This document discusses training and entrepreneurship development programs in India. It outlines the importance of training for skills development and quality improvement. It describes various training methods like individual instruction and lectures. It explains the need for Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDPs) to encourage self-employment and address unemployment. EDPs involve selecting entrepreneurs, providing training, and offering follow-up support. Major organizations that offer EDPs in India include NIESBUD, SISI, SIDO, NSIC, EDII, and NAYE.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Methods of Training
• Individual instruction
• Group instruction
• Lecture method
• Demonstration method
• Written instruction method
• Conference
• Meetings

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Training – Course contents
• Introduction to entrepreneurship
• Motivation training
• Essentials of management
• Fundamentals of project feasibility study
• Organising the business
• Plant visit

8. Pre requisites of EDP
• Selection of entrepreneurs
• Inputs for EDP
• Support system
• Follow up

9. Organisations providing EDP

10. 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:
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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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

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 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