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India, poised on the threshold on becoming a superpower, is in a need of strong persons with the ability to hold the helm. Those with the ability and will to lead are the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur, hopes to play its part in realizing this vision. It has, thus, undertaken many nationwide initiatives since the last six years to spread entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of India through Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD), a series of guest lectures and workshops, aimed at motivating youth towards entrepreneurship, conducted in cities across India, and Empresario, the globally conducted Business Plan Competition which focuses on mentoring and VC funding.

As in its previous editions, EAD 2011, to be conducted throughout the month of October will leave its footprints in 15 cities, comprising both Tier-I and Tier-II cities across India. The speakers will include the likes of Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Founder, Biocon, Padma Bhushan recipient and featured in the Forbes list of 100 most powerful women, in Bangalore; Mr Pradip Shah, founder of PATNI computer systems in Mumbai; Mr Kaushal Mehta and Mr Vishal Mehta, entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), respectively, in IIM Ahmedabad.

EAD 2011 will commence on October 4 from New Delhi. Subsequent EACs (entrepreneurship Awareness Camps) will be held at Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad(IIM A), Hyderbad, Pune, Jaipur, Vidaywada, Patna, Ranchi, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Kolkata and Kharagpur, witnessing culmination on October 23.

Each city will feature an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC) held at a prominent college in the city featuring guest lectures by eminent entrepreneurs, participation of the best startups of the country, hands-on workshops and start-up mentoring sessions. Besides, networking sessions are also conducted with speakers for the sole benefit of students. EAD features not only guest lectures by the likes of top entrepreneurs but also substantial workshops by “Nurture Talent Academy”, India’s first Entrepreneurship Education Organisation, and Eminent Guests from CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad, which would mentor new business ideas emerging from this massive initiative.

To know more about Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, log on to www.ead.cell-iitkgp.org. To know more about Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur log on to www.ecell-iitkgp.org/presario.

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