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Helping make entrepreneurship a sought-after career option
To inculcate entrepreneurial skills in students, KR Mangalam University has recently introduced an Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) for its students. Promoted by the faculty of School of Management and Commerce, the E-Cell will help disseminate knowledge about entrepreneurship, encourage students to imbibe its spirit, and help students develop proficiency for becoming effective job creators.
The launch kicked-off with great zeal as there was a Business Carnival, which was a competition among students who had put up stalls for games, food, jewelry etc, where they were seen competing with each other to win over customers and make maximum profits. The carnival provided students a platform to discover, project, and put to test their enterpreneurial skills and abilities.
The participants were judged on the basis of the presentation of their stalls, innovation in products/ideas and selling/promoting skills. After the end of the event, many stall-owners distributed their leftover food items to the support staff, thus proactively putting CSR in practice.
Talking about the launch of the E-Cell, Aditya Malik, vice chancellor, KR Mangalam University, said, “It is our constant endeavour to consistently promote the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst students. The core objectives of the E-Cell include introducing and promoting the concept of entrepreneurship in curricula at diploma and degree levels, promoting entrepreneurship as a sought-after career option so that we create not only job seekers but also job creators, creating an environment for entrepreneurship development and selfemployment through formal and non-formal programs such as lectures, workshops, industrial visits, business plan competitions etc.”
Malik added, “With the launch of the E-Cell, the students were completely enthused with the fact that now entrepreneurship will be promoted as a sought-after career option and that entrepreneurial education and learning will be imparted through more such practical and fun-filled events.”