Lok Sabha Question No. 1742 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-13
Subject: Collaboration with Private Industries
Ministry: SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Asked by: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1742

ANSWERED ON 13.02.2023

## Collaboration with Private Industries

1742.  DR. RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK':

Will the Minister of SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP be pleased to state:

- (a) the  special  steps  taken  by  the  Government  for  entrepreneurship  development  in  the country during the last five years;
- (b) the amount of the funds spent by the Government on the development schemes and the employment opportunities generated by the said schemes;
- (c) whether the Government is working on any scheme of entrepreneurship development in collaboration with private industries; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  SKILL  DEVELOPMENT  AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a) The  Ministry  of  Skill  Development  and  Entrepreneurship  (MSDE)  has  taken  various initiatives  to  promote  and  support  entrepreneurship  development  through  its  autonomous institutions,namely,National  Institute  for  Entrepreneurship  and  Small  Business  Development (NIESBUD),Noida and Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati across the country.

The details of the various initiatives/programmes undertaken by MSDE for Entrepreneurship development are given below:

- (i) Pilot project on Entrepreneurship Development in Holy Cities: Entrepreneurship Development in Holy Citiesis a project of the MSDE implemented by NIESBUD and IIE which aims to catalyze local entrepreneurial activities through involvement of potential and existing entrepreneurs, unemployed youth, college dropouts, youth from backward communities etc. The  project  is  being  implemented  in  Bodh  Gaya,  Kollur,  Haridwar,  Puri,  Pandharpurand Varanasi.
- (ii) Organizing  Workshops  in  Artisan  Melas  and  Haats :  MSDE  is  implementing  a project  through  NIESBUD,  Noida  to  undertake  the  initiative  for  organising  workshops  for capacity  building  and  providing  entrepreneurial  knowledge  to  the  artisans  during  the  Melas and  Haats  with  a  view  to  value  addition  in  the  existing  products  of  participants,  creating financial  and  market  linkages  and  linking  their  products  with  e-commerceplatforms  and making their businesses compliant to Government regulations.
- (iii) Creating Entrepreneurial Climate through Training of Trainers and Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS): MSDE is implementing a project through NIESBUD, Noida for Creating Entrepreneurial Climate through Training  of  Trainers  and  Entrepreneurship  Development  Programme  in  Jan  Shikshan Sansthan  (JSS).  The  project  aims  at creating, fostering and  promoting  the spirit of entrepreneurship  among  the  various  target  groups  through  Capacity  Building,  Incubation Support, Mentoring and Handholding.
- (iv) PM  YUVA  Pilot Project: MSDE  implemented PM-YUVA  Pilot Project (from November,  2019  to March, 2022) towards creating an enabling ecosystem through entrepreneurship education, training, advocacy and easy access to entrepreneurship network. It focused on students/trainees and alumni coming out from Skilling ecosystem (i.e. Industrial Training  Institutes  (ITIs),  Polytechnics,  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Kendras  (PMKKs)  and  Jan Shikshan  Sansthans  (JSSs)).  The  project  was  implemented  through  organisations  having experience in entrepreneurship development, entrepreneurship training as well as mentoring and  handholding  in  ten  States  and  two  Union  Territories  (viz.  Assam,  Bihar,  Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Delhi and Puducherry).
- (v) Entrepreneurship Development among Jail Inmates: MSDE through NIESBUD is implementing  a  project  for  'Promoting  Entrepreneurship  Development  among  Jail  Inmates; value  added  skill  up  gradation,  product  innovation  &  development;  and  Strengthening  of Livelihood Business Incubation Centre at Jails of Uttar Pradesh', for creating, fostering and promoting the spirit  of  entrepreneurship  among  the  Jail Inmates through Capacity  Building, Mentoring, Handholding and Incubation Support. The programmes will be undertaken in the Nari Bandi Niketan, Lucknow; Model Jail, Lucknow and Varanasi Jail.
- (vi) Entrepreneurship  promotion  through  Capacity  Building  and  Handholding Support  to  the  beneficiaries  of  Jan  Shikshan  Sansthan  (JSS)  &  Cluster  Artisans  of North  Eastern  Region: IIE,  Guwahati  has  implemented  a  project  for  'Entrepreneurship promotion  through  Capacity  Building  and  Handholding  Support  to  the  beneficiaries  of  Jan Shikshan Sansthans (JSSs) & Cluster Artisans of North Eastern Region with the support of Ministry  of  Skill  Development  and  Entrepreneurship.  IIE,  Guwahati  has  trained  1,934  JSS beneficiaries and cluster artisans under the Project.

