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Current Projects - 2024 – 2025

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (Tamil Nadu) has implemented a variety of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Initiatives for more than 25 years. Our successful initiatives are listed in the page “Milestones”. Currently, CED (Tamil Nadu) is implementing the flagship schemes of Government of India implemented through the different ministries.

Now, we are proud to present the current projects for the year 2024 - 2025.

The different schemes as listed below are being implemented during the current year:

Sl.No.	Flagship Scheme	Sponsoring Ministry / Agency
1	Entrepreneurship Training Programme to the Science and Technology Candidates	Ministry of Science and Technology
2	Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) – implemented in Thirumangalam Block of Madurai District	Ministry of Rural Development
3	AC & ABC Scheme	MANAGE, Hyderabad, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
4	CSR Project to train unemployed Diploma Holder and ITIs in Automobile Sector	Eicher Goodearth Foundation (EGF) - Eicher Group of Companies
5	Usilampatti Development Centre	TVS Motors, City Union Bank and D&MS Trust, Pune
6	Advanced Computer Training in Cyber Security and Data Privacy	NASSCOM Foundation and SkillsDA, Chennai

1. Ministry of Science and Technology Programmes:

CED (Tamil Nadu) has been conducting Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, such as, EAC, EDP, WEDP, TEDP and FDP which have been sponsored by Department of Science & Technology for more than 20 years. More than 10,000 science and technology candidates were benefitted through the EDP and FDP programmes.

CED (Tamil Nadu) has been sanctioned to conduct 3 types of Entrepreneurship Development Programme during the current year 2024-25.

The details of the scheme are listed below:

S.No.	Name of the scheme	Duration	Coordinator’s Name Mobile Number & Email ID
1.	Faculty Development Programme (FDP) in Entrepreneurship	Two weeks	Dr.V.Mohanram Mob: 9443454435 Email:info@cedtn.org
2.	Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP)	Four weeks	Ms.P.Bhagavathi Rani Mobile: 6374890906 Email:info@cedtn.org
3.	Technology based Entrepreneurship Development Programme (TEDP)	Six weeks	Mr. P. Rajaram Mobile: 9786276100 Email: info@cedtn.org

Eligibility criteria for the WEDPs and TEDP:

Science and Technology candidates (Degree / Diploma holders)
Age limit : 21-40 years

Eligibility criteria for FDP:

Teachers of Science, Polytechnic, Engineering and other professional colleges are invited to participate in the FDP.

For further details / clarification, please contact:

Dr. V. Mohanram, Nodal Officer (Mobile: 9443454435)

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2. Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP):

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (Tamil Nadu) is empanelled as a Project Implementing Agency (PIA) for implementing of Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) by Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) under National Rural Livelihood Mission.

Rationale of the SVEP Scheme:

The SVEP Scheme is being implemented in Thirumangalam Block to help the rural poor come out of poverty by helping them set up enterprises and provide a hand holding support till the enterprises stabilize. It has been proposed to nurture 2400 micro enterprises in a span of four years which can be new as well as existing enterprises. CED (Tamil Nadu) has been contracted by TNSRLM to function as the Project Implementing Agency.

The SVEP Scheme has been designed to provide the following support:

Business skills and exposure to the micro entrepreneurs
Loans for starting the business support during the first critical six months of the enterprises by using the NRLM SHGs and their federations.
They are continuously supported by CRP-EPs who are trained as Trainer/Counselor.
The SVEP is expected to support the households and communities even beyond the financial gains it provides.
It shall help rural people specially the marginalized sections, women, and SC and ST communities to gain a sense of dignity and self- reliance leading to great social changes.
Similarly, the wealth generated in the local economy shall have a multiplier effect resulting in strengthening the local economy and reduction in distress migration.
People engaged in a range of enterprises shall create further employment and improve the market.
It shall also encourage new age enterprises in ICT/infotainment.
It shall promote enterprises in the field of sanitation, drinking water, renewable energy etc.
This shall offer more economic opportunities for the rural areas and bring people out of poverty.
The unnecessary migration of the unskilled labour to the cities can be prevented by the effective implementation of the SVEP scheme.

