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Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSEMs)

NIOS · Class 10 · Entrepreneurship

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1. Importance of MSMEs

  • MSMEs are a major part of economic growth.
  • MSME is rightly termed as “the engine of growth” for India.
  • MSME sector contributes 8% of India's GDP.
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2. Business, Factory and Enterprise

  • Business is an economic activity concerned with production and distribution of goods and services for profit.
  • A factory is a place where a manufacturing process is carried on.
  • Enterprise means an industrial undertaking, business concern, or any other establishment engaged in manufacture or in providing services.
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3. Factory Definition and Worker Limits

  • Factory means any premises where a manufacturing process is carried on or ordinarily carried on.
  • A factory using power requires 50 or more workers on any day of the preceding twelve months.
  • A factory without power requires 100 or more workers on any day of the preceding 12 months.
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4. Types of Business Structures

  • Business enterprises can be formed as sole proprietorship, partnership, LLP, company, or cooperative society.
  • Sole proprietorship is owned, managed, and controlled by one person.
  • Partnership firm is formed by two or more persons to run a business for profit.

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MSMEs are called the engineBusiness is an economic activity concernedA factory is any premises whereAn enterprise is an industrial undertakingCommon business structures include sole proprietorship

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