An Autonomous society working under Directorate of Industries Government of Maharashtra
Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MCED) is a training institute for common people, who always dream to become an Entrepreneur, to add value to their lifestyle. MCED from the year 1988, created so many successful entrepreneurs in the society, the entrepreneurs were proved such an asset to the society that they not only developed themselves and their family but also they touched too many life’s in the society by helping other to fulfill their dream either by providing them employment or by selflessly motivating them to become entrepreneurs like them.
Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship
Development not only provides the quality entrepreneurship training but also
provides the handholding support to all the trainees unless and until their
dreams become reality.
With some sponsoring agencies like Directorate
Of Industry, District Industry Centre, Department of Science and Technologies,
Ministry Of Textile, National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,
Agricultural Department, Tribal Department, BARTI, Khadi Village Industry
Commission, National Institute of Design, etc. MCED use to provide free quality
training courses to the trainees under different age groups between 18 years to
45 years and with minimum educational qualification of 7th std pass trainees to
Post Graduate trainees as per the requirement of the different sponsoring
agency.
MCED had played a great role in the growth of
Entrepreneurship in all over Maharashtra and this is only possible because MCED
had reached to the people of 8 regions (Amravati, Aurangabad, Nasik, Nanded,
Nagpur, Pune, Mumbai, Kolhapur) and 38 District of Maharashtra with a team of
one Regional Officer for each region and one to two Project Officer for each
district depending about the demographics area of the district along with 5 to
20 Program Organizers which not only helps MCED to study the possibilities of
business in the specific demographic area but also it help to understand the
problem of unemployment faced by people in the specified area and MCED had
played a major role in providing solutions with the quality training and helped
them to become self-reliant.
MCED had a history to work for all target
groups of society and also achieved the SKOCH and Maxell award for creating
entrepreneurship and making self –reliant people in society.
MCED has expert trainers and facilitators
which are more than 1500 in numbers and also have more than 30 certified
trainers from the Entrepreneurship Development Institute Of India (EDII,
Ahmedabad) and NIESBUD. MCED has great packages of training with contents
scrutinized and analyzed from a third party so that the trainees who come with
the wiliness of doing something on the first day will leave the training with a
practical business idea on the last day of the training. The syllabus of
training designed in such a wonderful way that the trainee’s curiosity will
increase to know what next and trainees will get each and everything required
for their business step by step with proper understanding.
There are different course which was taken by MCED in all over Maharashtra from 2 days to 6 months naming Residential
Entrepreneurship Program (REDP), Entrepreneurship Development Program(EDP),
Technical Residential Entrepreneurship Development Program(TREDP), Technical
Entrepreneurship Development Program (TEDP), Organizers Training Program (OTP),
Training of Trainers(ToT), Faculty Development Program (FDP), Seminars,
Workshop, Be an Entrepreneurs Program (BEP), Women Empowerment Programs(WEP),
Exhibitions, etc.
In REDP training MCED provides all the
facilities like lodging and boarding facilities for the trainees along with the
quality training for 18 days, were trainees were allowed to stay in the group
of 30 people, were they get entrepreneurial inputs like Yoga sessions in the
morning, Business Opportunities Searching and Scanning, Government Laws, rules
and regulation, license & business schemes, Achievement Motivational
Training and Project Report Preparation along with Industrial Visits, the
specialty of this training is that each person will get an equal opportunity to
speak or perform activities in front of a group so that even the shiest person
in the group will soon become one of the active groups and start exploring the
opportunities.
The content of the Entrepreneurship
Development Program(EDP) is similar to REDP but the only difference is EDP is
non-residential.
TREDP or TEDP are the technical or more
precisely are the practical quality training program that provides a new
technical or practical and useful skill to the trainee along with the
theoretical training. It can be both residential and non-residential.
FDP or ToT programs are for the development of
trainers were expert trainers will train the faculty or enthusiastic trainer to
become the trainer of MCED in the future.
WEP program focused on women entrepreneurship
and empowerment was a group of women who will get the best quality
entrepreneurial input to become self- reliant.
MCED not only takes sponsored programs but
also takes a non-sponsored program. In this non–sponsored program MCED takes
affordable fees from trainees and provides the best quality training. The
training can be technical (practical) or non-technical(theoretical) according
to the need analysis.
MCED has its monthly magazine called Udyojak
whose special Diwali edition has won Darpan Purskar and many other awards.
Udyojak is also contributing to create awareness regarding entrepreneurship in
society. The content of the magazine was written and edited in the best way by
experts so that each reader of the magazine will get an opportunities to read
inputs from great minds, in this magazine readers will get a full estimation of
different business every month, the magazine contains advertisements of past
trainees, different industries, banks, etc, the magazine contains an article on
trending business ideas. The magazine provides information on all 8 Regional
Offices of MCED along with their address and phone numbers of respected office
and working officials. In March 2020, the monthly magazine has moved to a new
dimension and become a complete four-color magazine which was earlier available
only in black and white except the cover which was in four colors. The monthly
magazine of March 2020 was Special Edition on Women Entrepreneurs. Not only
that Udyojak Magazine has 6000 subscribers in all over Maharashtra and it
provides an open platform to everyone to publish their advertisement in it and
for MCED trainee there is a discount of 10% in the advertisement fees and Udyojak
subscription is also affordable it is available for Rs.500 for one year.
Now MCED has moved very drastically with the
scenario, MCED along with the offline training entered into Online Quality
Training. MCED currently working on Industry 4.0 which came in 2019 and MCED is
striving to set its mark on Industry 4.0.
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