Self-employment is not a consolation prize. For many people in Jharkhand it is the most realistic route to a decent income, and it needs its own support system.
A person can be an excellent tailor and still fail as a tailoring business. Pricing, finding customers, managing working capital and surviving the gap between doing the work and being paid for it are separate skills, and almost nobody teaches them.
Most enterprise support is a business-plan template and a loan referral. That is not support. What actually decides whether a small enterprise survives is the first customer, the cash-flow gap, and whether there is anyone to ask when something goes wrong.
We pressure-test what you want to build against real local demand before you spend money on it.
Costing, pricing, record-keeping and the paperwork that unlocks banking and credit.
Market linkage is where we spend most effort, because the first sale is the hardest one.
Mentorship and peer support through the first twelve to eighteen months, which is the real test.
We are early. No enterprise has yet been launched out of this programme, and we will name each one here as it starts trading rather than describe businesses that do not exist. The photographs on this page are illustrative and will be replaced with our own programme photography.
Small-batch production, local retail and job work, often run from home.
Electrical, appliance and equipment repair businesses serving a local catchment.
Processing, aggregation and input supply built around existing rural activity.
Skilled trades scaling from daily wage work into small contracting operations.
Traditional craft skills connected to markets that pay what the work is worth.
Data, design, printing and digital services with low capital requirements.
Bring us the idea, however rough. We will tell you honestly what it would take.
