ENTERPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Objective:
Such programmes having duration of 4 to 6 week (with normal intake of 30 participants) are being organised as a regular feature to cultivate the latent traits and capabilities of the youth (both men and women) by enlightening them on various aspects that are necessary and useful for setting up and managing small scale industries.

Year of launching: 1970

Methodology:
These programmes are conducted through SISIs, RTCs and SEPTI, Tiruvalla & Ettumanoor.

Mode of availing the scheme:
Application are invited through advertisement in newspapers and selection is done by interviews. The prospective/budding entrepreneurs so selected for EDP course are required to undergo full time training programme of 4-6 weeks duration.

Beginning with psychological defreezing and achievement motivation techniques knowledge is imparted to participants on the scope and potential of different items, which can be manufactured in a small scale industry, its technical feasibility, economic viability and commercial prospects as a self employment venture. Efforts are directed not only to inform but to enable them to determine and identify all these themselves. Thus they are lead towards an entrepreneurial decision of product browsing and identification. The critical areas of product/process design, manufacturing practices, testing, quality control/assurance, appropriate machinery and equipment, project profile preparation, marketing avenues/techniques, product/services pricing, export opportunities, infrasturactural facilities, finance and financial institutions, cash flow, Industrial Policy etc. are also dealt with by specialists experts. This is supplemented by visits to small scale units and hand on practices on machinery/process. This enables them to prepare their own project report for which they are helped. Project reports, are duly appraised, evaluated and corrected in consultation with the experts.