Edp in Gujarat

Entrepeneur Development Programmes in gujarat

Defenations
Entrepreneur:
Entrepreneur is defined as a person in effective control of commercial undertaking one who undertakes business or an enterprise. Entrepreneur is an innovative person who maximizes his profits by following new strategies or ventures into new products or services.

Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is the process of the entrepreneur. It is an attempt to create value through recognition of business

The center for Entrepreneurship development (Government of Gujarat organisation)

CED established in the year 1979 Director for Ced - Shri Narendra Modi CED conducts EDP’s per year in the state and develops entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurship development programmes are of different modules: EDP module 1: (1) Duration of this module is four weeks and programmes is non-residential. This programmes are conducted at cities like Ahmedabad,Baroda,surat,Rajkot,Bhavnagar and other districts (Taluka H.Q as well as other potential Centre of the state. (2) for urban – urban M-1

EDP Module -2: (1) Duration of this module is two weeks and programme is non-residential. Mainly conducted at respective pockets of SC/ST and rural group to promote micro-enterprise/service sector/self employment. (2) For rural-Rural M-2 (3) For schedule caste – component M-2 (4) For schedule Tribe – Tribal M-2

Entrepreneur development programmes in Gujarat Introduction: Gujarat is all set to move along the path of development and is been increasingly considered to be one of the leading industrial states in India. Its manufacturing sector is constantly growing with the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector playing a significant role in shaping the manufacturing sector and taking it to towering heights. Good governance is believed to be the key to success. The delivery of service is efficient and the understanding of technology is excellent and this has enabled Gujarat to position itself as a fast growing industrial state. Its one of the most prospering sectors is indeed gems and jewellery. It is notable that Gujarat stands at the second position in the production of gold and also contributes largely to the country's total jewellery production. It accounts for about 85% which is remarkable. It is known to be the hub of diamond processing as 8 out of every 10 diamonds is polished in Surat. This is the reason it is popularly called the 'Diamond Capital of the World'. In the world share, it contributes 72 percent and in the Indian market, it occupies a share of 80 percent.

Current GSDP of Gujarat is US$ 60.60 billion. Gujarat has set the highest growth target of 11.2 per cent for 11th Five Year Plan, while GSDP Growth (2006-2007) has been 15.81 per cent. Tertiary sector is the highest contributor to GSDP while manufacturing sector is a key driver of Gujarat's economy. Per capita income of Gujarat (2006-2007) is US$ 705, higher than the national average (US$ 627.2). It has 42 functional ports including one major port at Kandla and a couple of minor ports. It is the maiden state to go for the privatization of ports. It has a 1600 km long coastline, the longest in the country. The state boasts of a fantastic network of air, rail and road. Agriculture
Gujarat is the main producer of tobacco, cotton, and groundnuts in India. Other major food crops produced are rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize, tur, and gram. Gujarat has an agricultural economy; the total crop area amounts to more than one-half of the total land area.
Animal husbandry and dairying have played a vital role in the rural economy of Gujarat. Dairy farming, primarily concerned with milk production, functions on a cooperative basis and has more than a million members. Gujarat is the largest producer of milk in India.Amul milk co-operative federation products are well known all over India and is Asia's biggest dairy.[7]Among livestock raised are buffalo and other cattle, sheep, and goats. As per the results of livestock census 1997, there were 209.70 lakh livestock in Gujarat state. As per the estimates of the survey of major livestock products, during the year 2002–03 the Gujarat produced 6.09 million tonnes of milk, 385 million eggs and 2.71 million kg of wool. Gujarat also contributes inputs to industries like textiles, oil and soap.
Chemicals
Gujarat contribute about 58 per cent to national production of chemicals (2005-2006). it is the highest contributor to total national production of petrochemical products. Its chemicals and petrochemicals industry account for 60.3 per cent of state’s total industrial production. It has over 3,12,782 registered Small Scale Industrial (SSI) units focusing on production of chemicals (March 2007). It is the highest producer of major chemicals, including alkali, g p j , g , and organic, inorganic, pesticides, dyes and dyestuff. It has 1,867 factories manufacturing chemical products employing over 0.8 million people (2004-2005). Major companies in Gujarat are Reliance Industries, Nirma, Lanxess ABS Ltd., Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd. (GACL), Gujarat State Fertilizer Company (GSFC) etc.

