in the Parent Institution
and other institutions in the
region
2) To promote the objectives of
NSTEDB, including programmes
related to women and weaker
sections of the society.
To and promote employment
opportunities in the innovative
areas.

19. ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM(EDP)
 An Entrepreneurship DevelopmentProgramme (EDP), of 6-8 weeks duration, aims at
training the S&T graduates and the diploma holders in the essentials of conceiving,
planning, initiating and launching an economic activity or an enterprise successfully.

20. ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM(EDP)CONTENT INCLUDES
1) Class room training on essentials of
entrepreneurship survey
2) Identification of business opportunities,
3) Role and function as well as schemes of
assistance offered by various constituents
4) Preparation of a technically feasible and
economically viable project report

21. OPEN LEARNING PROGRAMME IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (OLPE)
 The Open Learning Programme in Entrepreneurship (OLPE) for S&T persons has been initiated with the
help of the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad, to spread the message of
entrepreneurship at a faster rate and to cover a large number of beneficiaries in a shorter time.
 This is a programme in the distance education mode, under which potential entrepreneurs are provided not
only with study material but also guidance by resource persons during the contact sessions in different parts
of the country.
 The programme facilitates learning at the pace and place of the participants. This is a roll on programme
with new recruitment once in every three months.

22. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARENESS CAMP (EAC)
 Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps (EACs) are conducted by
nodal agencies in each State/Union Territory of the country. The
implementing agency is usually either an educational institution
or a professional body specialising in entrepreneurship
development.

23. Guidelines for Conducting Entrepreneurship Awareness
Camps (EACs) in Educational Institutions
Programme Objective
 To create awareness among faculty and students of
Engineering and Science courses about various
facets of entrepreneurship as an alternative career
option as also to highlight the merits of pursuing
such an option.
Target Group
Science and Technology graduates/diploma holders or
those who are doing their final year diploma/degree
in engineering/technology/science.

24. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
(STED) PROJECT
 Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (STEDS) was
launched in 1985 when NSTEDB prepared a scheme to map the available
material resources in industrially backward regions and prepare a basket of
technically feasible and economically viable project profiles of enterprises that
could be promoted by local S & T entrepreneurs and thus tapping hitherto un-
utilised / under-utilised resources. Later the scheme was re-christened as
"Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (STEDS)".

25. OBJECTIVES OF (STED) PROJECT
To identify possible resource based
projects in the region covering both rural
and urban areas.
To organise regular enterprise awareness
programmes and skill development
programmes for creating suitable
entrepreneurial environment in the
district
To launch at least 200 micro-enterprises in the
district during the four years of duration in which
at least 50 technology-driven micro-enterprises
are to be in technology specific areas as
identified by the implementing agency earlier

26. FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (FDP)
 A Faculty Development Programme (FDP) is designed to train and develop
professionals in entrepreneurship development so that they can act as
resource persons in guiding and motivating young S&T persons to take up
entrepreneurship as a career.
 The FDPs provide inputs on process and practice of entrepreneurship
development, communication and inter-personal skills, creativity, problem
solving, achievement motivation training, inputs on resource and knowledge
industries

28. Guidelines for Conducting Faculty
Development Programme (FDP)
Programme Objective
 Faculty Development Programme (FDP) aims at equipping teachers
with skills and knowledge that are essential for inculcating
entrepreneurial values in students and guiding and monitoring their
progress towards entrepreneurial career.
Who can conduct?
 Institutes / organisation engaged in entrepreneurship training having
vast experience in the field of entrepreneurship development. The
organisation should have in-house training experts for conducting
FDPs.
Target Group
Teachers of Science & Technology Colleges/Institutions, persons from
the organisation engaged in entrepreneurship development

29. TECHNOLOGY BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME (TEDP)
Programme Objective
In a TEDP :-
1. The entrepreneurs are exposed to technical knowledge about the
products and technologies and are enabled to develop their skills at the lab
of the technology provider.
2. The R&D lab having commercially viable technologies, get potential
entrepreneurs as its "takers"; and
3. The entrepreneurship-training institute can put concerted efforts in a
specific discipline of product-technology and thus can have better control
over the course of the programme and its success.

30. examples
Leather
,
Plastic, Electro
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Commu
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Fragran
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Flavour
,
Instrum
entatio
n,
Bio-
technol
ogy,
IT
Comput
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Hardwa
re,
Food
Proces
sing,
Bio-
medical
Equipm
ent,
Glass &
Cerami
cs,
Medical
Plants
Proces
sing,
etc.
A Technology Based EDP primarily focuses on training and
development need of S&T entrepreneurs in a specific
technology area

31. WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
 Women entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human
Resource development.
 The development of women entrepreneurship is very low in India,
especially in the rural areas.

