On the occasion of “Engineer’s Day, the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati, an autonomous organization under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, organized a workshop on “Skilling and Entrepreneurship” for Engineers and the technically qualified youths at the Visvesvaraya Auditorium, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala on Wednesday.
The objective of the workshop was to create awareness about the significance of “Skilling and Entrepreneurship” and its relevance in technological sector in present day, the scopes and opportunities associated with technological entrepreneurship.
The topics on “Social Enterprises Marketing” and factors involved, the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in academics and various schemes and support for students were highlighted in the workshop.
Supriti Chakraborty, Project Coordinator of Skill Development Department, Dr.Suman Deb, Professor NIT ,Dr.Anirban Dutta, Professor NIT, Shibendu Debbarma , Addl. Director of Software Technology Parks of India(STPI), Prasanta Goswami , Associate Faculty Member of IIE gave presentation as key speaker in the program. The speakers highlighted about the start-up ecosystem and its avenues in context to present market, the scopes associated with skilling in technical stream and the institutional support given to entrepreneurs.
Goswami, gave introductory speech on the occasion. In his speech, he provided information on various schemes and programs implemented by the IIE, he also emphasized on the upcoming events of IIE on Drone Application, collaboration with Electronic Sector Skill Council of India to implement more market suited technical skilling programs .In the discussion session, he highlighted about the incubations of IIE which could be utilized by technical students for skilling and shared the foresight about the technical students.
Around more than 300 students and engineers attended the program from various technical institute like NIT, TIT, ICFAI University, Khumlung Polytechnic College, Girls’ Polytechnic College, even the PG and PhD. scholars of NIT. An interactive session was arranged between the participants and speakers.
