Course Content
Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship: Concept and Process
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Innovations in Business
Innovations in Business: Types of Innovations, Creating and Identifying Opportunities, Screening of Business Ideas
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Business Plan and Feasibility Analysis
Business Plan and Feasibility Analysis: Concept and Process of Technical, Market, and Financial Analysis
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Role of Government in Promoting SSI
Role of Government in Promoting SSI
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Sickness in Small Industries
Sickness in Small Industries: Reasons and Rehabilitation
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Institutional Finance to Small Industries
Institutional Finance to Small Industries: Financial Institutions, Commercial Banks, Cooperative Banks, Micro Finance.
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Unit X: Entrepreneurship Development

Microfinance services are aimed at providing financial access—particularly small loans, savings, and insurance—to low-income and underserved populations. Among the options:

  • A. Conventional weaker section lending banks: ✅ Yes
    These include public sector banks, regional rural banks (RRBs), and cooperative banks that offer targeted loans to the weaker sections under government-mandated priority sector lending.

  • B. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): ✅ Yes
    MFIs are specialized entities that provide micro-loans and related financial services to the poor, particularly in rural and semi-urban areas.

  • C. Self Help Group (SHG)-Bank Linkage Programme: ✅ Yes
    This is a flagship initiative by NABARD that connects SHGs of the poor with formal banking institutions, allowing them to access credit and savings facilities collectively.