A Kectil Community Initiative

Talent is everywhere.
Opportunity isn't.

MCESP — the Marginalised Communities Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Programme — builds the missing bridge between ability and access, so where you're born stops deciding what you're allowed to build.

The reality, in numbers
8.9%
of registered MSMEs are owned by Scheduled Caste entrepreneurs
2.9%
of registered MSMEs are owned by Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs
11.5%
SC ownership share of private enterprise in rural areas
7.3%
SC ownership share of private enterprise in urban areas — the gap widens, not narrows
Why MCESP exists

Three decades of open markets. The same closed circle.

Liberalisation was supposed to democratise enterprise in India. Instead, old hierarchies rebuilt themselves inside new corporate structures — in who gets credit, who gets into supply chains, and who gets taken seriously in a room. The result is a generation of capable people who were never given a fair first step.

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"A true nation cannot progress if its margins are left behind."
How we work

One programme, three ways in

Learn — Qvritti

Our digital platform breaks entrepreneurship, sustainability, finance and legal literacy into simple, visual, audio-guided lessons — built for people with no prior exposure to any of it.

About Qvritti

See — Graphic Stories

Where smartphones don't reach, illustrated books in the Amar Chitra Katha tradition carry real stories of marginalised founders into homes and classrooms, sparking the first spark of "I could do that."

Belong — The Community

Mentors, local partners, and a growing network of contributors and editors who write, verify, and share the stories that make this movement real.

Get involved
In the community

What this actually looks like

MCESP field workshop
Community discussion circle
Regional mapping in progress
Comic book illustration session
Founder at their enterprise
Outreach team on-site
From the field

Stories, as they happen

Rebuilding a family trade into a registered enterprise

What formalisation actually looks like for a household that's never filled out a form for its own business before.

When the first pitch doesn't land — and what happens next

An honest account of a founder's first rejection, and the mentorship that turned it into a second attempt.

Loans, subsidies, and the paperwork nobody explains first

A plain-language walkthrough of what to prepare before you ever walk into a bank.

This is a young, honest, still-building movement.

We'd rather show you the work in progress than a polished story that isn't true yet. Read it, write for it, or join it.