32. CATEGORIES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN
PRACTICE IN INDIA
First
Category
Established in big
cities
Nontraditional Items
Having higher level
technical & professional
qualifications
Second
Category
Established in cities
and towns
Having sufficient
education
Undertaking women
services-
kindergarten, beauty
parlors, health
Third Category
Illiterate women
Financially week
• Involved in family business such as
Agriculture, Horticulture

33. POLICY FRAMEWORK SUPPORTING
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA
 CREATINGAN ENVIRONMENT THROUGH POSITIVE ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL POLICIES OR FULL DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN TO ENABLE
THEM TO REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL
 CHANGING SOCIETAL ATTITUDE AND COMMUNITY PRACTICES BY
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT OF BOTH MEN AND
WOMEN;
 MAINSTREAMING A GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS;
 ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN AND THE GIRL CHILD; AND
 BUILDING AND STENGHTENING PARTNERSHIP WITH CIVIL
SOCIETY,PARTICULARLY WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS.


34. SWA-SHAKTI PROJECT
THE TASKS INVOLVED INCLUDE :
 IDENTIFICATION OF RURAL WOMEN BENEFICIARIES,PARTICULARLY
THOSE ENGAGED IN “ON-FARM” ACTIVITIES;
 THEIR ORGANIZATION INTO SMALL,HOMOGENEOUS GROUPS;
 THEIR AWARENESS GENERATION AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING;
 THEIR TRANING IN GROUP DYNAMICS; AND
 THEIR FUNCTIONAL AND LEGAL LITERACY.

36. INDIRA MAHILA YOJNA (IMY) :
IT IS PERMISED ON RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT
EMPOWERMENT IS A MULTIFACETED PROCESS. IT SEEKS TO
ACHIEVE THIS BY THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES:
 TO GENERATE AWARENESS AMONG WOMEN BY DISSEMINATING
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE,SO AS TO BRING ABOUT AN
ATTITUDINAL CHANGE;
 TO HELP WOMEN ACHIEVE ECONOMIC STRENGTH THROUGH MICRO-
LEVEL INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES;AND
 TO ESTABLISH COVERGENCE OF VARIOUS SERVICES SUCH AS
LITERACY,HEALTH,NON-FORMAL EDUCATION,RURAL
DEVELOPMENT,WATER SUPPLY,ENTREPRENEURSHIP

38. RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK)
IS MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE :
 TO PROVIDE OR PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF MICRO – CREDIT TO POOR WOMEN FOR
INCOME GENERATION ACTIVITIES OR DOR ASSET CREATION.
 TO USE THE GROUP CONCEPT AND THE PROVISION OF CREDIT AS AN INSTRUEMENT OF
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT, SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT.
 TO RECEIVE GRANTS,DONATIONS,LOANS,ETC.,FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES OF THE KOSH.

39. THE FEDRATION OF INDIAN WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS (FIWE) :
THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE FIWE ARE AS FOLLOWS:
 PROVIDE TRAINING FACILITIES IN EXPORT MARKETING AND
MANAGEMENT,DOMESTIC MARKETING,
 QUALITY CONTROL AND STANDARDLIZATION,MANAGEMENT OF
ENTERPRISES,LAWS,REGULATIONS,PROCEDURES AND SYSTEM FOR
RUNNING A SAMLL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE AND SUSTAINING
IT’S GROWTH, ETC.
 TO BRING OUT A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER TO EDUCATE AND INFORM
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ON BUSINESS OPPURTUNITIES,
MANAGEMENT AND EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE.
 TO ENHANCE ACESS TO TERM LOAN AND WORKING CAPITAL.
 ASSISTING IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF INVESTMENT OPPURTUNITIES

40. WOMEN WORK PARTICIPATION INDIA PERCENTAGE
0
10
20
30
40
1970-1971
1980-1981
1990-1991
2010-2011
Series 1

41. TOTAL PERCENTAGE OF REGISTERED WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40

42. CONCLUSION
 India’s tryst with entrepreneurship is an emerging
phenomenon when compared to its 65 years of existence as
an independent nation
 Various support mechanisms have been designed by the
government to nurture the entrepreneurial mindset, some of
which are highlighted the objective of all the policies and
programs is multifold, superficially they are meant to assist
and cater to the needs of entrepreneurs.
 Also, throught the world, women make a vital contribution to
industrial output.their work not only sustain their families,but
also makes a major contribution to socio-economic progress.
 A strategy needs to be in congruence with field realities, and
should especially take cognizance of the problems women
entrepreneurs face within the current system.