Entrepreneurship Development Cell(EDC)
Objectives
- To channelize the knowledge and the energy of youth towards becoming active partners in the economic development process.
- To catalyze and promote development of knowledge-based and innovation-driven enterprises and promote employment opportunities amongst youth specially students.
- To inculcate a culture of innovation-driven entrepreneurship.
- To act as an institutional mechanism for providing various services including information on all aspects of enterprise building to budding entrepreneurs.
Vision & Mission
- To organize Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes and Faculty Development Programmes.
- To guide and assist prospective entrepreneurs on various aspects such as preparing project reports, obtaining project approvals, loans and facilities from agencies of support systems and information on various technologies.
- To organize guest lectures, Seminars, etc. for promotion and growth of entrepreneurship.
- To arrange visits to industries for prospective entrepreneurs.
- To act as a Local Information Centre on business opportunities, processes, technologies, market, etc. by creating and maintaining relevant databases.
- To conduct skill development training programmes leading to self/wage employment.