Rao, B Sudhakar <br/><br/>
Rural industries Programme : An Evaluation 

 - New Delhi  Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Ltd  2003 
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<br/><br/> The rural industrialization is an important strategy for employment generation and poverty alleviation. However, several government sponsored  programmes in this regard have fallen sort of expectations due to a variety of shortcomings such as improper direction of subsidies , over emphasis on  targets, unscientific methods in selecting and compensating the programme implementing agencies.Promotional institutions and development authories ought to know how these shortcomings could be tackled. The present book, which evalutes tha nation wide Rural Industries Programme (RiP) sponsored by small Industry Development Bank of india (SIDBI),seek to provide comprehensive reading material for them. It points out that a comprehensive package of enterprise promotion service-including identification of prospective entrepreneurial and functional skill to take up self employment ventures, identification of viable projects and counseling, professional support in project preparation, linking up with financial institutions and establishing market linkages leading to the building up of enterprise viability-is the only answer to the challenges in accomplishing rural industrialization. 
<br/><br/>Contents :\<br/> <br/>Introduction, <br/>Profile of RIP, <br/>Implementing Agencies—An Assessment, Regional Development Centre (RDC)—An Assessment, Support Team of RIP (STR)—An Assessment, <br/>SIDBI: Review and Lending Institutions A Discussion, <br/>Case Studies, <br/>Looking to the Future.<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>8171416500 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label> Allied Informatics, Jaipur 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.095 4  / RAO