AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

An Awareness Programme on Entrepreneurship Development was jointly organized by FOSMl Institute for Entrepreneurship Development (FlED), an organ of FOSMI and Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya (SGM) at the college premises on the 16th December. 2005.

 The inaugural session of the programme was graced by Md, Salim, Hon'ble Member of Parliament; Shri Kalyan Mukherjee, Deputy Mayor, KMC; Dr. Ganesh Chandra Ray, President, SGM; Shri Alok Goswami, Chairman, FlED; Dr. Okab Ali Sarkar, Principal, SGM and Shri A. K. Patnaik, AGM, SBI.

The dignitaries and distinguished guests made encouraging presentations and spoke very high of initiating the entrepreneurship development programme in a college for motivating the students for self-entrepreneurship in the event of shrinkage of job opportunities. The general consensus was that this type of programme should essentially be organized in the colleges as an eye-opener for self entrepreneurship.Besides students of SGM, the programme was also attended by the students of St. Xavier's College, Raja Manindra Chandra College, etc. and the attendance was in large number and the auditorium was packed to capacity.

FlED introduced highly experienced and eminent faculties to interact with the students on various subjects like principles of entrepreneurship, statutory compliances, projects and finance, positive mental attitude and personality development, SIDBI Schemes, marketing strategy and planning, etc.

     The students were found to be quite agile and put forward a number of questions which were answered by the faculties.

     FlED & SGM highly recognize the excellent job done by the following faculties through positive interaction with the students:

Shri Dipak Dutta, Shri Tapan Chakrq,borty of DIC, Shri Tapas Gupta of UBI, Shri

Debasis Mitra, representative of SIDBI, Shri Asis Chatterjee and Shri Asit Sharma Sarkar.

From FOSMI/FIED the programme was attended by Shri Samir Ganguly,Shri U. N. Saha, Shri Binodananda Banerjee, Shri Subhas Roy, Shri I. C. Boral, Shri Dipak Das"gupta, Shri S. Panda, Shri Ujjwal Mukherjee and Shri R. Sen. "

. The day-long programme was professionally organized and well presented with perfect ambience all over.