Gems and Jewellery
It contributes 90 per cent of total diamonds processed in India and has around 10,000 units in Surat. Eight out of 10 diamonds in the world are polished in Surat. It is the world’s second largest producer of gold jewellery. It has the largest5 contribution to the total national jewellery of almost 85 percent. The state boasts of its highest labour productivity in the jewellery sector in India. The palce is worldwide popular for production of unique hand-made silverents (85 per cent of total silver jewellery production of India). It contributed 80 per cent to national diamond exports (2004-2005). it laso has some of the most popular institutions such as Indian Diamond Institute, Gujarat Hira Bourse, Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council.
Mines and Minerals
Vast reserves of limestone, bauxite and natural gas have enabled the mineral-based industry in Gujarat to flourish. Today, this sector accounts for 12.4 per cent of the total sales by industries in the state. Processed minerals such as kaolin, chalk, fire clay, bentonite, silica sand are consumed by glass, ceramic, plastic, paint and rubber industries, which are mostly small-scale in nature. Gujarat's advantage lies not just in the availability of raw materials but infrastructure, skilled manpower and natural gas.

Mining clusters have flourished in Junagadh, Kutch, Bharuch, Vadodara and Mehsana districts and small-scale entrepreneurs have made major inroads into the processing of mineral resources. They export low-grade bauxite, cement clinker, decorative and dimension stones (e.g. marble, granite, sandstone) to south Asian markets.

The State Government has been actively promoting the development of clusters within this sector. The idea behind it is to promote new businesses, which will process these raw materials and develop products that will fetch a better price in international markets.
Textiles
It is the highest contributor of man-made fibre (31 per cent) and man-made filament yarn (38 per cent) in the country. It contributes 12 per cent to national textile exports; over 40 per cent of country’s art-silk fabric produced at Surat. Over 35 per cent of fabric comes from organised sector and 25 per cent fabric from the decentralised power loom sector is from Gujarat. Gujarat is Asia’s largest denim producer ( Arvind Mills).

It has the ighest number of state-owned looms for cotton and man-made fibre (6,888 as on March 31, 2006); and second-highest number of privately owned looms (11,963 as on March 31, 2006). ith as approximately 3 million spindles in the cotton/ man made fibre mills
Agro and food processing
Agro and food processing sector has a significant share in national production of principal crops. It has the highest production of groundnut (3.39 MT), cotton ( 6.77 MT) and the second highest production of onion (2.13 MT0. It has a strong marketing network and its annual average growth rate 24.11 per cent (2001-2005). It has nearly 204 market committees, 193 main yards and 207 sub-market yards. The state has significant number of well established food processing units with 3,700 small scale industrial units. There are around1,875 working factories and 150 large and medium scale units.
Dairy sector
Gujarat has 13 district milk producers unions and a vast network of 12,991 milk cooperative societies having 2.5 million members. Its total milk production is around18.97 million litres per day. National Dairy Development Board (Anand) is involved in promoting, financing and supporting milk distribution organizations in India.Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) a cooperative dairy giant, sells Amul and Sagar brands of dairy products through 5,00,000 unorganised retailers and 3,000 distributors. GCMMF has clocked a turnover of US$ 1.05 billion during fiscal 2006-2007 to become the first billion dollar cooperative in India.
Engineering and Auto
It contributes 15 per cent of total industrial production in and over 9 per cent to national engineering output to GSDP It has an average annual growth rate of 15 per cent. It has more than 600 medium and large sector units and over 75,000 small scale units and 30 engineering product clusters. Kutch is the third-largest steel hub in the world Brass parts cluster at Jamnagar has over 5,000 small units and meets the entire requirement for brass parts in India. General Motors has set up its automotive manufacturing facilities in Gujarat giving boost to ancillary industry.

Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
Gujarat accounts for 28 per cent of national pharmaceutical production (2006-2007). It is the first state to manufacture APIs and finished dosage forms. It has 902 allopathic manufacturing units and 2,122 contract manufacturing units. Gujarat accounts for exports worth US$ 1.4 billion (2006-2007). It has the maximum number of clinical research organizations in India. Its academic and research institutions provide over 4,600 technically-skilled manpower per annum. India’s largest biotech park of 700 acres is being developed at Savli, Vadodara.

Major companies in gujarat:
ABB
Asea Boveri Brown (ABB) is a global leader in power and automation technology that enables utility and industry customers to improve performance while reducing environmental impact. ABB's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Vadodara is a global sourcing base for outdoor and indoor circuit breakers. The ABB Group operates in 100 countries. In India it has a vast installed base, extensive local manufacturing and a countrywide marketing and service presence. ABB posted revenues of US$ 327 million in 2003.

Aditya Birla Group
It is the 11th largest cement producer in the world, seventh-largest, in Asia. It is one of the Fortune 500 companies of AB Group, one of world’s largest aluminium rolling companies. Also, it is one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia and at the same time the third-largest producer of insulators. It is among the fastest growing copper companies in Asia. It has 10 manufacturing units across Gujarat (highest).

AT&T India
AT&T India, a subsidiary of AT&T, USA, is based in Gujarat since 1984. The company has established a brand name in the telecom services sector. It offers networking and communication equipment to telecom operators. In collaboration with the Aditya V Birla Group, AT&T operates Idea Cellular in Gujarat. AT&T is a three-time winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the US, and winner of Japan's Deming Prize and Taiwan's National Quality Award.

Adani Group
Established in 1988, it is the largest trading house in India, leading trader in coal, wheat, castor oil, petroleum, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), power trading, iron-ore and pulses. It has a well developed natural gas distribution network. It has established India’s largest edible oil refinery in the State. it is also involved in development of Mundra Port second port to be privatised in Gujarat. It has proposed the establishment of multipurpose port at Mundra, in JV with Petronet LNG.

Bayer
Bayer AG, the German chemical giant, is a Fortune 500 company with global sales of US$ 33 billion. Represented by 350 companies across five continents, it has a total workforce of I 15,400 people. Its business operations are the responsibility of the subgroups - Bayer HealthCare AG, Bayer CropScience AG and Bayer Material Science AG. In Gujarat, the company operates through Bayer CropScience Ltd, Bayer Diagnostics India Ltd and Bilag Industries Private Ltd.

Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, a subsidiary of Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany, was established in 1975. The company provides comprehensive drive and control solutions in industrial and mobile applications through hydraulics, electric drives and controls, linear drives and guides, pneumatics. The company has close to 300 employees and recorded total sales of US$ 23 million in 2003. Its facility at Ahmedabad manufactures hydraulic valves, pumps, blocks, cylinders and power units. Bosch has sales offices, service centres and training centres in Ahmedabad serving customers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

British Gas
British Gas is a leading player in the global energy market. In India, the company has a majority shareholding (65 per cent) in Gujarat Gas Company Ltd. The company's principal lines of business are natural gas distribution, transmission systems, compressed natural gas (CNG), gas supplies and natural gas.
E.I. Dupont
Dupont India became a wholly owned subsidiary of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company Inc., USA, in 1994. The company has invested close to US$ 80 million in India and manufactures Tynex toothbrush bristles, Teflon non-stick coating, engineering polymers, crop protection products and pioneer seeds. The company's facility in Savli, Gujarat, manufactures crop protection products and engineering polymers.

Essar Group
It is a diversified business group with enterprise value over US$ 20 billion. Its business portfolio includes steel, energy, power, communication, shipping and logistics and construction. Its business operation locations are Mumbai, Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Hazira, Vadinar), Vishakhapatnam. It is the largest producer of sponge iron and also largest exporter of flat steel products (Steel plants in Gujarat Hazira, Vishakhapatnam). It focuses on global expansion with projects in Canada, USA, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia,

GE Plastics India Ltd (GEPIL)
GE Plastics India Ltd is a 50:50 joint venture between Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL) and General Electric Plastics BV, Netherlands. The company has a world-class plant for advanced engineering plastics, alloys, blends and compounds at Vadodara in Gujarat. With a present capacity of 25,000 tonnes per annum, it manufactures a wide range of GE's proprietary products. In 1996, GEPIL also became the first global manufacturing site of General Electric Plastics to start manufacturing GELON* (Polyamide-6) compounds.

