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The Scheme envisages to create a corps of suitably trained multidisciplinary Barefoot Managers/ Small enterprise management assistants out of unemployed non-technical graudates with the twin objectives of

1. Making readily available to the SSI units suitably trained Management Assistants
2. Open up employment avenues for graduates particularly from non-technical streams

The Scheme will be implemented by reputed NGOs/ VOs/ Management Institutes and monitored by SIDO with the help of its field setup and State Governments. This Scheme will also be implemented through autonomous training institutes of SIDO and Central/ State Governments.

The assistance envisaged in the Scheme is one time capital grant not exceeding Rs 3 lakhs per benficiary NGOs etc for procuring the key inputs of training infrastructure like training aids/ equipments, computers, data base, library etc and for recurring grant assistance at the rate not exceeding Rs 1500 per trainee or Rs 30,000 per batch of 20 trainees per benefiary Association/ NGOs.