NSDC and deAsra collaborates to facilitate entrepreneurship support

New Delhi, June 29 (KNN) National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), under the umbrella of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India, has collaborated with deAsra Foundation to nurture and support entrepreneurs.

The association would facilitate training of counselors (termed as 'Udyog Mitras'), who will handhold skill trainees to nurture their entrepreneurial action plan.

The counseling provided by these Udyog Mitras is proposed to help aspirants in exploring new avenues and handholding financial support for enhancing employability.

This would include various aspects of developing a business model, seeking financial guidance, availing services of banks/ agencies for loans and other statutory requirements.

The collaboration would support the establishment of 'Entrepreneurship Support Program', which is intended to equip placement cells of training providers with self-employment/ entrepreneurial assistance for the skilled candidates.

Also, through this partnership, deAsra platforms, tools and knowledge resources such as the deAzzle mobile app, business guides across industries, trackers, templates, checklists and proposed Interactive Kiosks would be accessible to NSDC’s affiliated training centres.

Talking about this collaboration, Manish Kumar, MD & CEO, NSDC said, "NSDC's collaboration with deAsra will help in building capacity of our affiliated training partners to provide entrepreneurial support to their trainees. Business mentoring from experienced counselors will enable aspiring youth to start their own businesses."

Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and MD, deAsra Foundation in a statement added, "We believe our collaboration with NSDC would contribute significantly to the Skill India Mission by creating successful entrepreneurs."