This presentation throws light on the rural entrepreneurship and rural development. Also, it talks about how rural development has progressed so far in the context of India.

1. RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND
RURAL DEVELOPMENT &
GROWTH OF RURAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA
Shobhit Srivastava
Naela Khan
Anshuman Yadav
Semester III (MBA – M52)
MONIRBA, University of Allahabad

2. Rural Entrepreneurship
Rural Entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurship
which ensures value addition to rural resources
in rural areas engaging largely rural human
resources.

3. Rural Entrepreneurship
Development Program (REDP)
 Supported By NABARD.
 It creates :
 Sustainable employment
 Income opportunities
 For the benefits of Unemployed rural youth.

4. Objective of Rural
Entrepreneurship Development
Programme
 It aims to develop entrepreneurial and activity-
oriented skills.
 NGOs involved in the conducting of
Entrepreneurship Development Programs.
 It supports entrepreneurs through various
agencies and NGOs.

5. Phases of REDP
 Pre-training Phase
 Training Phase
 Post-training Phase

6. Highlights of the Training Program
conducted under the REDP
 REDPs are conducted for a certain skill and
unemployed rural youth are trained in these programs.
 The trainee has to be in the age limit of 18 and 50
years.
 Training period could differ from a minimum period of
4 weeks to a maximum period of eight weeks.
 Each program would support about 25-30 participants.
 Programs are held with the support of NGOs and the
NGOs must be a registered and with a minimum
experience of 3 years.
 Programs could be residential or non-residential.
 The NGO must have essential infrastructure, faculty
support of their own or invite guest faculty.

7. Grant provided under the
Program
 Preliminary expenses
 Rent for hall
 Training material
 Boarding charges
 Stationery
 Honorarium to faculty or guest faculty
 The other expenses

8. Types of Rural Entrepreneurship
Development Programme
 Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
 National Program for Rural Industrialization
(NPRI)
 Micro and Small Enterprises – Cluster
Development Program (MSE – CDP)

9. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar
Yojana
 The scheme was launched on April 1, 1999.
 It aims at providing self-employment to
villagers through the establishment of self-help
groups.

10. National Program for Rural
Industrialization (NPRI)
 Announced by the Finance Minister in his
Budget Speech for 1999-2000.
 Creates :
 Rural Industrial Estates
 Artisan Clusters
 Aiming to institute 100 rural clusters in each
year.

11. Micro and Small Enterprises –
Cluster Development Program
(MSE – CDP)
 For enhancing the productivity and
competitiveness and capacity building of Micro
and Small Enterprises (MSEs) and their
collectives in the country.
 Clustering of units enables providers of
different services to them.
 Including banks and credit agencies, to enable
their services more cost-effectively

12. Growth of Rural Entrepreneurship
in INDIA
 On the run, government of India has taken
initiative for rural socio-economic development
by creating employment opportunities through
various sponsored schemes for appraisal of
rural entrepreneurship across the country.
Some of these include:

13. Growth of Rural Entrepreneurship
in INDIA continued…
 A RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP is the top
most agenda on the policies of government
officials like
 Sound national policy with respect to
agriculture entrepreneurial thinking about rural
development not only by farmers but also by
everyone and every development organization

14. Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP)
 Rural development program launched in year
1978.
 Self employment program intended to raise the
income generation capacity of target groups
among the poor.
 The main objective of IRDP is to raise families
of identified target group below poverty line by
creation of sustainable opportunities for self-
employment in the rural sector.

15. Jawahar Rojgar Yojana (JRY)
 Jawahar Rojgar Yojna was launched on April
1, 1989 by merging National Rural
Employment Program (NREP) and Rural
Landless Employment Guarantee Programme
(RLEGP), at the end of Seventh Five Year
Plan
 Objective of providing 90-100 Days
Employment per person particularly in
backward districts. People below Poverty Line
were main targets.

16. Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar
Yojana (SGRY)
 SGRY was a scheme launched by the
government of India to attain the objective of
providing gainful employment for the rural
people
 The program is self targeting in nature and
aims to provide employment and food to
people in rural areas who lived below the
poverty line

17. Many more such schemes are
initiated by Government of INDIA
 National Rural Employment Guarantee
Programme (NREGA),
 National Rural Employment Programme
(NREP),
 Rural Landless Employment Guarantee
Programme (NLEGP)
 Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment
(TRYSEM) etc.

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