Under the said scheme, CED (Tamil Nadu) will be facilitating and motivating the Rural Entrepreneurs to establish sustainable Micro Enterprises. As part of the scheme during the current year 2024-25, CED (Tamil Nadu) is training 600 women micro entrepreneurs (both new and existing entrepreneurs). CED (Tamil Nadu) has appointed a qualified and trained professional as Mentor to guide and counsel the 25 identified and trained Community Resource Persons – Enterprise Promotion (CRP-EP). The CRP-EPs motivate the potential women entrepreneurs as well as existing entrepreneurs for establishing new and sustainable micro enterprises and develop the existing enterprises respectively.

The SVEP scheme is adopting multiple strategies to identify the potential women entrepreneurs as well as the existing entrepreneurs who require support and guidance for their sustenance and growth in terms of credit linkage and marketing assistance. Accordingly, the Community Based Organizations (CBOs), such as, Panchayat Level Federation (PLF) members and Village Panchayat Resource Centre (VPRC) members and SHG members in each of the 38 village panchayats are being trained during the current year. In each panchayat, 30 CBOs are being trained through an intensive 3-day training programme in the respective VPRC building. The training components cover entrepreneurial competencies, business opportunity guidance, project report preparation, credit linkage and marketing support.

An illustrative list of Success Stories of women micro enterprises trained under the SVEP scheme is provided under Success Stories of Entrepreneurs in our website.

For additional information / clarification: Dr.M. Subburajan (94860 19477)

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3. AC & ABC Scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of

India through MANAGE, Hyderabad

Government of India through its Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has introduced an innovative “Agri Clinics and Agri Business Centres (AC&ABC)” Scheme. The above scheme is being implemented by National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad through its Nodal Training Institutes throughout India. MANAGE has recognized Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (Tamil Nadu), Madurai as a Nodal Training Institute during 2017 – 18 to impart training in this part of the country. This Agriculture EDP training is a two months residential programme and the entire expenditure is met by the Government.

The purpose of the training is to provide extension and other services to the farmers, support agricultural development and to create gainful employment and profitable self employment opportunities to the persons who have studied agricultural related courses. The unemployed graduates / post graduates / diploma holders in agriculture and allied science courses can utilize this good opportunity. The above training is a two months residential programme and offered Free of Cost to the beneficiaries. They need to pay only an application-cum-registration fee Rs.500/- payable to MANAGE, Hyderabad.

Subsidy pattern under Agri Clinics and Agri Business Centres (ACABC) Scheme has been revised from “capital and interest subsidy” to “Composite Subsidy” which will be back-ended in nature. It will be 44% of project cost for women and SC/ST candidates and 36% of project cost for all other categories of entrepreneurs. Further, the ceiling of project cost for subsidy has been enhanced to Rs.20 lakhs for an individual project and upto Rs.100 lakhs for a group project.

CED (Tamil Nadu) conducted 3 batches of Agri EDP during 2017 – 2018, benefiting 62 candidates, 4 batches during 2018-2019 benefiting 81 candidates, 4 batches during 2019-2020 benefiting 100 candidates and 1 batch of 17 candidates during 2023-24. Thus, CED (Tamil Nadu) has trained 260 candidates. The success stories of 130 candidates were shared with MANAGE, Hyderabad.

For the current year 2024-25, MANAGE has issued a notification dated 22^nd October, 2024 with the liberal sanction of financial assistance and inclusion of other relevant science candidates, such as, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry and Life Sciences.

For additional information / clarification:

Dr.M.Subburajan (94860 19477) / Dr.V.Mohanram (94434 54435)

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4. CSR Project to train the unemployed Engineering Diploma and ITI Holders through a one month free technical and residential training and place them in the Automobile Sector:

The Eicher Group Foundation (EGF) is a CSR initiative of the Eicher Group of Companies. The EGF has come forward to initiate decentralized demand driven employability and entrepreneurship training for youth in the age group of 19-23 yrs. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (Tamil Nadu) was identified as the Project Implementing Agency for the flagship programme of the EGF. The scheme has envisaged training of 1000 unemployed engineering diploma and ITI holders every year in 5 specific skills under the automobile sector. The training centre is expected to organize placement after the successful training for around 85% of the trainees in the automobile companies. The trainees coming out of such innovative technical training programme will be able to performon“Day-1”.

