eNGO/eMSME National Programme

Human Welfare Association is facilitating a process with the support of Digital Empowerment Foundation; New Delhi is going to launch an e-NGO program for the Preparation of a dedicated website of the NGO for the promotion of Handicraft and Handloom.  The services to the website, training to operate the website will be absolutely free from the DEF, New Delhi but they will charge minimum from NGO for Web Hosting and Facilitating the Web pages in unlimited manner for the NGO as one time contribution. The NGOs will be the owner of the website and they will directly run their websites after getting a proper training at local level.  It is an excellent opportunity to the NGOs who are working in the development sector for the promotion of the artisans, weavers, and other marginalized group in the society. The website will be the show case of their excellent work for the international as well as local community and various stakeholders of the world.

We have organized a 2 days orientation workshop on 16-17 January, 2011 at Varanasi for the NGOs who will be register for the website before 10^th January, 2010.

A reliable database is a key input to policy decision-making process. This is more so for the micro and small enterprise (MSE) in view of its large size and wide disparity among the enterprises within the sector. The Office of the DC (MSME) conducts periodic census for strengthening/updating the database on MSE sector. So far, this office has conducted three censuses in the year 1971-72, 1992-93 and 2002-03. However, the limiting factor is the long gap between two censuses and the high cost involved in conducting census. In the intermittent period, two sources are used by this office for obtaining information/data on the status of the MSE sector. First is the District Industries Centres (DICs) of the State Governments, which furnish the updated information on the number of registered enterprises. But registered enterprises constitute only small percentage of the total number of enterprises, thereby leaving a huge data gap. The second important source is the MSE Associations, which are spread across the country. The present database with this office suggests the number of such Associations is in the vicinity of 350, including both National and State level, and are mainly sector/product specific. This Office has been using the services of these Associations from time to time, especially with regard to data on number of unregistered enterprises, production, exports, etc. relating to specific product groups like pump industry, drugs and pharmaceuticals, etc. However, limited availability of funds is the main constraint faced by these Associations in building a reliable database. Click here for more details…..