From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
 
Panaji, Jun 3: The business leaders will tie up with the educational institutes in Goa to train the students to become entrepreneur once they finish with their formal education.
 
State’s leading industrial body, Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in collaboration of Principal’s Forum, Goa and Goa Commerce Association, has drawn an ambitious plan for next three years to teach the teachers how to inculcate entrepreneurship skills amongst the students.
 
The efforts by the academicians and industrial bodies to mould businessmen from the students is a part of initiative by I Create, India, a part of US based I Create, Inc, which has launched Change the Mindset (CMS) programme.
 
I Create India’s Chief Executive Officer Ulhas Kamat, who was present in Goa, said that Change the Mindset (CMS) will promote entrepreneurship amongst college students enabling them to be job creators rather than job seekers.
 
A batch 20-odd teachers were trained in the three-day long programme in the capital city of Panaji, where the preliminaries like drawing business plan were taught to them.
 
Forging a formal tie up, GCCI has decided to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with all the colleges in the state. Chamber President Manguirish Pai Raikar said that by end of this month, they will have a formal understanding with the colleges.
 
“The Chamber in their first step signed an understanding with Panaji-based Dhempe College. “In next few days we will be signing MOUs with all other colleges,” Raikar said.