Role of Development Institutes for Promoting  Entrepreneurship– A Study on CMJSY and PMEGP

Subhrangshu Sekhar Sarkar; Satyendra Kumar Pandey

Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2013

Role of Development Institutes for Promoting Entrepreneurship– A Study on CMJSY and PMEGP

Subhrangshu Sekhar Sarkar, Satyendra Kumar Pandey

Abstract :

The present Paper makes an attempt to find out the importance of development Institutes in promoting rural entrepreneurship development in the state of Assam. It focuses on functioning of two flagship schemes of two institutes in Assam for rural entrepreneurship development. A through field survey is carried out to know the efficacy of two schemes. The work is based on secondary as well as primary data. For secondary data two development institutes viz. SIRD and KVIC has been selected and from each institutes two flagship schemes i.e. Chief Minister’s Jeevan jyoti Swarojgar Yojna (CMJSY) and Prime Minister’s Employment Guarantee Programme (PMEGP) has been selected for study purpose. The lists of beneficiaries collected from these two institutes are the sources of primary data. Structured Questionnaire has been framed to collect the data as per the objectives. The data were put in SPSS for analysis and various Cross–tables were framed to get the analysis and findings.