The  details  of  the  various  initiatives  taken  by  other  Ministries/Departments  for  promoting entrepreneurial talents in the country are as given below:

- 1) Scheme for Human Resources and Institution-Skill Development of PMKSY: The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) implemented a Scheme forHuman Resources and Institution-Skill Development (SHRISD) from 2017-18 onwards as a component Scheme of  "Pradhan  Mantri  Kisan  Sampada  Yojana(PMKSY)"  during  the  14 th Finance  Commission Cycle. SHRISD was intended only for extending financial support to the training partners/other eligible beneficiaries for i) for establishment of Skill Training Centres and ii) development of modules in food processing. This Scheme, however, did not provide for imparting any Entrepreneurship development/skilling/skill training in food processing directly by the Ministry. The scheme has been discontinued from PMKSY during 15 th Finance  Commission  Cycle  (i.e.  from  01.04.2021  onwards),  but  funds  are  released  to already approved skill projects under committed liability.

Under SHRISD, 26 skill projects have been approved, out of which 25 are Training Centre Projects for establishing 36 skill training centres and one is the Course Content Project for developing 13 Job Roles. As on date, 22 Training

Centre skill projects establishing 31 skill training centres across the country have since been completed and operationalized and the rest four skill projects (i.e. threeTraining Centre projects and one Course Content Project) are under implementation

- 2) Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP): The Start-up Village Entrepreneurship  Programme  (SVEP),  a  sub-scheme  under  the  Deendayal  Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Department of Rural Development, Ministry  of  Rural  Development  scheme  supports  Self-Help  Groups  (SHGs)  or their  family members to set-up small enterprises in the non-farm sector.  SVEP develops an eco-system for enterprise development in rural areas, with SHG households, which includes - Community Enterprise Fund (CEF), Cadre of Community Resource Persons-Enterprise Promotion (CRPEP) and dedicated center for providing information to entrepreneurs called Block Resource Centre (BRC).Block is the unit of implementation. In case of smaller blocks, more than one block  can  be  combined  into  a  single  SVEP  block.  SVEP  is  a  demand-based  programme. State Rural Livelihoods Missions (SRLMs) are the implementing agencies for the project.
- 3) Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP): Ministry of Micro Small  and  Medium  Enterprises  is  implementing  Prime  Minister's  Employment  Generation Programme (PMEGP)through Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), for promoting entrepreneurs in setting up of units in  the non-farm  sector. It aims to bring  together widely dispersed  traditional  artisans/  rural  and  urban  unemployed  youth  and  give  them  selfemployment opportunities to the extent possible, at their doorstep.

Under PMEGP, General Category beneficiaries can avail Margin Money subsidy of 25% of the project cost in rural areas and 15% in urban areas.  For beneficiaries belonging to Special Categories,  such  as  Scheduled  castes,  Scheduled  tribes,  OBCs,  Minorities,  Women, Transgender,  Ex-servicemen,  Differently  Abled,  beneficiaries  belonging  to  Northeastern Region, Aspirational District, Hill and Border areas, etc., the Margin Money subsidy is 35% in rural  areas  and  25%  in  urban  area.  The  maximum  cost  of  project  is  Rs.50  lakh  in  the manufacturing  sector  and  Rs.20  lakh  in  the  service  sector.  Also,  the  own  contribution  for beneficiaries belonging to Special Categorieswhich is 5% of project cost as compared to 10% for General Category beneficiaries.

- (b) The  project  wise  fund  allocated  in  the  different  programmes/projects/Schemes  is placed at Annexure-I and the number of beneficiaries covered in the respective programmes/projects/Schemes is placed at Annexure-II.
- (c) & (d) MSDEis supporting Entrepreneurship Development programmes/projects through its  autonomous  Institutions  NIESBUD,  Noida  and  IIE,  Guwahati.  The  Institutes  collaborate with variousPrivate Industries, Industrial bodies for imparting the Entrepreneurship Development programmes/projects across the country.

