An Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP), of
4 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.
Programme Objective:
- To Develop and strengthen entrepreneurial quality, i.e., motivation or need for achievement
- To analyze environmental set up relating to small industry and promoting it
- Removing unemployment
- enhancing industrial development
- Developing industrially backward region
- Select project/product
- Formulate the project
- Understand the process and procedure involved in setting up small units
- Know the sources of help and support available for starting a small- scale industry
- Acquire necessary managerial skill required to run the industrial unit
- Know the pros and cons of being an entrepreneur
- Helping the person to understand environmental changes and opportunities
- Acquaint and appreciate the needed social responsibility/ entrepreneurial discipline
The programme content includes class room training on essentials of entrepreneurship
survey of the prevalent socio - economic scenario, identification of business opportunities,
role and function as well as schemes of assistance offered by various constituents of the support
system, preparation of a technically feasible and economically viable project report, Achievement
Motivation Training and also the nuances
of management of an enterprise. Sessions on technology and finance are also arranged,
depending upon the nature of project selected.