Module-3 Ed
Module-3 Ed
SUPPORTING
ENTREPRENEURS
Institutions supporting
entrepreneurs
The term institutional support refers to the part of economic environment of industry
and business. It consisting of authorities and institutions whose decisions and active
support in form of laws, regulation, financial and non-financial help brings a lot of
changes in the functioning of any business.
There are three stages of promotion - inception stage, operational stage and
expansion or diversification stage.
Small industry financing developing
countries:
To meet this requirement , the government (both central and state level )has
been undertaking several steps like setting up of banks and financial
institution; formulating various policies and scheme etc.
2.Improving the efficiency, effectives and delivery of the change agents and
development practitioners I.e. trainers, support organizations engaged in
enterprise building etc.
• The Central policies for the SSI sector serve as guidelines but each state
evolves its own policy and package of incentives. The
commissioner/Director of Industries in all the States/UTs, oversee the
activities of field offices. That is, the District Industries Centers(DICs) at
the district t level.
DISTRICT INDUSTRIES
CENTERS (DIC)
In order to extend the promotion of small-scale and cottage industries beyond
big cities and state capitals to the district headquarters, the DIC programme was
initiated in May 1978 as a centrally sponsored scheme with the objective of
developing small, tiny and cottage sector industries in the country.
DIC‟s were also established with the aim of generating greater employment
opportunities especially in the rural and backward areas in the country. These
centers provide support facilities/concessions/centrally in widely dispersed rural
areas and other small towns. There were 430 centrally approved DIC‟s which
covered almost all the districts of the country (except the metropolitan cities) at the
time of the withdrawal of the central sponsorship in 1993-94
The main objectives of SFC‟s are to finance and promote small and
medium enterprises in their respective states for achieving balanced
regional growth, catalyses investment, generate employment and widen
the ownership base of industry.
At present, there are 18 SFC‟s of which one as set up under the SFCs Act,
while Tamil Nadu Industrial and Investment Corporation Ltd., was set up
under the Companies Act
It regulates the institution which provides financial help to the rural economy.
It regulates the cooperative banks and the RRB’s, and manages talent
acquisition
Watershed Development: With the entire country facing the problems of water
scarcity, NABARD was engaged in perfecting its experiments in creating a
sustainable cost effective solution to the water harvesting techniques in rural India.
Rural Innovation Fund: In association with Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC) NABARD has constituted the NABARD-SIDC Rural
Innovation Fund (RIF) to support innovative projects in farm, non-farm and micro-
finance sectors.
Credit Support: At its business, NABARD provides credit support that suits
every activity in rural India.
Industrial Development Bank of India
(IDBI)
It is the principal financial institution for
providing credit and other facilities for developing
industries and assisting development institutions.
was established in the july 1964 as an
apex financial institution for industrial
development in the country
It caters to the diversified needs of medium and
large scale industries in the form of financial
assistence,both direct and indirect.
Objectives of IDBI
Incorporation under the companies Act has provided SIDCOs with greater
operational flexibility and wider scope for undertaking a variety of
activities for the benefit of the small sector.
The important functions performed by the SIDCOs
include:
To procure and distribute scarce raw materials
of small-scale industries.
To construct industrial estates/sheds, providing