## Annexure-I

Year-wise  allocation  and  utilization  of  funds  under  Development  of  Entrepreneurship  by MSDE is given below:

(Rupees in Crore)

|   S. No. | Financial Year   |   Funds Spent |
|----------|------------------|---------------|
|        1 | 2018-19          |          9.52 |
|        2 | 2019-20          |          8.26 |
|        3 | 2020-21          |         11.8  |
|        4 | 2021-22          |          4.19 |
|        5 | 2022-23 *        |          1.89 |

* as on date

The  details  of  funds  spent  by  other  Ministries/Departments  for  promoting  entrepreneurial talents in the country are as given below:

## 1)  Scheme for Human Resources and Institution-Skill Development of PMKSY:

Year-wise allocation and utilisation of funds under SHRISD (Scheme for Human Resources and Institution-Skill Development) of PMKSY (Updated as of 02.02.2023)

(Rupees in crore)

|   S. No. | Financial Year   |   Funds Spent |
|----------|------------------|---------------|
|        1 | 2018-19          |          1.89 |
|        2 | 2019-20          |          1.77 |
|        3 | 2020-21          |          3.58 |
|        4 | 2021-22          |          3.44 |
|        5 | 2022-23 *        |          0.72 |

* as on date

## 2)  Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP):

The fund released under SVEP is as under:

(Rupees in Crore)

| Year     |   Central Share released year wise |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2018-19  |                              84.34 |
| 2019-20  |                              63.62 |
| 2020-21  |                              56    |
| 2021-22  |                              30.9  |
| 2022-23* |                               2.67 |

*as on 31.12.2022

## 3)  Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP):

Funds spent of PMEGP across India during last five years is given below:

(Rupees in crore)

| Year     |   Margin Money Disbursed |
|----------|--------------------------|
| 2018-19  |                  2070    |
| 2019-20  |                  1950.82 |
| 2020-21  |                  2188.8  |
| 2021-22  |                  2977.41 |
| 2022-23* |                  1782.31 |

The number of beneficiaries covered in the respective projects is as given below:

## 1. Pilot project on Entrepreneurship Development in Holy Cities

| Location   |   Number of Participants Trained |
|------------|----------------------------------|
| Varanasi   |                             2251 |
| Haridwar   |                             1438 |
| Pandharpur |                             2684 |
| Puri       |                             1002 |
| Bodh Gaya  |                              645 |
| Kollur     |                              216 |
| Total      |                             8236 |

## 2.  Organising Workshops In Artisan Melas And Haats

NIESBUD  has  organized  a  Workshop  at  SarasMela,Gurugram  covering  39  participants. Ten Participants of the workshop are being provided handholding support for onboarding on  GeM  and  e-commerce  platforms  and  ten  participants  for  value  addition  in  products through design intervention.

## 3.  Creating Entrepreneurial Climate through Training of Trainers and Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS)

NIESBUD has organised 56 Trainers Training Programmes on Employability, Entrepreneurship  and  Life  Skills  during  November  2022  -  January  2023  and  imparted training to 1,387 trainers of JSS.

## 4.  PM YUVA Pilot project

The total number of beneficiaries covered under the project is given below:

| S.No   | Activity                                                   |   Total |
|--------|------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 1      | Principals' Orientation                                    |     396 |
| 2      | Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (Students' Orientation) |   34760 |
| 3      | Community Awareness Program                                |    5003 |
| 4      | Entrepreneurship Development Program                       |   17797 |
| 5      | Training of Trainers (Faculty Facilitator Training)        |     443 |
| 6      | Faculty Mentor Training                                    |     227 |
| 7      | Mentoring Camp                                             |    3951 |
|        | Grand Total                                                |   62577 |

## 5.  Entrepreneurship Development among Jail Inmates

The number of beneficiaries covered in the project is as given below:

| Sl. No.   | Programme                                                                                      |   Number of Participants Trained |
|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1         | Entrepreneurship Development Programme (ENP)                                                   |                              130 |
| 2         | Value Added Training for Skill Upgradation: Product Innovation, Development and Value Addition |                              130 |
|           | TOTAL                                                                                          |                              260 |

6.  Entrepreneurship promotion through Capacity Building and Handholding Support to the beneficiaries of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) & Cluster Artisans of North Eastern Region

The details of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) & Cluster Artisans of North Eastern Region programme are as under:

| S.No.   | Programme Name                                        | No. of Participants   |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|
| 1       | EDP for JSS Beneficiaries                             | 355                   |
| 2       | EDP for Cluster Artisans                              | 394                   |
| 3       | Financial Literacy Program                            | 125                   |
| 4       | Tot Entrepreneurship                                  | 19                    |
| 5       | Tot Consultancy                                       | 36                    |
| 6       | Handholding & business facilitation support programme | 1005                  |
| Total   | Total                                                 | 1,934                 |

The details of beneficiaries by other Ministries/Departments for promoting entrepreneurial talents in the country are as given below:

