COWE achieves NIMSME partner institute status

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SME Times News Bureau | 18 May, 2013
Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE), a non-profit organization, has achieved National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME) partner institute status.

"We are happy to have achieved this status," declared COWE President Mrs.P. Soudhamini in a press statement.

The NGO conducted 8 Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programs for unemployed in different trades for 240 candidates. "Most of the participants are well qualified and are keen to setup their own enterprise," it added.

The 240 successful candidates are given away their certificates today by Chief Guest M.Chandrashekar Reddy, Director General, NIMSME.

Speaking on the occasion Reddy said NIMSME trained 30,000 unemployed youth in skill development during the year 2012-13 and 18,000 during 2011-12 in more than 168 trades.

"NIMSME since its inception in 1960 by the Government of India, has taken gigantic strides to become the premier institution for the promotion, development and modernization of the SME sector," he said.

NIMSME is an autonomous arm of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which strives to achieve its avowed objectives through a gamut of operations ranging from training, consultancy, research and education, to extension and information services,"

Ministry of MSME has set up three National level Entrepreneurship Development Institutes to undertake the task of entrepreneurship and skill development on a regular basis.

NIMSME had been providing entrepreneurship and skill development training to the first generation entrepreneurs and helping and supporting them in the establishment of their enterprises.