L.18 - Local Support for Enterprise

Enterprise support institutions: These are the institutions/agencies who play a helpful role in economic enterprise building, in local society. Examples could include, Chambers of Commerce, Directorate of Industries, Quality testing laboratories,Banks etc.

Yellow Pages: Yellow Pages refers to that section of a telephone directory, which is included in directory or published independently. It gives names and telephone numbers, categorized into Products or Service Type.These pages are typically printed on yellow paper to distinguish them from rest of the directory. Hence the name "Yellow Pages".

Enterprise Skills:

The student 'Activities' in each lesson are designed to clarify the ENTERPRISE CONCEPTS of the lesson and develop some ENTERPRISE SKILLS (E.SKILLS). The E.SKILLS included in a lesson may not be exhaustive, but are indicative.

E.SKILLS stated in a lesson elsewhere may also get addressed through the activities of a particular lesson.

Some useful E.SKILLS are dealt with below:

Classification: An entrepreneur should be able to group and regroup information into classes and categories which makes it easier to access the information. This skill is called classification.

ACTIVITIES:

Activity - LOCAL SUPPORT.

Read "Udyam Shastra" studiously, make friends with many entrepreneurs, Be of assistance to each other, And together you could prosper.

UDYAM SHASTRA- Chapter 10,Verse 05

Key Objectives:

Reading this module and doing the students activities will enable the students to:

    • Understand that they need support of several local enterprises, agencies and institutions.

    • Learn to use local directory and/or yellow pages.

Enterprise Concepts:

Instruction To Students

  • In this activity, the students will prepare a list of enterprise support services as also a list of other products/services they need for successful working of their own enterprise .Below is given a sample listing of Yellow Pages. Students will also learn how to refer to Yellow Pages if required.

  • Some students can volunteer to bring along a YELLOW PAGES BOOK for their group working.

  • Assume that your group is starting a biscuits or some other product/service business. From the following list, tick the Local support agencies you may need. Locate their name ,address and telephone numbers. Add other categories, if required.

  • After completing the activity, each group should present and share its main discussion points with the rest of the class.

Describe your Enterprise :_____________________________________________________________________

Sample Listing of Yellow Pages

Name, Tel.no. ,address

A

Accumulator batteries

Acids

Advertising agency

Agricultural tools

Alcohol

Animal Food Suppliers

B

Bakery machinery

Bags

Bangles

Bank

Banner

Beauty Parlour

Body guards agency

Box Manufacturing

C

Cable connectors

Café

Catering

Cardiologist

Cash Counting Machines

Cellular Phone

Chamber of Commerce

Computer Consultants

Crockery

Cylinders ,LPG

D

Dairy Machinery

Departmental stores

Dial-a-grocer

Dining halls

Doctors

Drama theatres

E

Edible oils

Egg Distributor

Electric oven

Electronic moving display

Embroidery

F

Fans

Fashion textile

Fire Extinguishing Equipment

Flour and Flour products

Food Preservatives

Food Processing Machinery

G

Gas Burners

General Merchant

Generators

Glass cutting

Goods transport

H

Health Foods

Hoardings

Horoscope agent

Hotels

I

Ice-creams

Imitation jewellery

Infra-red lamps

Instant Food

Irrigation systems

K

Kitchen Equipment

L

Labels and stickers

Leather Products

Laundry Equipment

M

Machinery for Confectionery

Magicians

Marriage Halls

P

Paan Masala

Paper and card-board suppliers

Perfumes

Pest control services

Q

Quality testing agency

Quilts & Blankets

R

Roller shutter

Railway Booking

S

Sand suppliers

Sleeping bags

T

T-Shirts

TV advertising

V

Vastu shashtra Consultant

Vegetable oils

Vermi-compost

W

Water filters

Weighing machines

Woolen Garments

Z

Zip