RE Academy for technical skills,Oragadam,Chennai:

CED (Tamil Nadu), Madurai in association with EGF has established the Technical Training Centre at Rrase Engineering College, Vanchuvancherry, Padappai, Chennai. Through the above said scheme, Course outline and Content were developed for 5 specific courses. The following technical courses are covered through this initiative:

Automobile Engine assembly
Automobile Vehicle assembly
Industrial Welding
Machining Processes
Industrial Machine Shop Maintenance

In each of the above technical course, soft skills and life skills training have been integrated in the training programme.The following soft skill components have been incorporated:

Language proficiency and Communication skill
Inter Personal Relationship(IPR)skills
Teambuilding
Personality development
Life skills to keep the body and mind fit for the job
Yoga and Meditation

Training Facilities and Faculty:

The entire programme is conducted at Rrase College of Engineering, Padappai,Chennai.The requiredteachingaids including vehicles,cut sections,exploded models, working models, electronic circuit boards,training charts, CNC machine, etc., are installed in the college.The cost of the above said machines, equipments and tools will be around Rs.4 crores.Hostel accommodation to both boys and girls are provided in the college campus. CED (Tamil Nadu) has identified and appointed reputed trainers as the primary trainers for each course.In addition, guest lectures by industry experts and consultants will be organized.The trainees are taken for industrial visits with the support of the sponsor to add value to the courses.

Placement:

CED (Tamil Nadu) will facilitate placement for all the successful trainees at the end of thetraining. It is also net working with different industrial organizations for conducting placement interviews. The candidates are made aware that the placement is given on merit and therefore, the training is to be taken seriously.

Achievements of the Implementing Agency :

The scheme focuses on the freshers coming out of the polytechnic colleges and ITIs fromTamil Nadu and other states. The scheme was launched on August 14, 2019. The MoU was signed initially for one year, extended for two years and the current MoU which is in progress has been signed for 3 years, i.e., November 2022 – October, 2025. During the current financial year 2024-25, CED (Tamil Nadu) has trained around 1200 candidates and hopeful of achieving 1500 candidates by March, 2025. It has been maintaining a 100% success rate in the placement.

For additional information / clarification: Ms .S. Ramani, Centre Manager (95008 77119) / Ms.P.Bhagavathi Rani, Project Coordinator (63748 90906)

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5. Usilampatti Development Centre (UDC)

CED (Tamil Nadu) has established a Development Division, under the name and style, “Usilampatti Development Centre (UDC)” to work on the socio-economic development initiatives to be undertaken in the backward Usilampatti region of Madurai District of Tamil Nadu. Several social workers, retired bureacrats, teachers, professors and other professionals have joined as volunteers in UDC. We have successfully implemented the several development initiatives through this CED-UDC and I am listing the initiatives implemented till November 30^th during 2024-25 financial year:

a. Job Fair:

CED (Tamil Nadu) is mobilizing more than 1000 diploma and ITI holders for their innovative training-cum-placement programme under their EGF sponsored CSR project, “Royal Enfield Academy for Technical Skills” which is housed in the Rrase college of engineering campus at Padappai, Chennai.Therefore, CED (Tamil Nadu) has deputed the CSR project team to all the job fairs conducted under the aegis of Directorate of Employment and Training, Government of Tamil Nadu in the different districts of the State.The job fair is a familiar idea.

It joined with Equitas Trust, an extended arm of Equitas Bank to conduct a major job fair on August 10, 2024 at PMT College.It attracted as many as 300 unemployed graduates, post graduates, diploma holders and others and nearly 150 persons received offer letters from different employing organizations.

Mr.Aiyappan, Usilampatti MLA participated in the event as the Chief Guest and inaugurated the job fair.Thiru Chinnan Aiya of PKM Trust, Dr. R. Jayaraman, Managing Trustee, CED (Tamil Nadu) and Dr.Jothirajan, Principal of the PMT College felicitated the job aspirants.Elaborate arrangements had been done by Mr.Gunasekaran, Mr.Raja and Mr.Prabhu from Equitas Trust, Dr.V.Mohanram of CED – UDC, Dr.Ponnuram of PMT College, Mr. Prem, President of Usilampatti Lions Club and Mr.Tamil Oli Tamilarasan.

b. Desiltation of Rural Tanks in Usilampatti region:

UDC had identified as many as 9 rural tanks for desiltation in this region.

