With an aim to create culture for entrepreneurship in the State, the Uttarakhand Government will have to take several steps like establishing single window system. Eminent entrepreneurs and industry leaders said this while interacting with students at Graphic Era University in the entrepreneurship awareness drive held in collaboration with E-Cell of IIT Kharagpur on Monday.
In the seminar, students were encouraged to take part in the E-Cells business plan competitions and take their ideas a step ahead. The Entrepreneu-rship Cell, IIT Kharagpur, is a non-profit student organisation established with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India. The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive consists of a series of guest lectures and workshops in 20 cities in 20 days in the month of October. Each city plays host to an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC).
This seminar was attended by seasoned entrepreneurs Sanjeev Kapoor (founder of Shree Amba Industries), Munish Jauhar (founder of GrayCell Technologies Export), Sugandha Dubey (founder of www.stockimagebank.com — SIBSA), Vijendra Chauhan (CEO and founder of Evon Technologies) and others who enlightened the attendees with insights into starting a successful enterprise. The panel discussion on topic ‘Jobs vs Entrepreneurship’ was
also interesting.
More than 700 students from reputed colleges of the city- Graphic Era University, Uttaranchal University, UPES and others participated in the event.
In the seminar, eminent entrepreneurs and industry leaders advised students about the pros and cons of entrepreneurship as a career and how it differs from the usual run-of-the-mill job culture that has existed till now. After guest lectures, students interacted with entrepreneurs and experts to clear their doubts. Experts viewed that at a time when youth are losing their jobs due to economic meltdown, students should come forward with their vision and unique ideal to become entrepreneur.
Sanjeev Kapoor said, “Along with 25 team members and an investment of around Rs crore, I had started my business when I was 23 years old. With this team, now my business is worth Rs100 crores”, he said.
Manish Jauhar told the students not to be afraid of starting their own business. With the help of dedicated team along with unique vision, they can become good entrepreneurs.
The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive also coincides with the launch of E-Cell’s International Business Plan Competitions: Empresario and Envision, which attract enthusiastic participation from all over the nation and beyond.
According to the E-Cell, a healthy network has been developed between a large number of colleges and Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur, which is important for spreading awareness about entrepreneurship across the entire country. EAD has come a long way since its inception 5 years ago and has seen the number of cities grow from 10 to 20 with a footfall of 7550 in 2011 and 12,000
students in 2012.
Edu officers deployed to conduct inspections in Govt schools
Following the direction of the State Government, the education department officers were deployed to conduct inspections in Government schools on Monday to verify whether teachers transferred under Uttarakhand Teacher’s Transfer Policy-2013 have joined their new posts, but school education (basic) director RK Kunwar had no information about teachers who were found absent in their schools by Monday late evening. Garhwal division additional director NS Rana said that in higher secondary school, nine teachers were found absent in the Garhwal region. Garhwal division additional director (basic education) Chandra Pal said that in primary school and junior high school, as many as 173 teachers were found absent from their schools. Out of these, only two teachers were found absent without submitting leave applications in their respective schools. He had no information about how many teachers were found absent in their schools due to not assuming their new post after release of transfer list. Dehradun district education officer (basic) Pramendra Saklani said that three teachers were absent from their schools because they did not join their new post. It should be mentioned that state government has issued instructions to the directors to deploy education officers to conduct inspections in government schools from Monday to verify whether teachers transferred under Policy have joined their new posts. Following this direction, the directors had directed the education officers strictly to submit inspection report to education directorate by3 pm daily but these officers failed to do so.