## 1)  Scheme for Human Resources and Institution-Skill Development of PMKSY:

State-wise details  of  projects  approved  under  SHRISD  (Scheme  for  Human  Resources and Institution-Skill Development) of PMKSY (Updated as on 02.02.2023)

|         |                    | Skill                    | Skill                     | Skill                                |
|---------|--------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Sl. No. | State/UT           | No. of projects approved | No. of projects completed | No. of projects under Implementation |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh     | 1                        | 0                         | 1                                    |
| 2       | Assam              | 1                        | 0                         | 1                                    |
| 3       | Bihar              | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 4       | Chhattisgarh       | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 5       | Goa                | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 6       | Gujarat            | 1                        | 1                         | 0                                    |
| 7       | Haryana            | 6****                    | 4                         | 2                                    |
| 8       | Himachal Pradesh   | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 9       | Jammu & Kashmir UT | 3                        | 3                         | 0                                    |
| 10      | Jharkhand          | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 11      | Karnataka          | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 12      | Kerala             | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 13      | Madhya Pradesh     | 2                        | 2                         | 0                                    |
| 14      | Maharashtra        | 4                        | 4                         | 0                                    |
| 15      | Orissa             | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 16      | Punjab             | 1                        | 1                         | 0                                    |
| 17      | Rajasthan          | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 18      | Tamil Nadu         | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 19      | Telangana          | 1                        | 1                         | 0                                    |
| 20      | Uttar Pradesh      | 1                        | 1                         | 0                                    |
| 21      | Uttarakhand        | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |
| 22      | West Bengal        | 0                        | 0                         | 0                                    |

| 23   | Arunachal Pradesh          | 0   | 0    |   0 |
|------|----------------------------|-----|------|-----|
| 24   | Manipur                    | 1   | 1    |   0 |
| 25   | Meghalaya                  | 1   | 1    |   0 |
| 26   | Mizoram                    | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 27   | Nagaland                   | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 28   | Tripura                    | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 29   | Sikkim                     | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 30   | A & N Islands              | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 31   | Chandigarh                 | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 32   | D & N Haveli & Daman & Diu | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 33   | Delhi                      | 3   | 3    |   0 |
| 34   | Lakshadweep                | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 35   | Pondicherry                | 0   | 0    |   0 |
| 36   | Ladakh UT                  | 0   | 0    |   0 |
|      | Total                      | 26* | 22** |   4 |

## Note:

**** Out  of  six  projects  in  Haryana,  five  are  training  centre  projects  and  one  is  course content development project .

* Out  of  26  approved  projects,  25  are  skill  training  centre  projects  and  one  is  course content development project.
- ** 22 training skill projects have been completed and operationalized as on date.

## 2)  Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP):

The SVEP scheme is approved in 29 States/UT in 258 blocks as on 31 st December, 2022 and 2.23 lakhs enterprises have been supported so far. The details are as under:

|   S. No. | State/UT             | Enterprise Supported   |
|----------|----------------------|------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh       | 17,495                 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh    | 0                      |
|        3 | Assam                | 3,351                  |
|        4 | Bihar                | 22,418                 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh         | 15,270                 |
|        6 | Goa                  | 0                      |
|        7 | Gujarat              | 5,918                  |
|        8 | Haryana              | 8,891                  |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh     | 0                      |
|       10 | Jammu & Kashmir (UT) | 2,262                  |
|       11 | Jharkhand            | 18,337                 |
|       12 | Karnataka            | 0                      |
|       13 | Kerala               | 27,029                 |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh       | 22,091                 |
|       15 | Maharashtra          | 4,506                  |
|       16 | Manipur              | 1,145                  |
|       17 | Meghalaya            | 821                    |
|       18 | Mizoram              | 957                    |
|       19 | Nagaland             | 4,025                  |

| 20   | Odisha        | 12,910   |
|------|---------------|----------|
| 21   | Punjab        | 1,995    |
| 22   | Rajasthan     | 8,528    |
| 23   | Sikkim        | 28       |
| 24   | Tamil Nadu    | 4,020    |
| 25   | Telangana     | 11,171   |
| 26   | Tripura       | 0        |
| 27   | Uttar Pradesh | 17,382   |
| 28   | Uttarakhand   | 1,810    |
| 29   | West Bengal   | 11,112   |
|      | Total         | 2,23,472 |

- 3)  Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP):

Performance of PMEGP across India during last five years is given below:

| Year     |   Units Assisted |   Estimated Employment Generated |
|----------|------------------|----------------------------------|
| 2018-19  |            73427 |                           587416 |
| 2019-20  |            66653 |                           533224 |
| 2020-21  |            74415 |                           595320 |
| 2021-22  |           103219 |                           825752 |
| 2022-23* |            55499 |                           443992 |

* as on 31.01.2023

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