Entrepreneurship skills key to self-reliance

The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC), New Delhi, organised a workshop on `Entrepreneurship Development' for MBA students at SRK Institute of Technology at Enikepadu on Wednesday.

Speaking after inaugurating the workshop, college chairman Boyapati Appa Rao stressed the need to lay emphasis on entrepreneurship development for employment generation and to solve the unemployment problem in the country.

MBA students should explore the ways to become successful entrepreneurs instead of opting for jobs as it would enable them to provide employment to others, besides achieving self-reliance. The workshop was aimed at imparting entrepreneurship skills among students, he said.

NSIC representative G Sudarshan who conducted the workshop, dwelt on project planning, mobilisation of resources, production, marketing and other aspects of entrepreneurship development.

He also explained the incentives being provided by the Centre and the State Government to prospective and young entrepreneurs under various development schemes for setting up of business units. College secretary BS Sri Krishna, principal K Bala Showry, MBA department head N Subramanyam and other faculty members were present.