Review of Literature

Review of literature enables one to trace out the research gap in logical and sensible way. In this
backdrop a brief review of literature pertaining to research area is presented below.

Sindhu, H.(1998) in their study state that, employment generation has increased over a period of
time. The other findings of the study are related to decline in employment in the household
industries, and a decline in the contribution of the large scale sector to employment generation.
[ CITATION Sin98 \l 1033 ]

Hayami, et al.(1998) reveal that marketing channels be established which connect small rural
producers with large urban and/or foreign demand. This study investigates various forms of
production and trade contracts being practiced at the grass root level in the metal craft
manufacturing industry on the outskirts of Greater Manila in the Philippines.

Salim (1998) in his study proves that in most categories of industries there is more number of
high performing units followed by moderate performing units. High performing units have more
market orientation than low performing units. There is a strong positive correlation between
market orientation and business performance.[ CITATION SAL98 \l 1033 ]

Moli, et al.(2000) in their study reported that the considerable increase in the number of women
entrepreneurs is a result of the various support measures extended by governmental and non-
governmental agencies changing attitude towards women entrepreneurship, However, women
entrepreneurship registers low level in backward districts of Wayanad, Kannur and Kasargod
Specific programme may be implemented in these areas to increase the level of entrepreneurship.

Bagchi (2000) reports that though the small scale sector contributes significantly to industrial
output, employment and earning of foreign exchange it suffers from severe technological
obsolescence and lack of economies of scale. The small industries development organization
under the ministry of SSI and ARI has been providing institutional support for the promotion of
technology but in a vast country like India these facilities are inadequate.
Dr. Uma Narang & Pooja Sareen (201 in their article entitled “Performance Evaluation of Small
Industries Development Bank of India” have made sincere attempt to dig and evaluate
performance of SIDBI and evaluated multifaceted role of SIDBI in the development of MSME
Sector .

K Shankar Rao and Abdul rahman Noorinsab (2013) in their article crushed as the role of SIDBI
in developing the MSMEs in India” are of opinion that MSMEs is store house of wide
opportunities due to plethora of factors like capital intensive, extensive promotion & support by
Government, reservation for Exclusive manufacture, funding by way of Finance & subsides,
reservation for exclusive purchase by Government, export Promotion, great demand in the
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2319–2828 Vol. 5, No.3, May-June 2016 139 domestic market, export potential and son. In this
study backdrop the authors of the present paper have attempted to give a brief review of the
overall performance of the MSME sector, the role played by the SIDBI in empowering MSMEs
and acting as the agency for SME schemes of Government of India, have been described.

Dr. Kh. Dhiren meetei and Mrs Soma Devi (2013) in their article titled as Sidbi’s Promotional
and Development Activities in Northeastern Region (NER)” are of the opinion that SIDBI will
contribute a lot in gaining competitive advantage to the MSMEs through its promotional and
Development activities. Hence, the paper attempts to give a comprehensive overview of all
aspects related to promotional and development activities provided by SIDBI in NER.

Antima Agarwal and Dr. Surender Kumar Gupta (2014) in their article entitled “A Study on
various Schemes for MSME: with special reference to SIDBI” have evaluated the various
schemes which are extended by SIDBI for the development of MSMEs and concluded that the
various schemes provided by the SIDBI helped lot in the development of MSME sector in India. [
CITATION MrM17 \l 1033 ]
Dr. P. Amirtha Gowri and T.Renuha (2014) in their article entitled “An analysis of key indicators
of SIDBI” made an appraisal of performance of SIDBI in terms of selected physical and
financial indicators with the help of year on year growth percentage. The sector to fully utilize its
potential, it is essential that the entrepreneurs along with the Government support take necessary
steps for their development.