Krishi Bikash Shilpa Kendra, an enterprise under Ministry of MSME, launches national website
Kolkata: Krishi Bikash Shilpa Kendra, an enterprise under the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India, launched here on Wednesday www.kbskenterprisemsme.in the Ministrys national website for unemployed youths of the country.
The website is designed to help and guide them in viewing their futures confidently as entrepreneurs (as alternatives to being salaried persons), first establishing themselves with appropriate skill development programmes, and then preparing themselves for their own start-up ventures, with loans from public sector banks at interest rates which are 2% lower, and the Government of India’s 25% subsidies for them, with the Government of India itself being the guarantor.
Launching this national website, speaking on this occasion, and explaining in detail how www.kbskenterprisemsme.in will help unemployed youths prepare themselves correctly for skill development, and thereafter setting up their own micro, small and medium industrial enterprises were several senior Krishi Bikash Shilpa Kendra spokespersons, Prosenjit Bose, Chairman cum Managing Director, Priyabrata Pramanik, Chief Adviser (National Level), and Ratikanta Dhar, Chief Adviser for West Bengal, Prabir Kumar Dey, Director of Skill and Entrepreneurship (also of Calcutta University), and Amit Chaudhuri, ex-Associate Director, CDAC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
On this occasion, the Krishi Bikash Shilpa Kendra also announced its proposed opening of 100 Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Kendras – as an addition to the 6000 such Kendras already functioning in various parts of the country, and helping ensure to some extent the availability of quality medicines at affordable prices, the very objective of their establishment, and always a major concern of the Government of India. These 6000 Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Kendras operate under the banner of the Bureau of Pharma Public Sector Undertakings of India (BPPI) and under the administrative control of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers, Government of India.
Others present on this occasion included Shri Ashish Kumar Chakraborty, Chief of the BPPI.
(Reporting by Pratibha Singh)
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