National Faculty Development Programme in Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Entrepreneurship can be successfully taught like any other discipline - Today, there are worthwhile testimonies to this claim. Prestigious management institutes offer full-fledged courses on entrepreneurship and many students have ventured into the field but the incidence needs to be enhanced. The Government of India, through its newly established Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), focuses on developing entrepreneurial and employability skills among the youth through. entrepreneurship education and training, advocacy and easy access to entrepreneurship networks. The Ministry has- been also trying to deliver world class Learning and Management System (LMS) to equip potential as well as early stage entrepreneurs. The Govt. of India has launched several progra~mes to develop entrepreneurs in sectors such as manufacturing, IT and digital services, healthcare, and sanitary and hygiene. To achieve aforementioned objectives the Government has launched pan India programmes, viz. 'Start-up India', 'Stand-up India', 'Make-in India', 'Digital India', 'Swachh Bharat (Clean India)', that are aimed at further propelling entrepreneurship movement in India. Sculpting its mandate around this mission, EDII looks forward to increasing its effort towards cultivating entrepreneurial bent of mind and knowledge in youth. The most crucial change agents in this process are the faculty members specializing in teaching entrepreneurship.