FDP: for teachers of Engineering/Science Colleges & Polytechnics,1995

Abstract

India, like other developing countries, is confronted with the serious problem of mounting unemployment among educated youth. In order to deal with this problem, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EOPs) have been found as an effective tool to motivate newcomers for taking up self-employment and entrepreneurial career. It has also been realised by Indian planners that entrepreneurial values should be inculcated when the students are graduating,to convert creative energies, technical and scientific capabilities into productive resources, generate further employment, output and income. To meet with the above objectives, Department of Science & Technology (DST) has taken the initiative in introducing entrepreneurship as a cou rse in Science and Technicallnstitu nons. DST has also assisted a number of engineering colleges and polytechnics in creating Entrepreneurship Development Cells for organizing Entrepreneurship Development (EO) activities in their colleges and nearby areas.