Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSEMs)
NIOS · Class 10 · Entrepreneurship
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Topics in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSEMs)
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.
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.
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.
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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