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Empowering Educators and Trainers Unleashing the Power of Clusters

...Faculty Development Programme and ...The National Rural Economic Transformation

Trainers' Training Programme
Operating in clusters bring several advantages of economies and scale to the units
involved. Also, approaching development of enterprises functioning in clusters becomes
The role of educators and institutional stakeholders in cultivating entrepreneurial competencies among students highly rewarding and result-oriented. The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has
has become increasingly significant. Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) and Training of Trainers (ToT) serve launched the National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP), with a special
as critical platforms to bring change in empowering educators and trainers to integrate entrepreneurship into focus on artisan-based cluster development. As a Technical Support Agency (TSA) to State
their teaching and outreach strategies. As a Centre of Excellence in Entrepreneurship, EDII plays a major role in Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs), EDII provides specialised technical assistance to
equipping the faculty group with relevant competencies to spearhead entrepreneurship.
artisans across various clusters to foster entrepreneurship. In the past two months,
following interventions were undertaken in various clusters:

NRETP Highlights

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Artisans Mobilized Artisan Cards Issued Artisans Trained

Badarwas Jacket cluster, Madhya Pradesh

On June 11, 2025, On June 11, 2025, Mr. Abhishek Shukla, representative of the
Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Badarwas, visited the Badarwas Jacket
Participants of Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MCED) with Director General, EDII. Producer company and interacted with women to raise awareness about education and
career opportunities that could be made available for them and their children, by
To strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Maharashtra, EDII conducted a Training of Trainers' (ToT) undergoing ITI programmes. Women learnt about the trainings that they could adopt to
Programme for the employees of Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MCED) from 30th ensure sustainable livelihood options for themselves.
June to 4th July 2025 at its campus.
The programme saw participation of 30 employees from six regional centres of MCED. It was designed to
enhance their competencies in formulating outcome based entrepreneurship development programmes.
Participants received in-depth inputs on training methodologies of entrepreneurship, long-term strategic
planning for organisational development, and innovative tools to foster entrepreneurship at the grassroots.
Dr. Prakash Solanki was the Programme Director.

Similarly, to equip another equally significant cadre in society, the Faculty Group, EDII conducted a Faculty
Development Programme on 'New Venture Development' during 16th to 21st June 2025, with the support of
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The programme aimed to enhance the knowledge and
mentoring skills of faculty members in entrepreneurship.
15 faculty members of PSG College of Technology participated in the six-day programme. The sessions focused
on opportunity identification, business model development, startup financing, entrepreneurial pedagogy,
and the role of incubation in venture support. Participants engaged in interactive discussions, case-based
learning, and practical assignments, specially designed to help them foster entrepreneurship among students.
Programme Director, Dr Satya Ranjan Acharya, led the Programme.
From 2nd July 2025, a 7-day New Design Development Workshop was launched in the
On similar lines, EDII also conducted two Faculty Development Programmes, one on 13th June on its campus
and the other on 20th June 2025 at Saurashtra University Campus, Rajkot. Together the programmes Badarwas Cluster. The workshop aimed to enhance the creative and technical skills of
addressed 45 faculty members on 'Teaching Entrepreneurship: Pedagogical Strategies for Today's local artisans by introducing them to contemporary design concepts, market trends and
Classrooms'. The sessions introduced them to innovative instructional methods and collaborative learning value-added product development. 30 artisans attended the workshop.
mechanisms, in the emerging start up ecosystem in the country

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