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Chandigarh 17th Dec:- A Three-day entrepreneurship and
rural development conclave (ERDC – 2019) was inaugurated at National Institute
of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh on 17th December
2019. The event is being jointly organized by NITTTR, Chandigarh and Young
Hopes of India Foundation in association with Indian Institute of Technology,
Ropar, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal, Punjab.
The conclave
was inaugurated by Ratan Lal Kataria, MoS, Jal Shakti, Social Justice and
Empowerment, Government of India. The event was also graced by Mukul Kanitkar,
General Secretary, Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal, Nayab Singh, Hon’ble MP,
Loksabha, Kurukshetra, Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University,
Chandidgarh, Prof. Sarit Das, Director, IIT Ropar and Prof. S S Pattnaik,
Director, NITTTR, Chandigarh.
This unique
conclave aims at bridging the gap between the most creative minds i.e., school
children, teachers, educators, entrepreneurs specially focused at rural entrepreneurship
and the rural governance. The outcome of the conclave is to provide the
platform for materializing the innovative ideas of creative children. It
provides necessary networking amongst schools, colleges, universities, public
representatives, wanapreneurs,
entrepreneurs, industry representatives and officials while promoting rural
entrepreneurship.
The first
day of the conference was focused on the need of entrepreneurial development in
children by focusing on school administrators and educators. The conclave
convenor Chetan Sahore introduced the guests. Prof. S S Pattnaik, Director,
NITTTR Chandigarh welcomed the dignitaries and stressed on the need of for
training the next generation teachers, so that they can become catalysts in
educating the children of the current technological era. Shri Mukul Kanitkar in
his address discussed the need to educate the children regarding the glorious
traditions of the country and emphasised on making educational system in tune
with Indian culture and ethos. He said that the future entrepreneurs in India
should develop technologies specially focused on Indian needs.
Ratan Lal
Kataria, MoS, GoI spoke about various government of India initiatives for
promoting entrepreneurship skills among the youth. He also stressed upon the
role of teachers in promoting entrepreneurship skills among the students at
their early age. Nayab Singh, MP of Kurukshetra spoke about the need of rural
entrepreneurship. Prof. Rajkumar, VC of Panjab University detailed upon the
initiatives of PU and its incubation centre. Prof. Sarit Das, Director of IIT
Ropar discussed the requirement social entrepreneurship culture to be developed
among the students and offered the facilities of IIT for school children of the
catchment area.
Understanding the need of bridging
the gap between the current education system and the millennial generation,
towards training the next generation teachers a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between NITTTR Chandigarh and
Research for Resurgence Foundation for establishment of Research for Resurgence
Outreach Centre at NITTTR Campus. The MoU will mutually benefit the
students and faculties for nurturing the research, innovation and creativity
among students.
The
conclave is having three one day conferences on (i) Need for
Entrepreneurship Development (ii) Innovative Rural Development Projects
(iii) Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojna. The broad theme of the conclave is to
create a platform to collaborate different stakeholders of rural
entrepreneurship and to describe the role of colleges and universities in
association with Gram Panchayats. The expected outcomes of this conclave are
Rural Entrepreneurship projects in Rural areas and Sharing of ideas and
understanding of mutual expectations.
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