General Motors India
Founded in 1908, GM is the world’s largest auto maker. In 2006, it sold 9.1 million cars and trucks globally. It is the global industry sales leader for 76 years and has employee strength of 2,84,000 people around the world. Headquartered in Detroit (USA), GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries. General Motors India, incorporated in 1994, became a fully owned subsidiary of GM in 1999. It has 45,000 Sq. Mt. plants in Halol (Panchmahal), Gujarat; it produces Opel Corsa, Corsa Sail, Chevrolet Optra, and Chevrolet Tavera.

Grasim Industries Ltd
Grasim Industries Ltd, incorporated in 1947, originally a textile manufacturer, successfully diversified into Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) cement, sponge iron and chemicals. The first phase of Grasim's fourth VSF plant was commissioned in Kharach, Gujarat, in 1996. It is now a global leader in VSF, the country's largest merchant producer of sponge iron and the second-largest caustic soda maker in India and poised to be India's largest cement manufacturer.

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat and one of India's largest food products marketing organizations. With about 2.28 million producer members, its total milk handling capacity is about 6.7 million litres per day. The company has a wide range of products under its flagship brand Amul. These include milk and milk products, ice creams, chocolates, confectioneries and beverages. The company achieved a total turnover of about US$ 575 million during 2002-03, recording a growth of 15 per cent over the previous year.

Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd (GACL)
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd is India's leading manufacturer and exporter of cement. It is also India's most profitable cement company and the world's least cost cement producer. GACL is the only cement company to be awarded the National Quality Award and the first Indian cement company to receive an ISO 9002 quality certification.

Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd
Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd operates in three business segments: fertilizer products, caprolactam and nylon products. It also manufactures nylon-6, nylon filament yarn, nylon chips and melamine and polymer products.

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd (GNFCL)
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd is a joint venture company between GSFC and the Gujarat Government. GNFC has the largest fuel-based ammonia plant in the world. It is also the largest single stream urea plant to be commissioned in the world. This project was set with an investment of about US$ 100 million at Bharuch, Gujarat.

Huber Chemicals India Ltd
Huber Chemicals India Ltd is a subsidiary of JM Huber Corp, Germany. It is in the chemicals and engineering business and has a facility at Jhagadia, an industrial estate in Bharuch, Gujarat.

Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd (IRIL)
Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd was established in 1926. The company has interests in fields of air solutions and infrastructure. IRIL has a plant in Naroda, near Ahmedabad. The Naroda facility is ISO 9001 certified and caters to a major chunk of the global demand for air-cooled reciprocating air compressors (T 30). The metrology laboratory at this facility is one of the few sophisticated laboratories in India with facilities to conduct tests as per ISI/BSI standards.

Lalbhai Group
The Lalbhai Group, founded in 1908 has grown to become one of India's most diversified business houses, with a significant presence in the textiles, ready-to-wear, agro-chemicals and telecom industries. Arvind Mills Ltd, one of the Group companies, is one of the world's largest producers of denim fabric. Atul Ltd is a leading manufacturer and exporter of over 500 high quality products, including agrochemicals, bulk drugs and bulk drug intermediates, cresols and cresol derivatives, dyes and dye intermediates, epoxy resins and epoxy hardeners, formaldehyde, specialty chemicals and wood adhesives.

Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T)
Larsen & Toubro Ltd is one of India's largest engineering and construction companies. The company has its heavy engineering workshops at Hazira, which manufactures reactors, pressure vessels, columns and heat exchangers for various industries. L&T's workshops are ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996 and OHSAS 18001:1999 certified.

Matsushita
Matsushita of Japan is a leader in battery products worldwide. In India, Matsushita has a joint venture with the Lakhanpal Group. The company manufactures batteries and battery appliances under the brand Novato and its plant is located at Makarpura Industrial Estate, Vadodara, in Gujarat.

