A Report on National Entrepreneurship Education Awards (NEEA), 25 Oct 2008, @ NITIE Mumbai
Author: NITIE Center for Student Enterprsies ( NCSE)
Behetar Padhai ke liye…. Kamai ! !
National Entrepreneurship Education Awards
Oct 25, 2008, @ NITIE Mumbai
Conducted by
NITIE Center for Student Enterprises
“Orientation for entrepreneurship has to start right from the schools. Teachers need to teach the role of entrepreneurship in national development in the schools. During college education students must be exposed to business development opportunities and must be trained towards creation of new enterprises…”
Bharat Ratna, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
A Report on National Entrepreneurship Education Awards (NEEA), 25 Oct 2008, @ NITIE Mumbai
National Entrepreneurship Education Awards ( NEEA) are launched by NITIE Center for Student Enterprises (NCSE), a project promoted by DST – NSTEDB, at NITIE. The purpose of these awards is to recognize the efforts of academic institutions, distinguished faculty and student entrepreneurs in the country who are propelling through their efforts entrepreneurship development in the country. Towards this NCSE has taken a lead to launch National Entrepreneurship Education Awards.
Nominations for the awards are invited from all over the country. There is extremely good response in terms of the quality of the nominations that we have received. After multiple levels screening, following nominations in three categories are awarded the certificates of recognition and cash prizes for the awardees.
Best Student Enterprise Award :
M / S. Naboo Solutions Pvt. Limited – An enterprise run by NIT K Suratkal Engineering College Student Entrepreneurs - Certificate and Rs.15,000 /-Cash prize
M / S. Hellointern – An enterprise run by IIT B Student Entrepreneurs - Certificate and Rs.8,000 /-Cash prize
Best Faculty – Entrepreneurship Education Award : Certificate and Rs.5,000 /-Cash prize for each of the faculty members
Ms. Dr. P Jyothi, Associate Professor, Central University Hyderabad
Ms. Vasanthi Venugopal – Faculty Member Mount Carl College, Bangalore
Ms. Radha Iyer, Faculty member, SIMSR , Mumbai
Best Academic institution – Entrepreneurship Education Award : Certificate of recognition…
Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences ( AIMS) Bangalore
Senior English Medium Commerce College (SIMCER) , Anand, Gujarath
Awards ceremony was presided over by Dr S D Awale, Director, NITIE and Guest of honours include – Mr DSN Murthy CEO Dhnush Infotech and Mr R Suresh, MD StantonChase International, Mr. Nemade, Managing Partner, Nikhil Comforts. Faculty members, education administrators, students, and entrepreneurs in a big number have attended the awards ceremony conducted at NITIE Mumbai on 25 Oct 2008 1700 hours.
These Awards are being conducted in association with DST – NSTEDB, Dhanush Infotech, Stantonchase International, Nikhil Comforts, Control Case, TiE and NeN, SIDBI Ventures. Note worthy point noted here is that – All the cash prizes for the awardees were sponsored by none other than the NITIE Alumni Entrepreneurs. Their spirit is commendable which is laudable.
Final Word:
There is need for developing entrepreneurship in the country. The task is gigantic taken the vast country like India and the sheer count of population. Few excellent institutions working for entrepreneurship development at the national level cannot be the solution for this gigantic problem. There is need to enable multitude of academic institutions, students, and teachers to commit for this task. There are people and they look for Prerana. If that motivation is provided, they jump in and take up this task and commit for the cause.
There is need to motivate large number of students, teachers and academic institutions in the country to commit for entrepreneurship as part of creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem which promotes entrepreneurship development in India. National Entrepreneurship Education Awards ( NEEA) are one such small and humble attempt in this direction. We look forward for your feedback from you all. We strongly believe that we will meet with success with the best wishes of the many of you in this journey.
Welcome to Next version of National Entrepreneurship Education Awards ( NEEA) due in Oct 2009. A hearty welcome to the awards ….
Dr T Prasad, Coordinator, National Entrepreneurship Education Awards ( NEEA)
Faculty Adviser, NITIE Center for Student Enterprises.
