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'Schemes for MSMEs Can be Revised'

SME WORLD Bureau
Sep 2010

Dr. Chukka Kondiaha, Director General, National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME), is one of the most passionate and vibrant professionals working relentlessly towards promoting entrepreneurship in the country. As a head of an institute, he has earned the rare honour of making the institute attain self-sufficiency for more then a decade now.

He has very tangible views about the state of MSMEs in the country. SME WORLD talked to him recently.

What is the emergency in the MSME sector today?

Today the urgent need in the MSME sector is to promote the first generation entrepreneurs. There are about 20 central ministries having the MSME activities, out of which there is a full-fledge ministry known as Ministry of MSME. India being the youngest country in the world has 70 per cent of its total population under the age of 35 years. We need to transform this manpower into the entrepreneurial activities.

Government is running many schemes but these are not so popular due to unawareness and non-practical in nature. How the schemes can be made more acceptable?

I totally agree with you about the complex nature of the schemes being run by the central as well as state governments. The running schemes can be revised in view of the feedback from the entrepreneurs to make it more acceptable and practical in nature. There are many entrepreneurs from the Northern part of the country who look for the support from the government. Role of the state governments is also important. Ministry of MSME is very serious about the issues. Various schemes of the ministry are being implemented by the state governments in their respective states. It is responsibility of the state governments to give the proper feedback to the ministry to enhance the acceptability of the schemes. They must be pro-active to promote the first generation entrepreneurs and unfortunately it has not been taken rightly by the state governments. There are very few states which have shown their seriousness.

The schemes may have been prepared without the feedback of the state organisations or industry associations, national training institutes, regional training institutes and entrepreneurs. But, there must be a mechanism to get feedback about a scheme once they are implemented and they must be revised from time to time according to the feedback.

In rural areas, not much has been done to instill the entrepreneurship in rural youths. What could be the possible ways?

Ministry of MSME has many schemes to promote the entrepreneurship in rural areas. In the last quarter of the 2009-10, the ministry has launched a new scheme called ‘Partnering Institutions’. This scheme is very vibrant and expected to reach even the backward and tribal areas as well. Our national level training institutions may not be able to touch the massive segment but it can be done through partnering the institutions. The mechanism of the schemes is that our National Institutes will be partnering with the state level institutions. Be it government or non-government, they must have good infrastructure and good faculty. The scheme envisages two types of programs. First is Entrepreneurship Development Programme in general for the people who know something about the business. Second is Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Program which will have the courses of one to three months duration. We are targetting to reach at least 10,000 entrepreneurs in South and Central India through these two programs.

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2 Comments >>

vital consulting

29 Nov 2011 (01:57:44)

In fact, the departments and the organisation never evalute the effectiveness of their scheme.

Arabinda Pally Bharat Kristi Seva Sangha

28 Feb 2011 (08:20:32)

Dear Sir, We are want to your all schemes of MSME.

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