HT Correspondent
BISWANATH CHARIALI, Sept 16: A one-day entrepreneurship awareness programme was held at Biswanath College on Friday. The programme was organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Institutions Innovations Cell of the college in collaboration with the ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India and District Industries and Commerce Center, Govt of Assam.
The inaugural session started with the welcome speech by Dr. Chinta Mani Sharma, principal of Biswanath College where he talked about the need for an entrepreneurial ecosystem in higher educational institutions. There were three technical sessions of the program where the first one was carried forward by Raj Mohnani, assistant director of ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India as resource person. In his speech, he described various initiatives offered by the ministry of MSME for entrepreneurship development.
The second session witnessed the presence of resource person Ritu Dutta, assistant director, District Industries and Commerce Center, Government of Assam who delivered his speech on various schemes of Assam Government for promoting entrepreneurship in Assam.
The lecture of the third session was on the promotion of start up in Assam and was delivered by Amrit Raj Konwar, a successful entrepreneur of Assam and founder of Edupur Shiksha Abhiyan. He delivered an extensive lecture on entrepreneurship as a career option.
All the three sessions were highly interactive where around two hundred students from different departments of the college participated. The programme also witnessed the active involvement of Dr. Naresh Thakur, coordinator, IQAC, Dr. Debashis Sarmah, assistant coordinator, IQAC, Dr Lalit Boruah, member of IQAC, Deepjyoti Nath, president, IIC, Kabita Borah, head of the department of Commerce, Arabinda Das and Ranjana Sharma of the department of Commerce.
