Hyderabad, May 18 (KNN)  The Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE) a non-profit organization has joined hands with National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME) to serve as a partner institute.
 
"We are happy to have achieved this status," declared COWE President P Soudhamini in a press statement.

COWE works towards building an economically empowered women force.
 
The NGO recently conducted eight entrepreneurship skill development programmes for 240 unemployed candidates in different trades. On completion, all the candidates received certificates from the Director General, NIMSME, M Chandrashekar Reddy.
 
According to the press release, most of the participants were well qualified and keen to setup their own enterprise. 
 
Speaking on the occasion Reddy explained that NIMSME had 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 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. (KNN)