BITS Pilani Adios to Go Green NEN EWeek

Feb. 15, 2009 - PRLog -- The National Entrepreneurship Network - NEN was co-founded by five premier academic institutions of India today namely BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad, SP Jain Institute, Bombay and IBAB, Bangalore. The Entrepreneurship Week - E Week with the theme "Go Green! The World is our Business" initiated by the non-profit NEN of the Wadhwani Foundation had a target participation from over 400 institutes and 500,000 students across 30 cities during February 7-14 2009.

Stating that when the going gets tough, entrepreneurs get going, the Dean Work Integrated Learning Programmes at Birla Institute of Technology and Science - BITS Pilani, inaugurated the E week 2009 on Saturday 07 Feb 2009 in the Lecture Theatre Complex of the Institute at Pilani.

Highlighting the opportunity evaluation aspects in entrepreneurship, the Dean in his inaugural speech emphasized the fact that a successful entrepreneur needs to acquire Information Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Decision Making Skills, Communication Skills apart from Ability for Time, Stress as well as Project Management and that the BITS System of education gave ample avenues for acquiring the same.

Proud to be BITSian Sunil Handa Chairman, Board of Governors Eklavya Education Foundation, Ahmedabad, Shri VK Desai from Tinytechindia Rajkot and yet another proud to be BITSian Kavikrut who had pioneered Mobilemedics were also present for the inauguration and to mentor the budding entrepreneurs from BITS Pilani.

Dr Arya Kumar Professor Incharge of Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and Dr NVM Rao Dean of Students from BITS Pilani addressed the participating students and urged them to think big, to think different, to break new frontiers and emerge as champions of the E week 2009. Rachit Chandra CEL President administered the pledge to support and build an entrepreneurial India.

The week hosted a variety of events, including a marathon run on Sunday 08 Feb 2009 across the Vidya Vihar campus at Pilani to show commitment for a cleaner and greener environment. Other events included online lecture sessions, movie screenings, debates, blogging, mobile video shootings, T shirt designing competition, etc. Mr Devin from Intellecap had also come for the EWeek ceklebrations. Proud to be BITSian Abhishek Humbad CEO NextGen PMS gave a well attended lecture on carbon credits and carbon footprints.

The concluding session took place in the Engineering Theatre of the Institute on 14 Feb 2009 which happens to be the Valentine's day also. CEL President Rachit Chandra presented the highlights of the Go Green NEN E Week celebrations. This was followed by Elevator pitch presentation of several ideas which included easyMEDreport, Genie, SpicNSpan, StreetAdsite and URJA.

Referring to the clarion call given by renowned scientist and former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam for the mission with passion PURA - Providing Urban amenities in Rural Areas, Prof LK Maheshwari Vice Chancellor BITS Pilani in his concluding remarks pointed out the enormous opportunities available to serve the rural masses in India and urged the BITSians to keep serving the society as foremost in taking up entrepreneurship.

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About BITS Pilani: The Birla Institute of Technology and Science which has the reputation of pioneering the online examinations for admissions through the path breaking BITSAT and setting a bench mark in industry university collaborations is one among the top ranking universities towering above the rest in various best college surveys in India today. Recently it has been accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.71 out of 4 and ranked ‘A' Grade Very Good Status also. BITS offers degrees in various disciplines presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad campuses apart from an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates. The alumni of the Institute who are Proud to be BITSians peaking with Passion Quotient for Alma mater and spread across the globe from Australia to America are the true ambassadors of Brand BITS Pilani.