CHANGES IN EDP
Introduction
It can be said that liberalization, privatization & globalization, has opened up our economy through all corners. But the disappointing view is that, they have not encouraged to reduce the rate of unemployment in the nation. Of course, the dangerous evil threatening our economy is ‘unemployment’ and ‘under-employment’. Measures on war-footing basis are being adapted by the nation to curtail the effects of those evils, and to prevent spreading through the generations. Among them, one notable method is by organizing Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDP), which is targeted to promote self-employment among the qualified masses.
The philosophy of Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) is based on the assumption that entrepreneurs are not only born, but can also be identified, trained and thus created. EDPs are meant to cover all types of training programmes which are imparted to the individuals, with the aim to make the trainees to acquire the necessary skills required to start-up and sustain any enterprise. Therefore, any kind of programmes, such as awareness programmes, promotional programmes and training classes are included under the meaning of EDP.
EDP ? as practiced today
Our nation recognized the practice of organizing EDPs, late in the 1970’s, after the popular Kakinada experiment by David McClelland on entrepreneurial motivation. EDPs in India gained momentum only during 1990s, when there was a staunch need for eliminating unemployment. Thus EDPs are conducted with the aim to identify, select, train and motivate potential entrepreneurs so that they can become job creators instead of job seekers, and to utilise developed human resources in the right direction for generating self-employment a ...