Chandigarh : Haryana Government has formulated guidelines to establish Entrepreneurship Clubs (EC) within the existing placement cells in all the Government engineering colleges and Government aided polytechnics of the State to inculcate ‘entrepreneurial culture’ amongst its youth and equip them with skills to act as job creators instead of being job seekers in the future.
The key aim of the cell would be to foster entrepreneurship amongst the students of the state for generation of employment opportunities and creation of wealth, said a spokesman of the Technical Education Department.
He said that this would be a part of the Department’s drive to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the state.
Through these ECs, the Department of Technical Education, envisions a society of self-motivated individuals’ kernelled with constructive and intense entrepreneurial drive leading to positive outcomes for the state. These entrepreneurship clubs would also facilitate campus-industry linkage on the higher education Institutes of the state, said the spokesman.
The ECs would be a student-run initiative that engages and inspires students to explore the many paths towards becoming an entrepreneur. The students willing to join the EC would be enrolled as members. The ECs would act as small incubators located within the Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics, where students with innovative ideas can pursue entrepreneurial stints along with their studies, said he.
These would provide assistance in creating an easy mechanism for registration and application to access the benefits under the initiative. The hub would be accessible to startups, incubators, angel investors, mentors, government representatives and banks, said the spokesman.
The ECs would liaison with various central and state government agencies, industry associations for the implementation of schemes and policies. These would also set up coordination with Innovation and Incubation Centre setup at Government Polytechnic Manesar in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki and various Centers of Excellence (CoEs) at Polytechnics, he added.
He further said that at these ECs, a student can engage in various entrepreneurial related activities, including ideathons, hackathons, business modelling sessions, meet-the-mentor sessions and so on. The ECs would also organize Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, Faculty Development Programmes and Skill Development Programmes in the colleges and polytechnics of the state.
Apart from this, they would organize interactive sessions, workshops and debates with successful entrepreneurs from outside as well as within the state. Feedback mechanisms would be put in place to ensure that mentorship is providing the desired value to the students, he added.
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