Desiltation of water bodies in Usilampatti Region
Proposed water body (Oorani/ tank) identified for desiltation
S.No	Name of the Water body	Village Panchayat	Name of the Union
1	Panthani	Pasukaranpatti	Chellampatti
2	Sirupatti Kanmai	Sirupatti	Chellampatti
3	Uppidarpatti Kanmai	Upidarpatti	Usilampatti
4	A Krishnapuram	Krishnapuram	Usilampatti
5	Chinnakulam	Annaiyur	Chellampatti
6	Periyakulam	Annaiyur	Chellampatti
7	Katkatampatti Kanmai	Katkatampatti	Usilampatti
8	Sadachipatti Kanmai	Sadachipatti	Usilampatti
9	Chinnakulam	Pappapatti	Chellampatti

Usilampatti Lions Club joined as a partner in this noble task.With the available funds, UDC and Lions Club, Usilampatti could desilt 3 water bodies as marked as yellow. Exanora supported us by providing the desilting vehicle and funds were used only for fuel and driver expenses and other miscellaneous expenses.CED (Tamil Nadu) provided a financial assistance of Rs.75,000/- to Mr.Premkumar, President of the Usilampatti Lions Club for the desiltation work.This was formally inaugurated by Thiru. Aiyappan, Honourable Member of the Usilampatti Constituency.

School Students Competitions:

School Students Competitions amongst the students of Government, Government Aided and Kallar Reclamation Schools were conducted successfully. Competitions were conducted for two categories of students, i.e., Junior category for the IX and X Standard students and Senior category for the XI and XII Standard students.

7 competitions were organized as detailed below:

Essay competition (Senior – XI and XII students)
Essay competition (Junior – IX and X students)
Elocution in English competition (Senior – XI and XII students)
Elocution in English competition (Junior – IX and X students)
Elocution in Tamil competition (Senior – XI and XII students)
Elocution in Tamil competition (Junior – IX and X students)
General Knowledge competition

3 prizes were announced for each category. The first prize has carried Rs.3,000/- and a trophy, the second prize has carried Rs.2,000/- and a trophy and the third prize has carried Rs.1,000/- and a trophy. All the winners and participants were given Certificate of Appreciation / Participation.

People hailing from Usilampatti and who have grown in their profession and business liberally contributed for the trophy, prize money and certificates. They are:

Thiru. M. Madhan, Retired Chief Engineer, TNEB
Thiru. Ganesh Natarajan, S/o.VKC Natarajan, IAS, Madurai
Mrs. Amutha Jayaraja, Panneerkundu
Dr.D.Balamurali, M.S., Surgeon, Usilampatti
Dr.Saibabu Sundarapandian, M.Tech., MBA, Ph.D. Pollucare Engineers India Pvt.Ltd.,Chennai
Thiru. Arun C Bharath, IRS, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Pune

Dr.Saibabu Sundarapandian sponsored prizes for two competitions.

Around 500 students from the 29 schools of the above said categories participated in the competitions and the 21 winners were awarded the trophy and cash prize by the sponsors and dignitaries who attended the function.

The event was originally scheduled on September 07, 2024 and subsequently as permitted by Government, it was held on November 09, 2024 at the Meeting Hall situated opposite to Usilampatti New Bus Stand. Dr.S.Sudalaimuthu, Former Vice Chancellor of Karaikudi Alagappa University and Coimbatore Karpagam Deemed University was the Chief Guest and Dr.M.Rajia Kodi, Former Registrar, Madurai Kamaraj University and Er.A. Arivazhagan, Past District Governor, Lions International participated as Guest of Honour. Dr.R.Jayaraman, Managing Trustee, CED (Tamil Nadu) presided over the event.

