Gandhinagar, Aug 14 (KNN) Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad and CSR Division of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) recently.

Under the MoA, EDII will facilitate New Enterprise Creation among the underprivileged women in the vicinity of NTPC Noida, as per the official statement.

NTPC has taken this initiative as a part of its CSR activity of empowering women and making them entrepreneurial and self-sustaining.

In all, 30 women from self-help groups will be rendered independent and empowered over one year.

EDII implements several programmes for women entrepreneurship and empowerment as a CSR initiative for various corporate houses such as Accenture, HSBC, TATA Communications, Amazon India, Facebook, ONGC, BAYER, HCL, etc.

Thus far, through sensitisation programmes, entrepreneurship competency-building programmes, domain and skill training, networking and marketing exposure, and handholding support, the institute has reached out to more than 39,142 women across the country.

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad was set up in 1983 as an autonomous and not-for-profit Institute with support of apex financial institutions - the IDBI Bank Ltd., IFCI Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India (SBI).  (KNN Bureau)