Eastern Regional Office: Bhubaneswar
EDII at the Eastern Region of India with the onus of advancing the arena of entrepreneurship ecosystem, has been contributing and committed towards holistic growth of the region to support market demand and display the social responsiveness. The entrepreneurial contours are fast shaping up in the region, including the bottom of pyramid. The result-oriented interventions and impacts have been heartening and continue to move up the ladder. To oversee the work in the entire region, the institute has set up Eastern Regional Office (ERO) at Bhubaneswar, State office in Kolkata and several project offices in the region across Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andaman & Nicobar.
Major Activities Undertaken
Sr. No. | Interventions | Descriptions |
1 | Entrepreneurship Training Programmes for Youth, Industrial Clusters, Cluster Development Executives etc under Ministry of MSME, Govt of India | Entrepreneurship Sensitisation and Development Programme (ESDP) Digital MSME, Industrial Motivation Campaigns (IMC) Online- Thematic Training Programmes for SC-ST youths under NSSH scheme of NSIC |
2 | Technical Agency (SFURTI) under Ministry of MSME, Govt of India with KVIC, IED Odisha, Coir Board, COHANDS, PPDC Agra | Bamboo Craft Cluster at Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi Bamboo Craft Cluster at Baripada, Mayurbhanj Bamboo Craft Cluster at Rohibanka, Nayagarh Berhampur Handloom Cluster, Ganjam Athmalik Handloom Cluster, Angul Applique Cluster at Bhadrak |
3 | Handmade India (HMI) Project | To boost the marketability, introduce appropriate market oriented designs in Handlooms of Barpalli in Bargarh, EDII has been working closely with the weavers of Bargarh under the project. |
4 | EDI acts as a Project Management & Consultant (PMC) for MSE-CDP | Preparation of comprehensive Diagnostic Study Reports (DSRs) for Angul Engineering Cluster, Angul; Pipli Applique Cluster, Puri; Pahal Rasagola Cluster, Khordha, Angul Fly Ash Cluster, Angul; Siminai Powerloom Cluster, Dhenkanal for Directorate of Industries, Govt of Odisha Soft Interventions for Leather Products Cluster at Topsia, Kolkata for Office of DCMSME, Ministry of MSME, Government of India |
5 | Skill to Success with Accenture | EDII has aligned its approach to contain migration by enabling the migrants to opt for self-employment through skilling under the project. |
6 | Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) | 10 blocks in Odisha; 8 blocks in West Bengal, 2 blocks in Jharkhand and 1 block in Chhattisgarh |
7 | Faculty Development Programme (FDP) in Entrepreneurship | EDII has trained hundreds of Faculties of Engineering and Management Institutions of eastern states, CEOs and Managers of Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Social Change makers, Senior Executives of Financial Institutions including m-FIs |
8 | Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) | EDII has taken its mandate to inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship among youths through modes of organising EDPs, Technology based EDPs, Women – EDPs in engineering and management institutions with the support of DST, Govt of India |
9 | Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) | EDII has successfully completed Physical Verification of PMEGP Units in Odisha for FY 2011-12 and 2012-13 under the assignment. The quality of assignment has been appreciated by the O/o KVIC. |
| Digital Financial Literacy Programme (DFLP) under PSIG, SIDBI | EDII has sensitised hundreds of existing MSMEs and traditional traders on use of digital forms of financial transactions in businesses across Odisha, West Bengal |
10 | Business Plan Preparation and Appraisal with the support of SIDBI | EDII has trained about 50 Senior Management Executives of m-FIs, TBIs, Founders and Managers of Start-Ups, Heads of CSR on preparation of Business Plan and its Appraisal |
11 | Certificate Course in Project Management | About 15 state Govt Officials of different SRLMs, CSR heads were trained on Nuances of Project Management in social and development sector |
12 | Implementing BDS in MSME Clusters with Department for International Development (DFID), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), The World Bank & Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). | Leather clusters at Kolkata, Santiniketan |
13 | Promotion of Women-SHGs under NABARD | Promoting micro enterprises through promotion of 1000 WSHGs in LWE district of Dhenkanal |
14 | Industry Associations’ / Business Membership Organisations Capacity Building Training Programmes | EDII has been working very closely with Industry associations and Business Membership Organisations (BMOs) in eastern region including Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh for their capacity building, institution building, strengthening governance structure |
15 | Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women | 135 Strengthening SHGs/Federations and Promoting IGAs, Promoting cadre of Self Employed Business Development Service Providers at local level from among the communities |
16 | Rural Industries Programme with SIDBI | Identification of business opportunities and development of entrepreneurs through capacity building efforts. |
17 | Enterprise development under CSR of TATA Steel | 200 women and youths trained 107 started their individual or group activities through 57 enterprises grounded and scaled -up |
18 | Strategic CSR project for Tata Sponge Iron Ltd (TSIL) | EDII facilitated smooth shifting of project affected families with rehabilitation through strategic interventions like sensitisation, skilling, enterprise promotion etc |
19 | Cluster Resource and Management Agency [CRMA] – HANDLOOMS | 10 Clusters in Odisha |
20 | National Resource Agency (NRA) – Office of DC – Handlooms | Sonepur (Odisha), Bargarh (Odisha), Burdwan (West Bengal), Nadia (West Bengal) |
21 | Implementing Agency (IA) & Implementing Agency for Consolidation Phase from 2012 to 2015 | Sonepur (Odisha) |
22 | NTFP Based Micro Enterprise Development, Value Addition & Marketing for OFSDP, Government of Orissa | Development of a cadre of forest officials having expertise in community organization |
23 | Certificate Course on Shakti Sahayika (BDSP for SHGs/ Federations) for Govt of Odisha | To enhance their potentialities To make them self sufficient in their respective fields. To stimulate their thoughts to bring a revolution in the field of SHGs To enhance their personality development and their art of living through Yoga. |
24 | Business Development Service Providers for Mission Shakti & Employment Mission, Odisha | Ideating and Development of a cadre of BDSPs at Panchayat level to groom SHGs and promote micro enterprise among women A cadre of 194 BDSPs developed |
25 | Increasing employability of Displaced Families under Project of Vedanta Aluminum limited | Enhancing employability of the DFs through imparting soft skill and hard skill 135 DF personnel trained and employed successfully by the company |
26 | Intrapreneurship Development programmes | Intrapreneurship Development programmes have been conducted for training DGM, AGM and Manager level officials of IRE, Kerala and Odisha. |
27 | Policy Advocacy and Action Research | Action Research to identify Business opportunities for Rural Areas and provide handholding Support to SHGs for Mission Shakti, Government of Odisha (2008) FNSt sponsored study on “Impact of New Economic Policy of SMEs” for Odisha An Action Research in Unorganized Sector – Handloom for DC(Handlooms) for Integrated Handloom Cluster Development Scheme at Sonepur Business Development Service Providers in India: A Study of Calcutta Metropolitan [2000] Enterprise Development Strategy in Hilly and Mountain Regions in Jharkhand, Odisha [2001] |