SEMINAR-MBA

Mr. Ashok Gadiya explained the model developed by his University wherein every student has to acquire atleast one vocational course along with the degree pursued. This has resulted in creating entrepreneurs of all sorts especially amongst rural girl students. Dr. Santosh Mehrotra spelt out the Government role in the area of entrepreneurship. 2005 and 2010 was the period of jobless growth due to slow progress in this field. He compared China’s meteoric growth and lamented on India’s sluggish corporate response towards social responsibility. He commented on Women empowerment and quoted Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen that a girl must have atleast secondary education, have ownership rights, have independent source of income and be permitted to work outside. Mrs. Jayashree Shrivastava briefed on how CEGR was enriching the entire society through entrepreneurship awareness.

The Technical session was held in the second half and had few leading young entrepreneurs namely Mr. Praveen Sinha, Co-founder Jabong.com and Mr.Vikas Khanduri, founder Viva-Voyages .The discussions were lively and fruitful. Mr. Praveen Sinha stressed that risk taking is an integral part of becoming an entrepreneur and unfortunately young and fertile brains in our country are averse to this. The best IT brains are in India but the game changers are in US and other countries e.g. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and so on. Mr.Jatinder Singh, Secretary Education, PHD Chambers of Commerce informed the house that CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is now being mandated as law and would come to effect from 1st April, 2014. Every company will have to earmark 2% of their earnings (PBT) for CSR.

About 8500 companies will come under this ambit and there will be a generation of approx Rs.15000 to 18000 crores resulting in an employment boom by 50,000 jobs. Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Director General Jaipuria Group of Institutes wanted a knowledge capsule to be designed for training students to become entrepreneurs. The right eco-system must be created for budding entrepreneurs and the seed must match the right soil for bloom.

The vote of thanks was given by Mr. V.N. Choudhary, Vice-President-CEGR and the seminar concluded on an optimistic note.