Skilling, Labour, and Talent for MSMEs: The quantity of trainees getting into the Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programme (ESDP), amongst crucial schemes by the Modi government to market entrepreneurship in India, has noticed a jump of 378 per cent this year so far. From 3,535 programmes involving 49,548 trainees about January this year, 7,629 programmes have been organised involving 2,37,192 trainees till December 22, 2020, according to the information out there on the Development Commissioner (MSME) portal for ESDP. Moreover, the total expenditure incurred so far stood at almost Rs 27.90 crore though total income was Rs 2.91 crore.
“While the steps taken by the government are welcome but one has to look at the on-ground impact of the scheme. There doesn’t seem to be much currently. It is not about the trainees entering the programme but enterprises being set-up by them after the programme. One has to also look at further support provided to acquire land, capital, talent, etc. to launch an enterprise. Even if 40,000-50,000 are able to become entrepreneurs that will immediately have an impact on the ecosystem in India,” Vishwanath, Co-chairman, Industry Committee, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry had told TheSpuzz Online.
The scheme aimed to encourage youth such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribe guys and girls, differently-abled, and beneath poverty line men and women apart from ex-servicemen to turn out to be entrepreneurs. The government had final year in November issued suggestions on upscaled ESDP involving various activities viz, a two-day Industrial Motivational Campaign (IMC), two-week Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP), Entrepreneurship-cum-Skill Development Programme (E-SDP) for six weeks, and Management Development Programme (MDP) for a single week. The programmes have an intake capacity of 50-one hundred men and women in IMC for youth, 30-60 men and women in IMC for clusters, associations, and chambers and 25 men and women in EAP, E-SDP, and MDP every.
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“In order to help youth to become an entrepreneur, and to help them procure prerequisite skills, the government had sanctioned over Rs 135 crore under the Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programme (ESDP) for organizing various skill development programs along with state government, industry bodies, social enterprises, etc. In 2019, 3,000 such programs were conducted and sanctioned. The industry bodies and various other elements of the society have also taken the onus of partnering in the program and run their own skill development units to help achieve the goal,” Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani is President –ASSOCHAM & NAREDCO & MD, Hiranandani group wrote in an short article for TheSpuzz Online earlier this year.
Importantly, the government had in July this year eased the registration method for new entrepreneurs setting up their enterprises. It had launched a new on the net portal – Udyam registration to let compact organizations register paperless and primarily based on self-declaration. Small organizations now do not have to upload any documents or proof except the Aadhaar quantity for registration. The MSME Ministry has also organized a single-window method at Champions Control Rooms (set up at MSME Development Institutes across India) and district industries centres for facilitating the method.