Implementing Agency: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Gujarat

NECTAR has supported a project to enhance the livelihood of the people / youth of Sootea area by making them sustainably self-employed in the agriculture and allied activities. The main objective of the project is selection and engaging about 200 progressive farmers/Entrepreneurs, belonging to economically weaker sections, who has the willingness to become self-employed through Dairy Farming, Fishery cum Duck Farming, Pig farming, Goat Farming and Bee Keeping.

Outcome and People Benefited: -

Total 200 participants participated from Sonitpur district who shall in future take up pig farming, Dairy Farming, Fishery cum Duck Farming and Goat Farming. It has resulted in an increase of farm-based businesses in Sootea area which has set an example for other neighbouring areas. It has also helped in addressing the issue of unemployment in the region and enhance the confidence of rural youth in self-employment activities and grow the spirit of entrepreneurship among the rural poor.

Implementing Agency: Mindshare, New Delhi.

Mindshare India is a non-profit organisation founded in 2011 with an aim to educate people about their rights and duties. Mindshare has been working in the area of education, health, research and policy since 2011. It has come up with a project on making India’s best police stations as OXON mentors with the support from NECTAR. The main objectives of the project is to establish the top three (3) police stations identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) as Model Community Stations and provide training to the officials and local public on community service for self-reliant socio-economic development of region.

Outcome and People Benefited: -

Currently, the training program is complected in Nongpok Sekmai, Thoubal (Manipur). In the two weeks bootcamp held from 6th February to 20th February 2022, the police officials were trained in 8 priority areas of Telemedicine, E-Commerce, Digital education and marketing, Agriculture, Affordable Housing, Mobile Journalism, Heritage and Ecology Tourism, and Waste Management.

Implementing Agency: EDII

One of the mandates of NECTAR is to provide trainings on technology demonstration and propagation, skill development and entrepreneurship development in areas of requirement in the NER. In this regard, NECTAR has collaborated with EDII to implement its mandate in the NER. The Indian MSME sector provides maximum opportunities for both self-employment and wage-employment outside the agricultural sector and contributes to building an inclusive and sustainable society in innumerable ways through creation of non-farm enterprises, balanced regional development, gender and social balance, environmentally sustainable development, etc. However, NER records a lower percentage of total MSMEs. This is because, despite attempts by several organizations to inculcate the entrepreneurial spirit, marginal success has been achieved due to the lack of business environment. This indicates that entrepreneurship development with exposure, is the need of the hour not only to take the state on a faster industrial and economic growth but also to solve the growing problem of unemployment, rural migration etc. EDII has identified three major stages of training intervention for promoting entrepreneurship as Pre-Start-up stage, Start-up stage and Survival & growth stage. Accordingly it has classified its entrepreneurship development programme into the following categories: Entrepreneurship Orientation & Awareness Programmes, New Enterprise Creation Programme and Entrepreneurship Programme for existing small business survival & growth.

The project is expected to create outcome and impact over a period of 3 years in terms of the followings:

1. Human Resource Development
   • 4500 potential/existing entrepreneurs to be sensitized on entrepreneurship.
   • 7800 potential/existing entrepreneurs to be facilitated through technology demonstration programmes, technology propagation programmes, skill development programmes, IPR programmes etc.
2. Entrepreneurship Development
   • 1125 aspiring/existing entrepreneurs to be nurtured for new enterprise creation through entrepreneurship development programmes.
3. Socio economic development
   • 2500 existing entrepreneurs will be benefitted by improving their business performance, technology upgradation etc.
   • 350 new enterprises to be created/upgraded
   • 4500 jobs to be generated within the region
   • Migrated workforce to get income generating activities
   • Bringing NER economy to the mainstream

Outcome and People Benefited: -

EDP- Banderdewa, Arunachal Pradesh Dated 21st March 2022 - 31st March,2022 (ongoing)

8 EAPs (4 EAP in Assam and 4 EAP in Arunachal Pradesh) for creating awareness for the EDPs

EDP - Sukanjari, Nagaon Dated 7th Feb,2022 -17th Feb,2022

EDP- Gandhibori, Nagaon Dated 10th Feb,2022 - 21st Feb,2022

EDP - Tinsukia Dated 26th Feb,2022 - 9th March,2022

EDP- Upia, Arunachal Pradesh Dated 7th March,2022 - 17th March,2022

EDP - Sukanjari

EDP - Gandhibori

EDP - Tinsukia

EDP- Upia

EDP- Banderdewa