The Tamil Oli TV, Usilampatti and Usilampatti Lions Club joined CED (Tamil Nadu) as co-organizers of the event. The event was well covered by the media. The photographs and media clippings are attached.

d. Tree Plantation around Panthanikanmai:

Thiru. Arun C Bharath, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Pune is very much interested in the rural development and committed to assist any activity for developing the rural infrastructure, such as, desiltation of rural tanks to store the rain water and excess river water coming through the supply channel and tree plantation around the water body to strengthen the banks of the water bodies.He could motivate institutions and people to contribute tree saplings at concessional rate from Isha Foundation, the local panchayat deputed the 100 day workers for the planting of tree saplings work and CED (Tamil Nadu) extended financial contribution to the local coordinator for his expenses.

A formal function was organized to mark the tree plantation work around the Panthanikanmai on Friday, November 29, 2024 in the presence of Rotary District 3000 Governor Prof. Raja Govindasamy. More than 250 tree saplings were planted and the villages in good number participated in the event.

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6. Advanced Computer Training in Cyber Security and Data Privacy conducted in association with SkillsDA, Chennai and sponsored by NASSCOM Foundation:

CED (Tamil Nadu) is a State level Entrepreneurship Development Institution established in May,1990 and over a period of 34 years it has been implementing a variety of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development initiatives. As far as the current activities are concerned, CED (Tamil Nadu) is implementing the flagship schemes of Government of India implemented through the different ministries, such as, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Science and Technology, MSME, Rural Development and Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

CED (Tamil Nadu) is implementing a major CSR project funded by Eicher Group Foundation for the past 4 years with a mandate to mobilize, provide one month free technical training and arrange jobs to 1000 diploma holders in the automobile sector every year. It has the training centre at Padappai, Chennai and till date it has created around 4000 jobs over a period of 4 years through this centre.

Now, CED (Tamil Nadu) has partnered with SkillsDA, a Centre for Advanced Training at Chennai to provide training courses in emerging technologies, such as Cyber Security, Certified Data Protection Officer, Business Process Management and Banking Financial Services and Insurance. Cyber Security will be an integral part of the 3 courses, i.e., CDPA, BPM and BFSI. It is a Free Technical Training Programme offered for the first time in Madurai.

NASSCOM Foundation has mandated SkillsDA to train 1000 candidates in emerging technologies in the 4 States of South India and CED (Tamil Nadu) is providing FREE training to 250 candidates in Madurai.

The inaugural event was held on September 12, 2024 at MADITSSIA Hall. It was jointly organized by MADITSSIA and CED (Tamil Nadu). The Free Technical Courses sponsored by NASSCOM Foundation were formally launched by Dr. PTR. Palanivel Thiagarajan, Honourable Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, Government of Tamil Nadu.

The salient features of this training-cum-placement programme were explained by Mr. Kottaram Ramesh, CEO of SkillsDA and Ms. M. Geetha, Senior Manager of NASSCOM Foundation. The participants were felicitated by Mr. Thirumurugan Subburaj, Director and Centre Head, HCL Tech, Madurai. Dr. R. Jayaraman earlier welcomed the participants and Mr. Rm. Lakshminarayanan, President, MADITSSIA proposed a vote of thanks.

A total number of 210 candidates enrolled in the free technical courses which are conducted at CED (Tamil Nadu), Madurai. The breakup of candidates from different institutions is listed below:

Batch No.	Institution sponsored the candidates	Profile of the candidates	Number of candidates
1.	Madurai Kamaraj University College Madurai	Final year students of MCA, M.Sc. (Computer Science), B.Sc. (Computer Science) and B.Sc. (IT) and also 4 engineering graduates	50
2.	Lady Doak College, Madurai	Final year students of MCA, M.Sc. (Computer Science), B.Sc. (Computer Science) and B.Sc. (IT)	50
3.	Mangayarkarasi College of Arts and Science, Madurai	Final year students of M.Com. (CA) and M.Sc. (Computer Science)	60
4.	Ultra College of Engineering Madurai	Final year students of B.E. (Computer Science and ECE)	50
Total no. of candidates enrolled in the free technical courses on cyber security and data privacy			210

The technical and soft skill training for all the 4 batches is in good progress and the candidates are expected to undergo the assessment during January / February, 2025 and thereafter to take up the placement at Chennai. M/s.SkillsDA, our partner institution has lined up the employing companies.

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