The photograph taken during Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme held at GGNIMT, Ludhiana.
Ludhiana, September 1, 2014: A three-day ‘Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme’ in association with Regional centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Chandigarh and Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt of India began at Gujranwala Institute of Management & Technology (GGNIMT), Civil Lines here today. The event started with the lamp lightening ceremony. Prof Majit Singh Chabbra, Co-ordinator, GGNIMT welcomed the esteemed guests and resource persons on the occasion. He shared that the session intended to bridge the gap between academics and industry.
Prof. Parvinder Singh, Head, Business Management department, GGNIMT gave the rationale of the program. Highlighting the grim scenario of employability in India, he said that out of 7 Lacs students passing out from about 10,000 professional colleges in a year only 25% technical graduates and 15-20% of others are employable by ITES. He also pointed out the assertion of Mrs. Pratibha Patil that 3rd largest numbers of graduates in the world every year is produced in India and only 15% of all boys and girls have the skills to become employable. Prof Singh exhorted that to benefit from the demographic dividend and to become a global manufacturing hub, the young generation must be introduced to entrepreneurship skills.
R. C Chopra, Former Director MSME, Govt. of India was the resource person for the first session. While interacting with the students, he said that entrepreneurship is a behavior or a skill which should be incorporated by everyone. The entrepreneurial skills not only made good businessmen but good employees as well. Chopra in the next part of session highlighted the special incentives and schemes of central and state government to promote entrepreneurship. Giving the success formula, Chopra advised the budding entrepreneurs to aspire, seek, envision, act and grow in the world of entrepreneurship.
Gautam Sikri, MD, Ramson Cycles Pvt. Ltd and a GGNIMT alumnus was the expert for the next session. He guided the students on how to go about setting up their own ventures. He emphasised on the qualities of vision, far sightedness and focus to be paramount to the success of a venture. “To survive and thrive in the highly competitive business scenario, one needs to upgrade himself in terms of resources and technology” said Sikri while motivating the students to indulge in self employment.
The session concluded with the question-answer round there the students cleared all their doubts. Principal Dr. P. S Khattra thanked the guest for sharing valuable insights into the topic.