2 800 entrepreneurs ''created'' in Bengal over 5 years claims

Gujarat-based institute
    Kolkata, Feb 18 (PTI) A Gujarat-based organisation has
claimed that it helped "create" over 2,800 entrepreneurs in
West Bengal in the last five years, of which 1,270 were
females.
    The institute "boosted rural livelihood and
employment" under the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship
Programme (SVEP), a sub-scheme of the Centre's National Rural
Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
    "We have created over 2,800 entrepreneurs in six
blocks of West Bengal in the last five years. Of them, 1,270
are female, 1,569 are male and one is transgender," the
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) said in
a release.
    The institute also claimed that in the last five
years, it has promoted "over 27,400 entrepreneurs in 42 blocks
across 11 states".
    "Micro-enterprises constitute a significant proportion
of the existing unregistered enterprises in the country. The
purpose of SVEP is to bring a majority of these micro-
enterprises in the main stream and assist them in funding
their business model, which can generate rural employment,"
EDII Director Sunil Shukla said. PTI BSM
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