Entrepreneurship development and the role of NGO's: An assessment

Nowadays the term NGOs has become generic and has been used loosely to represent all institutions other than government departments. In terms of sect oral paradigm the Public (Government), Private (business/profit-oriented firms) and Voluntary (Cooperatives, Voluntary Associations, Non-Profit Organizations, NGOs) sectors are known as first, second and third sector: The third sector organization do not fit in the label Private’ or ‘Public’. The entrepreneurship Development is national movement in India. In the initial years governmental agencies were established to cater the needs of the elite for development of individual sector. When several anti poverty programmes clothed with entrepreneurial inputs were introduced in the eighties, at the national level, the governmental agencies started co-opting and collaborating with the NGO's. Since then, several NGO's are engaged in entrepreneurship development among the lesser-known segment of the society. The RUDSETIs are one among them. The appreciation and evaluation of such endeavors is weaknesses. In this direction the application of the above model to RUDSETIs helped to reflect their standing as an institution committed to this cause. Therefore this paper assesses entrepreneurship development and the role of NGO's.