Organisation of entrepreneurship development programme on behalf of swasthya bhabna welfare society for facilitating the scope of employment among the unemployed youth

Entrepreneurship Development Programme popularly known as EDP has facilitated the scope of employment by imparting skill based training among the unemployed budding youth⁷. The main purpose of this programme is to create an opportunity among the unemployed youth so that they can get the training which have certain objectives like acceleration of the overall efforts for industrialization of the district, rural industrialization and development of rural industries and handicrafts, attainment of economic equality in various regions of the district, providing the benefit of the government schemes to the new entrepreneurs and centralization of procedures required to start a new industrial unit and minimization of the efforts and time required to obtain various permissions, licenses, registrations, subsidies etc⁸. The State Government through their Directorate provides fund to well reputed organisations for organizing different kinds of trade based and managerial skill development trainings. Apart from these, all district level offices (DICs-District Industrial centre) under this Directorate organized such type of training programmes throughout the year. Food is an essential item for human being and demands are high for quality food it is rather easy to become self employed in the field of Food Processing. There is a choice for a food product for day to day use of people living in rural and urban sector⁶. Nutrition is another aspect which is being looked into by Governments-both Central & State. So one becomes a good entrepreneur in the long run creating jobs for the unemployed¹¹. So six weeks EDP programme conducted by Swasthya Bhabna Welfare Society makes the ground work for the trainees with motivation for setting up small scale units in the district to reduce the wastage of the agricultural produce and increase the income of the farmer¹². It also generates entrepreneurs who are in turn the job seekers employable in the field of food processing. The said EDP is conducted by the efficient Faculty members with both theoretical and practical training and provided them with a very good teaching manual with their convenient session timing and all the thirty trainees were motivated by the group and personal counseling for their involvement in future self income generation schemes in relation to food processing industries.