Entrepreneurship education not only develops winning personal qualities but also provides an opportunity to create employment for self and for others. Entrepreneurship, self-employment and enterprise creation provide a solution to the crises of both unemployment and under-employment. In this context, re-orientation of our education system towards entrepreneurship, would set in an encouraging trend with youngsters displaying a natural bent towards entrepreneurship as a career option. Interventions such as, offering entrepreneurship course on a regular basis and through correspondence, inculcating the spirit of entrepreneurship through organizing camps and workshops, developing capacities of faculty members involved in teaching entrepreneurship at school and college levels and creating awareness through Orientation Programmes will sure remove inhibitions among youth and motivate them to take the plunge.
The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Research would therefore orchestrate all activities related to entrepreneurship education and research under one umbrella to bring about a crucial link between theory and practice in the field of entrepreneurship. The Centre, besides institutionalizing entrepreneurship in institutions of higher learning, would act as a forum to bring scholars from across the country to share their views related to entrepreneurship that have contemporary relevance and interest.
Entrepreneurship, we say, is the need of the hour and, thus, this discipline must get recognition as only then the youth would endorse its benefits. In addition to its regular activities, the Institute will also explore possibilities of; obtaining university status to establish independent identity, striking collaborations with national and international institutions for joint researches, courses and exchange programmes for widening the scope and boundaries as also launching new courses including Doctoral Programmes. To encourage research in entrepreneurship, EDI will provide fellowship support and also undertake joint research projects with Indian and overseas universities and institutions.
Entrepreneurship education needs to gain firm ground to change the face of the economy. It is only under such a scenario that we would witness a longer queue of job providers than job seekers. And our efforts would sure show us productive and efficient youth, par excellence.
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