(a) the role of ‘National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise’ in promoting
rural development, preparing business plans and policy for formulation and promotion of
MSME; and
(b) the achievements made by the Institute during each of the last three years in this
regard?
MINISTER OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
(SHRI MAHABIR PRASAD)
(a) The National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Hyderabad is a
national level entrepreneurship development training institution set up by the Ministry
of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). The main role of the Institute is to
promote entrepreneurship development in the country through training, consultancy, research,
education, extension and information. For promoting rural development, the Institute
organizes entrepreneurship development programmes and motivates unemployed youth for
self-employment. As a part of curriculum for entrepreneurship development programmes,
the Institute also assists trainees in preparing business plans. The Institute also
functions as a nodal agency for development of industrial clusters under the Cluster
Development Programmes being implemented by various organisations. Further, the Institute
also provides inputs for policy formulation to the Government in the form of surveys and
studies, market research, evaluation studies etc.
(b) The achievements of the Institute during the last three years are as under:
Year No. of No. of Surveys, No. of Clusters Training Studies, assisted Programmes Consultancy, etc.
2004-05 280 20 21 2005-06 279 23 23 2006-07 234 21 38