Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) is known as the engine of economic growth and for promoting equitable development. To strengthen the Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) was formed on 5 April 2016. The aim of the MSME Department is to make such policies for MSMEs that not only make them competent but also help foster their development. The department helps MSMEs to promote socioeconomic growth and employment opportunity in MP. By promoting rural entrepreneurship the department promotes the rural economy and hence empowers rural people in general and rural women in particular. It also provides access to credit, technology, and local as well as global market for MSMEs. It also develops clusters to provide common minimum facilities to MSMEs. Through Self-employment schemes it encourages youth to establish their enterprise in their home town/village.