“REALISING POORNA SWARAJ THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP” O
I am writing to invite you to the fourth seminar on “Realising Poorna Swaraj through Entrepreneurship” on 5th October 2017 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at Seminar Hall 2, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg in New Delhi. The Registrations & Hi-Tea will be from 6:00-6:30 PM followed by the seminar.
This year, as we celebrate Gandhi Jayanti, the context of “Startup India” and “Make In India” emerge aptly to the foreground. How are we, as fellow citizens of this country, enabling complete economic freedom through self-reliance for those in India’s Tier II towns and rural areas? After all, 60% of India’s population resides in them.
Helping rural industries grow and develop, therefore, directly facilitates self-employment, resulting in more economic and industrial activity within rural areas. It also helps utilise locally available resources and labour more effectively. But due to limitations pertaining to land and seasonality, many agricultural outliers migrate to the closest towns and cities for a regular source of livelihood. India’s towns are, in turn, becoming stepping stones for budding entrepreneurs. In fact, they are abuzz with entrepreneurial activity.
But entrepreneurs of small-town- as well as rural enterprises face a few key problems in their ventures:
- Access to Finance: Working capital for raw materials, production trials, quality improvements, etc. is a major challenge. The entrepreneurs may exhaust their own monetary resources at an early stage and may not know which source to tap for further funds, and how to use them judicially.
- Policy Changes: Changing policies also pose a challenge for rural and small-town entrepreneurs as they often come to know about new developments later than their urban compatriots or information about compliance is not easily accessible.
- Education and Cultural Preparedness: In addition, marketing, management (legalities, procurement, etc.), and human resource issues (low skill levels of labour, retaining good talent, and unfavourable opinion about entrepreneurship).
The fourth session of the Ananta-IEF Entrepreneurship series discusses how everyone – whether at the level of policy creation, among corporations, as torch-bearers of community creation, individual entrepreneurs, and media – can reignite this spark of self-reliance in India’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, and help achieve Bapu’s dream of Poorna Swaraj.
Invited panelists include experts from the entrepreneurship ecosystem in India.
We will be glad if you could join us or nominate your colleagues for this interactive seminar on 5thOctober 2017. We shall share the speaker bios and the agenda for the Seminar with you closer to the date after your confirmation.
Best Regards,
Ananta Aspen Centre
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