Nirma
Nirma, a US$ 351 million company, is another of Gujarat's success stories. It is the largest detergent manufacturer in India. It has a sales force of over 3, 50,400 distributors, over 1 million retailers, and 300 million consumers. Its product line includes cosmetics, soaps, detergents and salt. The company has multi-locational integrated manufacturing facilities and a broad product portfolio under its umbrella brand, Nirma. It manufactures India's largest selling detergent powder and exports to the Middle East and other countries. The company has planned backward and forward integration projects and is focusing on a strong R&D base for continuous product development.

Novartis India Ltd
Novartis India Ltd is a US$ 100 million company that employs close to 1,000 people. The company has two manufacturing facilities, at Kandla and Panoliplant in Gujarat dealing mainly in pharmaceuticals and agrochemical intermediates. In India, Novartis has collaborations with several domestic players, including Dr Reddy's, Torrent and Biocon.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
Reliance Industries Ltd. is India’s largest and only private sector company to feature in Fortune Global 500 list of World. Having annual earnings of over US$ 25 billion (2006-2007), it has manufacturing facilities at three places in Gujarat namely Naroda, Jamnagar and Hazira. Its product line mainly includes synthetic textiles, fabrics, fibre intermediates, plastics, polyester, chemicals and petrochemicals. Its proposed establishment of Petroleum and Petrochemicals SEZ at Jamnagar is worth (US$ 1.1 billion).

Royal Dutch Shell
The Shell Group is a world leader in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business. In Gujarat, Shell's Hazira project is the largest of its ventures in India with investment over US$ 600 million. The company's operation at Hazira is considered to be the highest ever FDI in a Greenfield project in India. The project includes a port and an LNG terminal together with infrastructure that can handle 5 million metric tonnes of LNG per annum.

Rasna
Rasna holds 93 per cent market share in Indian soft drink concentrate market. It accounts for 82 per cent of in-house consumption of soft drink market and also has a wide range of products in processed foods category.

Siemens Ltd
Siemens Ltd is a 54.6 per cent subsidiary of Siemens AG. Based in Ahmedabad, the subsidiary manufactures electrical equipment, medical equipment, railway signaling equipment, telecom and data communication equipment and a host of other electrical products. The company has over 4,000 employees and revenue of over US$ 315 million.

Torrent Group
Torrent Group's flagship Torrent Pharmaceuticals established its first manufacturing facility at Vatva in Gujarat in 1980. Its second plant began operations in 1989 in Mehsana district. These facilities manufacture bulk drugs and formulations. The manufacturing facilities have received ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18000 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) certifications and the IDMA (Indian Drug Manufacturing Association) Gold Award for the year 2002.

Tata Chemicals Limited
An ISO-9001 /14001 certified company; Tata Chemicals Limited is India's leading manufacturer and marketer of inorganic chemicals and fertilizers. Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals operates India's largest manufacturing facility for soda ash at its integrated chemical complex at Mithapur on the Gujarat coast in Western India and is also among the world's largest producers of synthetic Soda Ash. Its range of chemicals produced at the Gujarat plant includes - apart from soda ash - caustic soda, salt, cement, sodium bicarbonate, bromine and bromine based compounds and gypsum. The plant has an installed capacity of 875,000 tonnes of soda ash, nearly 35 per cent of the country's capacity.

The 'avoid, reduce and recycle' philosophy that the company follows is exemplified best at its cement plant at Mithapur. The company is also a signatory to Responsible Care, a voluntary global initiative of the Chemical industry that demonstrates allegiance to safety, health and environmental issues. Mithapur has won the highest British Safety Council 5-star rating. The company has also developed the Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat for thousands of migratory birds and is pioneering marine conservation efforts through its active participation and support of the Whale Shark project.

Welspun It has presence across 50 countries and its business activities include home textiles, saw pipes and steel, specialty texturized polyester yarn, bathrobes and retail. It is among top two terry towel producers and largest manufacturers of specialty polyester filament. It is also among the largest SAW pipe manufacturers in Asia.