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National Colloquium at JK-EDI

The Brainstorming Meet of Chairman & CEOs of ED Institutions was organized at Srinagar on 23-24 June, 2011. Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Hon'ble Shri Omar Abdullah inaugurated the first National Colloquium of Chairpersons and Executive Directors of state and national Entrepreneurship Development Institutions on 23 June, 2011. The Colloquium was jointly organized by EDI, Ahmedabad and Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) at Srinagar.

Speaking at the inaugural function the Chief Minister said that this was his fourth visit to JKEDI and is an evidence to how serious they were in recognizing the importance of Entrepreneurship. The Chief Minister felt that entrepreneurship should be popularized in the country so that today's youth deem it as a viable career. Shri Abdullah informed the delegates that his Government was continuously interacting with the JKEDI, Industries and Commerce Department, J&K Bank and various other stakeholders so that they could approve various schemes that are in place. "This way more credit would be made available to the young entrepreneurs and their growth would be facilitated", he opined.

Director, EDI-Ahmedabad, Dr Dinesh Awasthi appreciated the Chief Minister for launching schemes like Sher-e Kashmir Employment and Welfare programme for Youth (SKEWPY). "No other state government has been able to come up with result-oriented schemes like this," said Dr. Awasthi. He also opined that such proven schemes can be replicated in other states and appealed to the banks and financial institutions to play a proactive role and extend support to such initiatives taken by the Government. Dr. Awasthi also proposed to have a common website of all EDIs of the country in order to promote continuous interaction and dialogue.

Director JKEDI M. I. Parray said, "This colloquium is a platform to establish interstate institutional network, develop mutual understanding, learn from each other's mistakes and set future goals. (These days the role of the Government in industrial development is shrinking and role of EDIs is widening," he further added.

The Colloquium was the first-of-its-kind in the country and aimed to draw a road map to strengthen the Entrepreneurship Development Movement in the country and to emphasise on the Indian dimensions of entrepreneurship, interactive entrepreneurship learning approaches and exposure entrepreneurship practices to the world.

The endeavour of the Colloquium was to find out ways to continue strengthening entrepreneurship teaching and research among faculty and educators, and to support various institutions in their role in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.

Referring to the entrepreneurs, the Chief Minister said he wanted the government to facilitate opportunities for entrepreneurship than provide jobs. He said that the mindset that it is only the Government's responsibility to provide employment to youths, must be broken as there is a limit for the government to provide jobs to all. "The government job should be the last resort for youth; they must first consider being a job provider" he said. The Chief Minister informed that J&K government was, therefore, creating a conducive environment to popularise entrepreneurship so as to change the thinking in society and motivate young people to come forward to adopt this career.

Seen during the inaugural function of the National Colloquium is (in the centre) Chief Guest, Mr. Omar Abdullah, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir with (R-L) Dr. Dinesh Awasthi, Director-EDI and Dr. M.I. Parray, Director, JKEDI

Chairmen and Directors of ED Institutions seen with (1st row, 4th from L) Mr. Omar Abdullah, Hon'ble Chief Minister of J&K, (3rd from L)Mr. H. K. Mittal, Advisor, NSTEDB, DST, (5th from L) Dr. Dinesh Awasthi, Director-EDI and (6th from L) Dr. M.I. Parray, Director, JKEDI

Minutes of the Second Annual General Meeting of the Members of Federation of Entrepreneurship Development Institutions (FEDI) held at 08.30 a.m. on Friday, June 24, 2011 at J&K EDI, Srinagar

The second meeting of Federation of Entrepreneurship Development Institutions (FEDI) was held on 24th June 2011 at Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI), Srinagar. As the term of the ex-Chairman got over in 2005, the FEDI Members unanimously elected Dr. Dinesh Awasthi, Director, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad, as Officiating Chairman for the Meeting.

The Chairman welcomed the Members and explained the circumstances under which the FEDI remained dysfunctional during the last 7-8 years. He shared his serious concern over the past happenings and requested the house to decide the fate and future of the FEDI. After detailed deliberations, it was unanimously agreed that we must collectively revive FEDI and take entrepreneurship movement forward, as it is need of the hour.

The following Members were present:

The following members could not attend the meeting and requested leave of absence: