Skill, Labour, Talent for MSMEs: The National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (NI-MSME), which trains MSMEs, people, and experts for entrepreneurship improvement, capacity developing, advertising, innovation, infrastructure improvement, top quality management, and more below the Ministry of MSME, has witnessed almost 150 per cent jump in the quantity of trainees educated in the course of FY21 regardless of a lesser quantity of programmes carried out amid Covid vis-à-vis preceding monetary year. 95 coaching programmes involving 9,935 trainees have been carried out in FY21 in comparison to 154 programmes involving 3,999 trainees carried out in FY20, according to the accessible government information.
The trainees have been educated across 4 programme forms viz., the institute’s core programmes, international coaching programmes below the Ministry of External Affairs, sponsored programmes, and programmes below the Assistance to Training Institution (ATI) scheme that is intended to strengthen capacity for coaching for talent improvement, entrepreneurship, offering coaching to employees of District Industries Centres and associated government institutions dealing with MSMEs. According to NI-MSME, programmes for MSMEs are divided across 3 categories. First, advertising (which includes branding and advertising approaches, net and social media advertising, preparing and promotion, and public procurement policies second, cluster (infrastructure improvement, innovation in MSME clusters, PMEGP, implementing soft and tough interventions in clusters), and third, total top quality management for MSMEs.
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Meanwhile, below the government’s flagship talent improvement scheme for entrepreneurs – Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programme (ESDP) has educated almost 2.75 lakh trainees by means of more than 8,164 programmes so far with an expenditure of Rs 33.5 crore and income of Rs 3.18 crore, according to the information accessible with DC MSME. On the other hand, the government’s job portal for MSMEs – MSME Sampark had only 131 job postings with 936 open vacancies for a staggering 4,71,596 jobseekers, as of April 19, 2021, according to the information accessible with MSME Sampark portal. The portal focused on assisting passed out trainees and students of MSME Technology Centres and recruiters to register themselves for the suitable match. According to MSME Sampark, 18 MSME Technology Centres in India provide coaching to about 1.5 lakh students annually. Jobseekers can filter listed jobs as per their expertise which includes animation, Adobe Photoshop, CNC milling, information entry operator, welding technologies, social media advertising, footwear style, industrial robotics, thermal engineering, and so on.