IIT-Gandhinagar to reach out to community
Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is gearing up to promote entrepreneurship at the grassroots level in its neighbourhood. It will do so by cultivating a social entrepreneurial ecosystem among its faculty, staff and students. To develop its outreach entrepreneurship programme, the institute signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with I Create India, a non-profit organization that has been offering entrepreneurship programmes to disadvantaged youth and women since 1999. The MoU was signed by Prof Sudhir K Jain, director of IIT-Gn, and Ulhas Kamat, CEO of I Create India. Following the MoU, I Create India and IIT-Gn conducted an Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP) for the faculty and staff of IIT-Gn as well as Vishwakarma Government Engineering College and Saffrony Institute of Technology. "IIT-Gn believes in being an involved member of the community and a good neighbour. We are constantly looking for ways to engage with and contribute to the local