An Empirical Study on Selected Chemical Units in Gujarat with Special Reference to Facilities Provided By GIDC

Abstract

The words entrepreneur, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship acquired special significance in the context of economic growth in a rapidly changing socio-economic and socio-cultural climate. In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the role of GIDC in entrepreneurship development with special reference to 200 chemical units of Ahmedabad, Nandesari, Ankleshwar, Sachin and Vapi Industrial Estate of Gujarat State. Entrepreneurship is one of the important segments of economic growth. GIDC provides different types of facilities. But the satisfaction of entrepreneurs regarding facilities provided by GIDC is varying for entrepreneur to entrepreneur, facility to facility and estate to estate. This paper concluded that the infrastructural facilities like internal road, water supply, drainage, post office, bank, insurance, hotel, government notified area office and hospital are satisfied but land and building, school and warehouse are not satisfied. GIDC does not play proper role regarding grievance handling. In short, almost all the value-added services are not fully satisfied.