💡 Key Objectives:

✅ Promote entrepreneurship through skill enhancement
✅ Empower MSMEs with business development tools
✅ Ensure inclusive growth for women, youth, SC/ST, and physically challenged
✅ Foster innovation and generate employment opportunities

🏆 Who Can Apply?

The call is open to institutions with a proven track record in conducting skill development and entrepreneurship training:

🏛️ Eligible Institutions:

1. 🔹 IITs, IIMs, NITs
2. 🔹 Technology Centers (TCs) & Tool Rooms
3. 🔹 Central Autonomous Bodies under the Ministry of Education
4. 🔹 Central & State Government-affiliated institutions

💪 Eligibility Criteria:
✅ Proven experience in skill & entrepreneurship training
✅ Adequate infrastructure for quality training
✅ Willingness to adopt digital platforms for monitoring & evaluation

📚 ESDP Programme Modules

1. 🎓 Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP):

   1. 1-Day Bootcamp to identify and motivate budding entrepreneurs
   2. Target: 50-100 participants per batch
   3. Expenditure Limit: ₹20,000 per session
   4. Special Focus: 25%-50% sessions with industry/social enterprises

2. 🛠️ Entrepreneurship-cum-Skill Development Programme (E-SDP):

   1. Advanced & Existing E-SDP: Intensive, hands-on technical training
   2. Target: 40% participation from women, SC/ST, and differently-abled

3. 📈 Management Development Programme (MDP):

   1. Advanced & Existing MDP: Upskilling for business management

💰 Funding & Financial Support

💵 No Participation Fee for SC/ST, Women, BPL, and Physically Handicapped
🏦 Honorarium: ₹1,000 per guest speaker per 90–120 min session
🏗️ Administrative Expenses: 5% of the annual budget allocated
🎓 Skill Building: Hiring MBA/Engineering students as trainers @ ₹40,000/month

📄 How to Apply?

📅 Application Deadline: 20th March 2025
📥 Submission: Via email to esdp.div@dcmsme.gov.in
📜 Required Documents:
✅ Application in prescribed format (download from www.dcmsme.gov.in)
✅ Detailed proposal covering:

1. Training coverage (districts, regions)
2. Specialized courses offered
3. Beneficiary focus (Women, SC/ST, Youth, etc.)

🌍 Key Focus Areas

1. 🔹 40% participation from weaker sections (SC/ST/Women/Physically Handicapped)
2. 🔹 Special sessions on Start-up India, Stand-up India, PMEGP, MUDRA, ASPIRE
3. 🔹 Alternative funding insights: Angel Investing, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding
4. 🔹 Women-exclusive & Physically Handicapped training programmes
5. 🔹 Special focus on Aspirational & Backward Districts and North-Eastern Region (NER)

📜 General Guidelines

📌 Programmes under SC/ST Fund: 40% participation required
📌 Flexible Scheduling: Training on holidays or part-time allowed
📌 Handholding Support: Help participants prepare DPRs and access financing
📌 Monitoring: Real-time tracking through digital platforms
📌 Transparent Fund Utilization: 30% advance for programmes; settlement within 15 days