National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur has launched a five-day online workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on December 28, 2020. 

The online workshop was inaugurated by the Director of NIT Hamirpur, Professor Lalit Awasthi. The aim of the workshop is to provide ideas to students to become innovators and to set up enterprise firms. Above 200 students of Institute has registered to participate in the online workshop.

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Professor Awasthi gave the inauguration speech in the online workshop and gave the importance of the need of the hour to accept the challenges in making India ‘Atamnirbhar Bharat’ in compliance with the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested the faculties of NIT Hamirpur to be a part of the initiative.

He stated that to help the students to take up innovative projects based on the social needs, the NIT Hamirpur was planning to reserve one per cent fund of the annual budget of the Institute towards the innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund.

NIT Hamirpur will also offer its help and finance the innovators in filling of the patents. The students should become job creators instead of job seekers, said Professor Awasthi.

The students should be promoted towards taking up the startup activity and organizing events related to the startup. Professor Awasthi suggested the students of NIT Hamirpur to visit the startup company and interact with the incubators. 

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Professor Aswathi also motivated the students of NIT Hamirpur to register their innovative ideas in the Chief Minister’s startup scheme which is already running effectively in the Institute and benefitted 13 incubates. 

The Director of NIT Hamirpur stated that this online workshop is just a beginning and more events will be launched in the upcoming days. 

In the forenoon session of the First day, Professor Satendra Kumar, General Manager of TBI and Dean (R&C) KIET Ghaziabad shared his views and highlighted that plenty of business opportunities were available for young minds. 

Dr Pradeep Kumar, Convener and Rajesh Sharma, Coordinator of the online workshop thanked the dignitaries and the participants. They expressed their expectation that the 5-day workshop will help the students. 

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