Entrepreneurship Development through Niwar Products among Prisoners of Udaipur
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2013
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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Skill development for prisoner is a process whereby prisoners are able to organize themselves to increase their own self reliance, to assist their independent right to make choices and to control resource which will assist in channelising their energy towards a positive direction. Through this the unemployment problem will be solved by vocational skill training inputs and they will become a successful entrepreneur in future. The present study was undertaken with an objective to explore existing knowledge about niwar among prisoners, development of intervention package for skill development, imparting training among prisoner and assessment of training. A purposive random sample of 30 respondents was selected from “Central jail of Udaipur”, Rajasthan. Data was collected through interview schedule from the respondents. The data was further analyzed by calculating frequency, percentage, and mean percent scores.
The major findings of the investigation revealed that 63.33 per cent respondents belonged to the age group of 31-40, educated up to primary level (66.66%). Ninety per cent respondents were married and had joint family (70%). Evaluation of intervention package showed that mean rating score for the developed booklet ranged from 3.5-4.0 which came in the category of “very good” by panel of experts. The respondents had selected five niwar products namely; Aasan, Curtain, Belt, Bag, and Magazine holder out of ten niwar products for training. There was twelve days training programme and method demonstration was used as a means for imparting the training. The result obtained from skill assessment of prisoners was 95.20 per cent in training session. Regarding market potential of developed niwar products it was reported that the estimated price of the five products ranged from Rs. 40 to 430 and 55 per cent market personnel’s preferred 20 per cent profit. It was also found that prisoner were eager to adopt the value added niwar products as an enterprise.
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Entrepreneurship Development through Niwar Products among Prisoners of Udaipur
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Lodhia and babel, 2013