Training camp of Startup Rural Entrepreneurship Programme concluded in Mashobra

The six-day Community Resource Person Enterprise Promotion (CRP-EP) training program, organized under the Startup Village Entrepreneurship Program (SVEP), concluded successfully on Tuesday in the Mashobra development block. Twenty participants participated. The six-day training program was organized by the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship Development, Ahmedabad, and State Anchor Amit Singh played a key role in training the participants.
Block Development Officer Mashobra Ankit Kotiya, while presiding over the closing ceremony, said that the objective of the training is to promote entrepreneurship in rural areas, enable youth and members of self-help groups for self-employment and encourage the establishment of new enterprises at the local level. He said that during this six-day training, the participants were trained on the process of community mobilization, the need and techniques of triggering, the process of identifying potential entrepreneurs, besides the qualities and characteristics of a successful entrepreneur, effective communication skills, problem solving and decision-making ability, counselling techniques, selection of entrepreneurs, business development and various practical and technical topics related to the establishment and operation of an enterprise.
Ankit Kotiya stated that the Startup Rural Entrepreneurship Program is an important initiative to empower employment generation, self-reliance, and local economic development in rural areas. He urged the trained participants to identify as many potential entrepreneurs as possible in their respective Panchayat areas, connect them with the program, and play an active role in establishing successful rural enterprises. He stated that the trained CRP-EPs will prove to be a vital link in promoting rural entrepreneurship and will make a significant contribution to building a “self-reliant India” by connecting rural youth and women to self-employment.
At the end of the programme, all the participants resolved to use the knowledge and skills gained from the training at the grassroots level and connect more and more rural families with self-employment and entrepreneurship.
LSEO Lalita Kumari, officers and employees of the development block office and National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) were also present in the camp.