In association with CII and Young
Indians, EDI conducted a seminar on Enterprising
Gujarat – Encouraging Entrepreneurship at its campus as a part of world
entrepreneurship week. Students from EDI and various colleges/universities of
Ahmedabad, like PDPU, IBS School of Business Management, Xcellon Institute, CEPT
and IIPM. The Chief Guest for the function was Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Executive
Chairman, Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Co. Ltd. Also present on the occasion were Mr. Piyush
Shah, Chairman-CII, Shri Yatindra Sharma, Past Chairman – CII, Mr. Dev
Mukherjee, Director CII, and Dr. Dinesh Awasthi, Director –EDI. The function
began with the welcome address of Dr. Awasthi.
The Chief Guest, Mr. Sanjay Gupta
in his keynote address, expressed happiness that “entrepreneurship’ was now
taught as a subject, giving youth the advantage of starting early rather than making
them wait for several years to take experience before venturing. He urged the students
not to be afraid of failures as he believed failures taught lessons which
success never did. Shri Gupta termed ‘right business ideas’ and the ‘skills to
pursue them’ as the essence of entrepreneurship. Giving prominence to ‘optimization’ over
‘innovation’, Shri Gupta said that in the Metro Link Express Project, they had
achieved optimization in operational planning, understanding customer expectations,
and thus achieved landmarks like reduction in cost by 35 % and increase in
speed. Emphasizing on the significance of research he said that for this
project too, they had researched technologies across the world and then brought
them all together.
Mr. Piyush Shah, Chairman-CII Gujarat
State Council in his theme address hoped that this celebration of
entrepreneurship would motivate many young people to step forward and be a part
of this happening world of entrepreneurship. He stated that India was
fortunate to be a young country and, very soon it would have a highly conducive
entrepreneurial climate.
Shri Yatindra Sharma, Past Chairman
– CII Gujarat State Council emphasized on the fact that India needs to foster a stronger
culture of entrepreneurship. Tracing his own success story he inspired all to be
determined, have the right entrepreneurial spirit and move ahead with a passion
to succeed.
In his concluding remarks, Dr.
Dinesh Awasthi, Director –EDI, urged all students to dream big and achieve big
as India ,
he said, was going through the most fruitful time with opportunities in plenty
and pro-SME policies. Inspiring the youth to think big he asked them to trust
‘next practices’ instead of ‘best practices’ and change the game itself instead
of changing just the rules, while pursuing entrepreneurship.
