New Delhi: Come Republic Day and over 200 successful entrepreneurs from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will coach 1,000 budding entrepreneurs from 16 cities how to launch a business and nurture it.
The programme is an initiative of the PanIIT Alumni India, an umbrella organisation of the alumni of all seven IITs in the country.
"Over 200 successful entrepreneurs from all the IITs in India, under the aegis of PanIIT Alumni Association, will launch a unique 'Entrepreneurship Movement' on January 26 to coach and counsel 1,000 budding entrepreneurs," said a statement from Indus Entrepreneur, one of the organisers.
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam will address the participants via video conferencing from Hyderabad.
While opening the Global IIT Alumni Conference in Mumbai in December 2006, Kalam had called upon IITians to help and share their experience with budding entrepreneurs.
The statement said Kalam's idea was that instead of being job seekers, "youth could create jobs not only for themselves, but for others as well".
The programme will be held simultaneously in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Patna and Pune.
This programme is aimed at non-IIT graduates, who with all their technical skills and academic grounding, may not know how best to start a business and grow it.
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