Training for potential entrepreneurs

Training for potential entrepreneurs – a series

            Training is good for those who are willing to opt for entrepreneurial career; who have aspiration to be on their own, who has thought for entrepreneurship & taking initiative and acting on it. Otherwise it remains one more educational course.

            Training courses are available for almost every section of the society. Livelihood activity training for below poverty line men/women; self employment training for educated unemployed youth, vocational training or entrepreneurship training for scheduled class, tribes and general class, programs for physically challenged people, similarly both training for women, ex-servicemen, entrepreneurship development training for potential entrepreneurs; management development programs, seminar & workshops on different themes for existing entrepreneurs are being conducted in the training market.

Even tailor made courses are available for college students, VRS/CRS/NRI people. So it is up to individual to think which course is suitable to attend.

If you are sharp even to generate business ideas, visit & collect information, develop network, influence officials, get the work done from others, implement your own ideas, then you may not attend any course. But the training course will provide you such information, skills & attitude in short span of time, in less cost, with less effort.

Normally there are three kind of training programs i) awareness program, ii) vocational program and iii) entrepreneurship development programs (EDPs). Duration of such programs is 3 days to min to 2 weeks to 12 weeks respectively.

There are number of Govt. organizations (GOs) well as NGOs, educational institutions, who organize such training programs. Organization like DIC, CEDs, TCOs, govt. agencies MSME, NIESBUD, NSIC, NISIET, EDII and other state organizes many kinds of training programs in all the parts & corners of the country. 

Special training programs like Central Footwear Training Institute provide training for footwear, Tools Room & Tool Design Institutes provide training in Engineering Industry; Coir board provide training on coir industry. Food technology training provided by CFTRI; likewise other technical training is provided by various institutions of Centre & State Government.

Nowadays many educational institutions have started diploma & degree courses in entrepreneurship. Even management institutions have MBA in entrepreneurship.

The machinery suppliers, machinery manufacturers, equipment providers, product manufactures are also a source of training providers. They are in the sales of manufactures business. For example: Garware Polymers are the manufactures of sun glass films they provide training for small vendors of pasting glass films. Machinery installation & commissioning is the prime responsibility of machinery suppliers; same is the case with erection of machinery.