1. Budding Entrepreneurs & Industry Linkages
EDII’s Role.

2. A national Resource Institute for
Entrepreneurship Education.
Research.
Training.
Institution Building.
An autonomous and not for profit Institute.
Set up in 1983 is sponsored by IDBI Bank, IFCI, ICICI Bank & SBI.
Helped set up 12 state level exclusive entrepreneurship development centre & institutes.
Set up Entrepreneurship Development Centres in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam & Uzbekistan.
Five more to be set up in African region.

3. Regional office in Guwahati. EACs EDPs WEDPs FDPs
NER
Regional office in Guwahati.
EACs
EDPs
WEDPs
FDPs
Promoting Enterprises in food Processing sector under Ministry of food processing, Govt of India.
Conducted four EDPs in Assam in & grounded 51 Units.
i-STED
Food Processing
Cane & Bamboo
Renewable Energy

4. Food Processing
Technical Collaboration with IICPT/ NSIC / CIPET.
Type of Programmes
EACs.
EDPs.
Techno Demonstration.
Technical Training Programmes.
Exposure Visit.
No of Programmes done & people trained as on 31st March 2016.
EACs
EDPs
Techno Demo
Technical Trg
Exposure Visit
Units Grounded during last two years
= 28

5. Case study :- 1 Name of the Entrepreneur: Mrs. Illa Moni Bora
Name of the Enterprise: M/s Trinayan Gramin Food Products
Address: Vill.- Village- Jagi
P.O. - Jagi
Dist- Morigaon Pin
Contribution of I-STED Project : Mrs. Illa Moni Bora was engaged in processing as part time activity in a small way. She then attended one EDP conducted at Morigaon under i-STED Project. She decided to take up the food Processing activity as a commercial activity. Her Unit was registered with DI & CC Morigaon & she was guided to get food safety license. She has constructed her factory her factory in aseptic condition installing modern tools & equipments like packaging machines both for bottles & plastic bags hot gun for juice extraction etc. She was also given bank linkages & she got a loan from Union Bank, DI &CC, Morigaon also sanctioned a subsidy for her Unit.Mrs. Illa moni Bora also attended a technical training Programme on Pickle making at IICPT, Guwahati under i-STED Project. Currently she is producing a number of Items, like Juice etc. under the Brand name “RUCHI”.

6. Photograph of her Unit:

7. Case Study :- 2 Name of the Entrepreneur: Mr. Ramen Kanta Das
Name of the Enterprise: M/s Karan Industry
Address: Vill.- No 2 Goreswar
P.O. - Goreswar
Dist- Baksa, Pin
Contribution of I-STED Project : Mr. Ramen Kanta Das, Age 36,HS passed is an EDP trained entrepreneur under i-STED Project, NER Raman Kanta Das is the youngest of three brothers and was engaged in family rice milling business by his father Lt. Dharini Kanta Das. The operation was traditional & there was no Awareness or Knowledge on Modernisation/Technology Upgradation/Diversification. Shri Das attended an EDP at Goreswar under i-STED Project. There he got the idea of modernization/Diversification of family Business.
EDI arranged a visit by Dr. Jagmohan of IICPT and gave hand holding support on process development which again was followed up by Sri KK Saw who advised machine improvement through addition of small attachments. Sri Das was taken to Ahmadabad for a exposure trip where he got the chance to see modern mustard oil extraction plant. There after coming back , he was given constant support to diversify into mustard oil extraction unit.
He was given linkage with IDBI bank for diversification of the project. But since documentation took time and he is yet to get bank support , he did not hesitate to put all his savings and also borrowing funds from private sources to kick start the project.
Finally he procured a modern machine from Rajkot of Gujarat and started operating a modern mustard oil extraction unit at Goreswar from Dec.2015.He is selling his product in the brand name “ ISHA OIL”.

8. Photograph of his Unit:

9. Problem Faced
Not being able to generate interest amongst 1st generation Entrepreneurs inspite of Awareness & other Programmes.
Grounding rate of Enterprises not upto expectation.
Lack of Technical support.
Response from Bank not encouraging .
Entrepreneurs are more concerned about subsidy.
Lack of organised market.
Most of the Entrepreneurs are small time player’s for bringing adequate promoter’s contribution.
Lack of collateral / additional security.

10. Road Ahead ---- with Question
Whether individual model or group model ?
Integration between growers & processor ?
Status of Food Processing Parks ?
Can we make it on cluster ?
Who will be the stakeholder ?

11. THANK YOU.