1) To generate employment opportunities in rural as well as urban areas of the country through setting up of new self-employment ventures/projects/microenterprises, 2) To bring together widely dispersed traditional artisans/ rural and urbanunemployed youth and give them self- employment opportunities to the extent possible, at their place, 3) To provide continuous and sustainable employment to a large segment oftraditional and prospective artisans and rural and urban unemployed youth in the country, so as to help arrest migration of rural youth to urban areas, 4) To increase the wage earning capacity of artisans and contribute to increase in the growth rate of rural and urban employment