Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive held at NIFFT

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Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive held at NIFFT

Sunday, 20 October 2019 | PNS | Ranchi

The 10th edition of Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive by IIT Kharapur, was conducted at NIFFT here on Saturday. The magnificent event saw a participation of over 250 students coming from various colleges across the city. Through the words of celebrated entrepreneurs and industrialists like Aman Sanduja (founder of towards blockchain), Ravi Ranjan (Startup Expert, Ex-Nasscom), Rajeev Gupta (CEO Ranchi Mall), Amitesh Anand (Founder 36pi), Deepak Pareek (TEDx Speaker, Co-founder Career Keeda), Col Prabir Sengupta (Youth Mentor, Motivational Speaker)  the startup enthusiastic students realized that a real entrepreneur is the one who does and not just dreams, he does not wait for the opportunity to knock the door, he builds the door himself.

Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, conducted by the E-Cell, IIT Kharagpur, comes every year to reinstate the spirit of Entrepreneurship among the college students of India. Starting from 10 cities and 15,000 students it has grown exponentially to 22 cities and over 30,000 students in its 10th edition held in 2018. And the impact of this very Drive can be understood through the number of college-student-startups that participate in the annual global business model competition, Empresario conducted by E-Cell itself.

Empresario is E-Cell’s own Annual Business Model competition where business ideas in all fields ranging from Product and Service, Product Design to Social get equal opportunity to win the prize and incubation money to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore. The prizes and services for the winners as per the last year are worth Rs 25 lakh.

This year, Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur are proud to present the new prestigious Empresario 2020 in association with International Business Model Competition (IBMC). The best entries in all categories will get an opportunity to participate directly in the semi-final rounds of IBMC 2020 which will be conducted abroad.

Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur, a non-profit student organization, since its establishment in 2006, with its arduous efforts has taken us one step closer to an Entrepreneurial India.

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