ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL (DSI-EDC) DAYANANDA SAGAR INSTITUTIONS, Shavigemalleswara hills, KS Layout, Bangalore-560 078 Welcome The founder of the Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Barrister R Dayananda Sagar who was an active participant of freedom movement was an educationist and social worker .With high entrepreneurial spitits, he had the greatest vision of propagating education from primary school level to higher education with a motto "EDUCATION COMPLETES A MAN" and "KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERS". Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Peeta Trust was established in the year 1962 to fulfill his dream of providing formal education to all. Today the Trust manages several educational institutions of repute. His long-term vision has been successful and greater heights have been achieved by his sons Dr. D. Hemachandra Sagar & Dr. D. Premachandra Sagar.

Sowing the seeds for self employment

Dayananda Sagar institutions are producing  large number of trained manpower, thus fulfilling the need of the industry, R&D institutions and other sectors of economy. In order to make optimal use of facilities, expertise and know-how available in these institutions for the benefit of the society, it is necessary that appropriate links be established between them and the industry. In addition, young graduates are also looking out for opportunities to exploit their full potential by setting up their own ventures. This necessitates systematic interventions and new instruments, which could facilitate the development and growth of new ventures by fresh graduates. Thus, it is necessary to develop mechanisms so that we could focus our attention on entrepreneurship & self-employment.

Hence DSI- EDC is conceived.

 

 Adequate infrastructure is available at our campus  for promoting Entrepreneurship. What is required is to fill the gaps in the form of trained faculty and focused programs to inculcate entrepreneurial spirit amongst the Science, Technology and management students.

 

With the increasing number of graduating students from the institutions, it is our social responsibility and concern to provide them alternate career options. Along with preparing them to be employable, it is also important to develop ‘Job creators’ than ‘Job seekers’. It is therefore necessary to motivate and train young students to take up self-employment.

Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

The Dayananda Sagar institutions, which are leaders in developing human resources, with some modulation and change in focus, have now taken up to produce entrepreneurs on a continuous basis, who would be employment generators, there by accelerating  the process of economic development and growth of our country.

 

With the increasing number of graduating students from the institutions, it is our social responsibility and concern to provide them alternate career options. Along with preparing them to be employable, it is also important to develop ‘Job creators’ than ‘Job seekers’. It is therefore necessary to motivate and train young students to take up self employment. Hence the need to promote Entrepreneurship among science, technology and management students. An effort in this direction is the Entrepreneurship development cell.

At DSI-EDC, we are undertaking this role of blending their technical inputs with entrepreneurial and managerial skills and train students for entrepreneurial challenges. Entrepreneurs are not only born, but also made.

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS   v                Dayananda Sagar college of  Engineering, (BE & M.Tech) v                Dayananda Sagar college of management &          Information  Technology ( BBM, BCA, MCA, MBA) v                  Dayananda Sagar college of Life sciences.             (B.Sc & M.Sc Bio-tech & Micro biology.) v               Dayananda Sagar college of Dental Sciences.(BDS)   v               Dayananda Sagar college of Pharmacy.         (D.Pharma &  B.Pharma)   v                Dayananda Sagar college of Arts, Science & Commerce.  (BSc, BA, B.Com)   v                 Dayananda Sagar college of Phisiotherapy. (B.Phisiotherapy)   v                 Dayananda Sagar school of Nursing. (B.Nursing)   v                 Dayananda Sagar institute of Technology.(Diploma)     ORGANIZATION   Chairman, Vice-Chairman & secretaries are our Patrons. The Heads of participating institutions along with experts from R&D, Financial and ED institutitons, Entrepreneurs and alumni form an advisory board. Coordinators from each department/institutions form the managing committee.    OBJECTIVES   v      To expose the students to challenging industrial scenario and highlight the importance of entrepreneurs in the economic growth of the country. v    To induce the spirit of entrepreneurship among the students and also train them to improve their entrepreneurial and managerial competence & skills. v     Industry- institute interaction in the form of training and incubation.   PROPOSED ACTIVITIES   v                  Entrepreneurship awareness programs (EAP): One day program  has been planned covering all the students of the above constituent institutions in their final or pre-final year.   v                  Entrepreneurship development programs (EDP): The students identified to have strong entrepreneurial initiatives and motives are  selected through EAP and/or other ways, and  will be given an intensive training for entrepreneurship through a well designed program.               v                  Specialized skills training for budding entrepreneurs: With the faculty expertise, laboratory and testing facilities available, small entrepreneurs to be trained on certain specified areas.   v                  Innovation center: The students’ projects and other product proposals through R& D are to be analyzed for commercial exploitation and patenting.   v                Business counseling: Weekly business counseling is planned to be organized in all areas of business for interested students of the campus and the alumni who intend to take up self employment as their career options.   v                Business incubation: In the later stages of the EDC project, few alumni as incubates will be given opportunity to start their business ventures making use of the facilities in the campus and later graduate out making way for others. The areas of incubation is to be identified depending up on the facilities and expertise available.   v                Entrepreneurship information center (Library): Project profiles, certain audio visual CDs on ED, details  of net work of entrepreneurship support organizations, books, journals, magazine and newsletters are been collected for dissemination.   v                Community service: Form time to time, the ED cell will plan various    community development activities like Sector specific EDPs, business fairs with product exhibition and sale for women and economically weaker sections of the society.   We seek your suggestions & support