Bhubaneshwar, Jul 18 (KNN)  In order to promote entrepreneurship in the state, the Odisha Government has set up a four-member committee to formulate the Entrepreneurship Development Policy.

"The role of entrepreneurship is not confined to only creation of enterprises but encompasses developing capacity to produce wealth, job and income which are direct indication of economic development. Considering the importance of the entrepreneurship, the government is pleased to decide to go for the state Entrepreneurship Development Policy," said a media report quoting a notification from the state MSME department. 

The policy will address issues such as awareness, promotion, and skill development, networking and mentoring of target groups. 

The panel includes Secretary, Department of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Additional Development Commissioner (MSME), Government of India, Director General, National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, Noida and Director of Industries as its members.

Earlier last month, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while addressing a sensitisation programme on developing entrepreneurship said, “My government would bring out an entrepreneurship development policy which will focus on individuals with an expectation that they would become entrepreneurs. The policy may encompass multiple stages in the emergence of an enterprise from pre-start to stabilisation and growth.”

According to him, the State Government has conceived the idea of sensitising the youth at grassroots level.

Under the entrepreneurship development programme, Patnaik said, sensitisation and motivational camps for youth would be organised in each block and urban local body in a time bound manner to spell out the importance of entrepreneurship. (KNN)