IIIT Allahabad to set up Entrepreneurial skill centre to enhance skills of professionals

The institute will soon be setting up a dedicated  ‘Centre for Entrepreneurial Skill and Capacity Induction’ (CESCI) on its campus under the Aatmnirbhar Bharat scheme of the central government to start skill development programmes.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad will soon offer short-term demand-oriented certificate and diploma courses to help enhance the technical knowledge and skills of professionals, improve the quality of the Indian workforce and empower them to also start their own enterprises. For this, the institute will soon be setting up a dedicated  ‘Centre for Entrepreneurial Skill and Capacity Induction’ (CESCI) on its campus under the Aatmnirbhar Bharat scheme of the central government to start skill development programmes, informed IIIT-A director Prof Nagabhushan.

This new centre will work as a not-for-profit centre dedicated to build requisite entrepreneurial skills among youths and equip them with the necessary capacity to take entrepreneurial ventures in their lives, he added. Prof Nagabhushan said that the main objective of the CESCI, the proposal for which had already been passed by the IIIT-A Senate and would soon be put before the Board of Governors for approval, would be to produce skill-based young entrepreneurs who could start independent ventures in life.

“These people will be finally acting as the change agent in the society which in the long run will create jobs, commercialize new technologies and strengthen national economies and ultimately help in fulfilling the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat, he added.

The faculty members attached to this centre include Ranjit Singh, Vijaishri Tewari, Madhvendra Misra and Shashi Kant Rai.

The centre would be open to both IIIT-A students and others, said Madhvendra Mishra, a faculty member of IIIT-A’s Department of Management Studies and Associate Dean (MoUs-National/International and Coordinator of MoU-based activities).

“People joining a programme under CESCI that will function under institute’s Department of Management Studies will not only benefit from business and technical assistance, but also from official affiliation with the Centre, a supportive community with an entrepreneurial environment, direct link to entrepreneurs and various agencies, and immediate networking and commercial opportunities with other bodies,” he added.

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