Workshop on Entrepreneurship Development held in Biswanath College

Staff Reporter Biswanath Chariali, September 26: A workshop on Entrepreneurship Development was organized today in Biswanath College by Assam Small Industry Development Corporation in collaboration with IQAC and IIC of the college. Kishore Upadhyay, Chairman, Assam Small Industry Development Corporation in his speech as resource person apprised the student community of various government schemes available for interested students. As government jobs are limited, Sri Upadhyay called upon students to think of becoming entrepreneurs. Earlier, Dr Chinta Mani Sharma, Principal, Biswanath College welcomed the guests and urged the students to be aware of the government facilities available for interested students who wanted to be entrepreneurs. Bijit Pratim Mahanta, Extension Officer, DICC and Riku Dutta, District Team Leader, APART, Biswanath gave a detailed presentation to the students to make them aware of various projects interested students could take up. They also apprised the students of various financial facilities available for interested students. Preetam Kumar Nath, District Development Manager,Sonitpur (NABARD) also gave a detailed presentation on various schemes available in the agricultural and rural development sector. Ajit Singh, Regional Manager, SBI,Tezpur informed the students of various facilities relating to financial assistance and loans SBI would provide. Dr Naresh Thakur, Coordinator, IQAC compared the programme. Dr Lalit Baruah, Dr Dipankar Saikia both members of IQAC, Deep Jyoti Nath, President,IIC, Biswanath College and Dr Karabi Gogoi, HoD, Economics attended the meeting along with other faculties. Nearly four hundred students and several journalists of Biswanath also attended the workshop.